Posted on 12/15/2007 1:02:52 PM PST by RDTF
"I felt embarrassed. I'm over here accepting my disability in public and you are going to mock and harass me."
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Dillards ? we won’t be satisfied with just a apology, fire the manager who is responsible for this hate crime, and make it known publicly that you DO NOT hold his liberal political views.
Where?
I wished I lived near a Dillard’s, I would protest until they took me away... people should know how they treated this vet.
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IMHO, I don't think its "Militant Employees" so much as it is just plain ignorance and lack of common sense on the part of stupid employees. To blame Dillard's or whomever is a stretch and at least the manager did call to apologize........
Class Action law suite in the making
I do live near a dillards.
Here is what I plan to do:
Go there on a busy holiday shopping day,load a cart with everything it will hold. Lots of small expensive items, from numerous areas of the store. Pick the busiest register.
Delay the heck out of the cashier, asking/arguing about prices on each item. If when they finally get to the total price, I will inform them that I have changed my mind. Then I will walk out the door. Repeat as necessary or until I’m banned from the store...
LOL
? to cover his/her and Dillard's a*s after he/she was ordered to call by the higher up who know this will pinch their pocketbooks...
To me, that's a 'no apology apology" aka, an apology of convenience
That is exactly what I did 2 years ago after going to a WalMart and realizing there was no Christmas music or any other recognition of Christmas - and after talking with the manager who said they didn’t want to “offend” anyone - I did what you proposed = leaving them with “I am offended that I should be expected to spend my Christmas money in a store that feels “Christmas” is offensive...
I guess I wasn't the only one who let the mighty WalMart know this was unacceptable - they now 'allow' Christmas and even the Salvation Army red kettles out front
All that is needed to reverse most offensive trends is for us to speak up loudly, often and clearly - or we have not right to complain
And you, being THE manager of the store after hearing about the incident from secondhand sources, aka the media, would have done what? And since all you have to rely on is what you have read in the posted article, what other action may have been taken by that manager that wasn't reported?
Or do you have all inclusive information that you would like to provide the rest of us FReepers that proves that Dillard's is nothing more than a military hating, Chinese goods importing, societal leech?
I used the word ‘militant’ to describe their action not their beliefs. I would agree it is ‘stupid’ or ‘immature’ employees with little experience handling the authority they have. The worst thing is you have some who are adults who don’t understand that administration does not mean blind enforcement of rules. If that was all that was required then why pay anyone to do it. Hook up a computer, program the rules and let it make the decisions. It would be cheaper.
RDTF,
I had planned on making a Christmas gift purchase this week at our northside KC Dillards. I wont. I wrote them a polite but nastygram this afternoon thru their website Dillards.com (contact us). Let’s see if they give an adequate response. One can only hope they’ve learned a hard lesson.
Send them to
Alex Gonzalez, Vet & His Dog
in care of:
DILLARDS
Northeast Mall
1101 Melbourne Road
Hurst, TX 76053
(Phone: 817-284-4566
Fax: 817-590-3909)
..
That would send a BIG message.
Cruel.
Rush is all seeing.
My SIL was refused service at a hotel in MO in 2004 when vacationing...She’s blind, and used a golden retriever guide dog. It amazes me the ignorance of the law that’s still out there.
Rush is the all seeing and all knowing Maha Rushie
Why don’t you take your ire out on the store manager that did this instead of wasting time and effort of people that had nothing to do with it?
Do you think that if one freeper screwed up it should be open season on all freepers?
Golly gee, I just was thinking they were dumb - and I wasn't speaking for all Freepers, as you apparently have license to do.
talk about exptapolating out of thin air
someone needs a chill pill
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