Texas waitress quits 'dream job' at Hooters over racist bullying from giggling white family

[turbinetree]

MARTIN CIZMAR
15 AUG 2018 AT 08:28 ET

A Texas woman quit her “dream job” as a Hooters waitress after racial abuse was written on a receipt by a customer, reports the Times Record News.

Elina Blackstock, 22, is from Tokyo and was working at the wing restaurant in Wichita Falls until Monday, when she quit after getting a 70 cent tip on a $70 meal with the misspelled word “jaundice” written on it. The term is a slur for Asian Americans.


“The fact that they made a comment on my race, my skin tone, that really hurt me so bad,” she said in a video interview with the Times Record News. “Because if they said I was a bad server, and they made a comment about it, I could change that, I could fix it. But when they mention my skin tone there’s no way I can fix that, because I was born with it.”

Blackstock said the table, which was a white family, had been rude and mocked her for being Asian.

“Get a different job damn jandice [sic],” was written on the receipt.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/texas-waitress-quits-dream-job-hooters-racist-bullying-giggling-white-family/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. I love how three generations of the family are banned from the restaurant.

[dalton99a]

2. "grandparents, parents and a grandson" - a family tradition of racism:

https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2018/08/14/hooters-girl-left-my-dream-job-because-customers-rudeness-racism/992804002/
Hooters waitress quits over alleged racial slur
Trish Choate, For the Times Record News
Published 4:58 p.m. CT Aug. 14, 2018 | Updated 5:56 p.m. CT Aug. 14, 2018

[Major Nikon]

3. The nut doesn't fall far from the tree

[Turbineguy]

4. The Bank

The restaurant could send the receipt to the credit card issuer. "Do you want customers like this?"

[unblock]

5. again, another group of bigots manages to get through a whole meal first, then skimps on the tip.

if you're gonna be a bigot, be a bigot as soon as the server comes over and just ask for a different server.

if you're gonna accept service, then tip properly and don't abuse the server.


while there's obviously bigotry involved, there's also a big dose of cheapskate in this as well.
had they asked for a different server, they would have had no excuse not to tip properly.

this way they have an excuse (albeit a heinous one) to undertip.

[Merlot]

6. She quit. She gave in to racist bullies and they won.

“Get a different job damn jandice [sic],” was written on the receipt.

And this is why I hate the tipping system. Pay servers a real wage instead of having diners subsidie the owners bottom line. It's not going to hurt a mega chain like hooters.

[Afromania]

7. Great, another word weaponized by a certain segment of the non pigmented to demean folks unlike them