Restaurant Owner Obliterates Customer Who Said Woman's Death Ruined Her New Years

[LiberalArkie]

Working in the service industry can really be a test, as you will eventually and inevitably come in contact with an impossibly difficult, insensitive customer that makes you question your faith in humanity. And if you haven’t worked in the service industry,this story about a customer named Holly Jones will give you a pretty good idea of what a complete nightmare of a customer looks like.

For New Year’s Eve, Jones visited Kilroy’s Bar N’Grill in Indianapolis, Indiana – an experience that left her less than satisfied. Jones said that she and her party’s experience was “ruined” due to the fact that she had to witness a “dead person be wheeled out from an overdose.” And of course, because of this “dead person,” her table didn’t get the attention she felt entitled to. Jones was so upset, that she took to Kilroy’s Facebook page to blast the restaurant for making her holiday celebration so awful. She wrote:

“I will never go back to this location for New Year’s Eve!!! After the way we were treated when we spent 700+ and having our meal ruined by watching a dead person being wheeled out from an overdose my night has been ruined!!! Every year we have come to Kilroys to enjoy New Years Eve and tonight we were screamed at and had the manager walk away from use while (we) were trying to figure out our bill being messed up.

The manager also told us someone dying was more important than us being there making us feel like our business didn’t matter, but I guess allowing a Junkie in the building to overdose on your property is more important than paying customers who are spending a lot of money!! Our waitress when we were trying to ask about our bill being messed up also said “what do you want me to do (expletive) pay your bill for you?” What a great way to talk to a paying customer! I get that working on New Years Eve (is) stressful but being a complete (expletive) to us all night knowing you get an automatic gratuity is not right!!!”

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http://www.newsforage.com/2016/01/restaurant-owner-obliterates-customer.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. Thought my sister was living in NY. nt

[tammywammy]

2. Good on that owner

That customer is an insensitive and cold hearted person.

[Oneironaut]

3. Tasteless. She's a jerk, but

these articles have no other purpose than being a rallying cry for Internet miscreants who are looking for the next life to ruin. Usually they act in a way that is just as tasteless. "That person was a jerk. Let's get them fired from their job, harass them and their family, and send them death threats" is not a rational response to someone simply acting like a jerk.

[roguevalley]

6. the extremity of some who might respond I agree with but

putting such a assinine spew on the internet invites its own response. She could have ruined a business with the lies and if she thinks her fucking ass is worth more than some older person having a heart attack (no drugs, an old lady having a heart attack) then f her. She should have whined to her mama.

[LisaL]

20. While I agree, I really have no clue what can be done about it.

[trotsky]

4. I do feel some sympathy for people who post stupid, insensitive things on social media.

The resulting reaction is so often way overboard, like here. Or with the PR person who posted the stupid tweet about "Hope I don't get AIDS" when she was flying to Africa. By the time the plane lands, she's fired and her life is ruined. Yes it's good to see insensitive clods get their comeuppance, but their lives shattered? Public shaming taken to a global level for one stupid mistake. I don't like it.

[roguevalley]

7. I would have fired her if she worked for me. The rest is on her. People know how rotten the

internet is. Don't post.

[LanternWaste]

10. I used to dislike the public consequences of what I said in the public arena too.

I used to dislike the public consequences of what I said in the public arena too.

[Initech]

12. This is exactly why I don't post personal BS on social media.

Don't want to do anything that could get me fired, arrested, or worse.

[Logical]

19. I see no issue with this. nt

[melman]

5. Yeah

This internet vigilantism really bothers me, and I think the restaurant manager comes off like a grandstanding dick. Why should this woman's life be ruined for posting something shitty on FB? What does anyone gain from that?

[madinmaryland]

22. On the other hand, why should the restaurant owner and a patron of the restaurant who DIED, get

smeared by some clueless douchebag. They did nothing wrong, yet some self-centered asshole decides to make up bullshit and smear someone who is completely innocent.

I bet the self-centered asshole was also under the influence of alcohol.

Think about it. What goes around, comes around.

[roguevalley]

8. I personally think she bears the responsibility. SHE posted the shit. SHE LIED with her telling. He

corrected the record. A woman had a heart attack, she wasn't a drug addict overdosing. She lied and whined how her little feelings were more important than a woman on death's door. I personally put the blame for this stuff directly on the POSTER. If they didn't post this kind of thing they wouldn't suffer the consequences. The internet is rotten. She had to know that and she put her piece of crap out too. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

[trotsky]

11. Well I don't know if she "lied," she was just wrong. Jumped to conclusions.

I don't have any problem with people like that getting put in their place. It was a horrible, self-centered thing for her to post. But to have one's life forever ruined for one stupid mistake? Seems ridiculous to me.

[displacedtexan]

16. I'm sure you were taught the same thing I was...

"Never put it in writing!"

Especially in cyberspace. It's out there. Forever. And ever.

I live down the street from the Internet Archive. Trust me, it really is out there forever.

[LisaL]

18. Even if there were a junkie overdosing, junkie is still human.

It would presumably be more important to help the overdosing junkie than to deal with some error on the bill.

[KamaAina]

9. "I guess allowing a Junkie in the building to overdose on your property is more important"

Might the unfortunate woman have been African American, by any chance?

[cwydro]

13. No, I think it was an older white woman.

Appeared to be in the pic I saw anyway.

[lpbk2713]

14. She's alive and recovering.

Link: https://www.gofundme.com/xvhdjjwk

[Shandris]

15. Sorry about that everyone, we normally don't let the rabid ones out of Carmel. How this one...

...slipped out is beyond me. The gated communities exit onto regular roads, and I wasn't aware the Carmelites had managed to discover the requisite intelligence required to obtain a GPS system or hired driver to handle the horrible inconvenience of regular roads used by the plebians. I'll inform the Department of Carmelite Tracking and let them know one managed to escape somehow.

[Odin2005]

17. What a narcissistic POS.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

21. Holly "Jones"

Uh huh.

[GReedDiamond]

23. I was in a brew pub a couple of months ago...

...when a man who was returning to his table, directly behind me, suddenly collapsed onto the hard tile floor, right next to me as I sat in the booth with some friends.

He was lying motionless on the floor, inches from my feet, face up, eyes wide open, but totally unresponsive.

It was extremely disconcerting, and, as one may imagine, very disruptive to having a "good time" swilling beers, eating, and engaging in happy talk with my friends.

It took about fifteen minutes for paramedics to show up and wheel the stricken man out of the place on a gurney. During that time, all normal operations ceased as the staff and the man's family/friends tried to revive him. It really did kinda ruin the night for us, and every time I go back there, I am reminded of this poor guy, staring blankly up at me from the floor.

However, it never occurred to me to go to the internet and post about how the night was ruined because some poor dude was having a catastrophic medical emergency. It also never occurred to me to blame the brew pub people for ruining our "fun" night out, and it really especially never occurred to me to jump to the conclusion that the man on the floor was a "junkie" or some such thing.

The woman in this story is obviously a spoiled rotten ahole, unable to feel any empathy for anyone else, a self-absorbed twit. Hopefully she will gain a little humanity from being shamed for her ridiculous response to a devastating and unfortunate medical emergency that happened to a fellow human being.

[AwakeAtLast]

24. She lost her job

And the hair salon she worked for donated $ to the grieving family (per Indy Star).