Have you ever experienced discrimination as a customer or salesperson?

Question

Have any of you ever experienced discrimination as a customer by salespeople or service in general? Or have any of you ever experienced discrimination as a salesperson/cashier-clerk by a customer? If so tell me what happened and what did you do about it?

I am mixed 19 year old Puerto Rican/Italian-Irish & I remember going into Motor Vehicles for my driving test last year. The man, who was white and mostly likely of Anglo-descent; got extremely impatient when I tried to explain something that I forgot. He wound up making a comment that if I spoke actual English I would know what I was doing, & then deliberately failed me although I had done everything right. However, I have experienced discrimination as a customer most often from hispanics, especially ones around my age because they have a problem with interracial people (latin-white mixed) and people they deem "too white" for them (but they'll be all nice to spanish speakers and blacks to the point where it sounds fake). It irritates me because I may be mixed race, light skinned, whatever, but I have a right to good service too.

I live in NJ, and I can also say many of the Indians (from East-India), are extremely rude when it comes to service, especially the younger males, who will give you bad looks right to your face and sometimes not even help you. I have had plenty of incidents revolving around that as well.

As a clerk though, I'd have to say its the whites that most often discriminate, they get mad if they see my PR flag-themed keychain (because they think everyone should be like them), & often they don't hand you the money (they fling it on the counter). They also will try and tell me ethnic jokes about people of other races (because they stupidly assume that I am "white") or comment about them & it pisses me off they can actually assume that not only am I one of them, but that I think and behave like that too.

Answer 1

Yes, I never will forget one Christmas season I went to Marshall fields to get my grandmother her favorite perfume set from the Estee Lauder counter. I was dressed in construction clothes, jean overalls, bandanna, long john shirt, a little dusty. I didn't look like an upper class lady. The set cost about $150 to $200. The person behind the counter waited on everyone but me. Finally when no one else was around, she said sort of snobby and with an edge, "Can I help You", I immediately told her no, but her manager could. When she brought her manager I told them how everyone else was waited on before I, even though I was there before others. I pulled out a wad of bills, telling how I wanted to buy a gift set for my grandmother. I asked is my money not green like everyone Else's, and I guess the person did not want her commission from selling a nicely priced gift set. The manager apologized to me, helped me, even gave me a bottle of my favorite perfume free. I know I was a little dusty. I am also mixed race. So I did not know if it was being not dressed right or racial. Either way it was not appropriate behavior for a sales person.

Answer 2

I'll never forget this one shop that I took my car to for inspection. After keeping my car for 1 1/2 hours they told me the couldn't inspect it. Why? Your engine leak (minor oil leak) will destroy our emissions testing machine (dynomometer). They told me that I must have my engine overhauled to stop the leak before any shop will inspect it. I think they told me that because they thought I was a stupid female who doesn't know anything about cars. The car in question is a 1985 Volvo 240 DL sedan, rear wheel drive. On a dynomometer, the driving wheels are placed on the machine. In this case they put the front wheels on the machine instead of the rear wheels.
What did I do? I told them.... If you had actually cranked up that machine with my car on it that you would have been buying me another vehicle because it would have crashed into the brick wall. Why? Because you think all Volvos are front wheel drive. If you had actually paid attention you would have realized my car is rear wheel drive. btw...I'm not stupid enough to believe that a minor oil leak means that my car's engine must be overhauled, but if it smoked heavily when driving which it does not then it might warrant investigating. Maybe you should pay attention to vehicle you are going to inspect before rejecting it.
At that point a couple more people came in to get their cars inspected. I told them that these people don't know which end of the car belongs on the dynomometer so they should get their cars inspected elsewhere. I took my car elsewhere. This shop went out of business 3 years later.

Answer 3

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