Playing the Victim "Waitress Says She Was Fired For Tea Party Bracelet"

Is it me or does it always seem like tea party folk are always the quickest to play the "victim" card?

chicago.cbslocal.com...

A Crystal Lake waitress says she lost her job because she wore a Tea Party bracelet to work.

Geller tells the newspaper a couple she was serving at the local Outback Steakhouse took offense and complained.

Of course that HAD to be the reason she was fired right? The poor little tea party victimized again for it's beliefs... right?

Just a reminder - Outback Steakhouse is a big supporter of the Republican Party! They'v even got their own PAC!

en.wikipedia.org...

Do you really think they will fire an open supporter of the tea party?

Company officials tell a different story. They say Geller was inattentive to diners at two tables and say that if the bracelet had been a problem, managers would have told her to remove it, the newspaper reported.

Ooops.

So the lesson here for tea party folks - go ahead and slack off at your job - you can always just blame some random/imaginary customer for disagreeing with your politics if you get fired. Typical tea party "i'm the victim" politics!

Originally posted by negativenihil
Is it me or does it always seem like tea party folk are always the quickest to play the "victim" card?

chicago.cbslocal.com...

A Crystal Lake waitress says she lost her job because she wore a Tea Party bracelet to work.

Geller tells the newspaper a couple she was serving at the local Outback Steakhouse took offense and complained.

Of course that HAD to be the reason she was fired right? The poor little tea party victimized again for it's beliefs... right?

Just a reminder - Outback Steakhouse is a big supporter of the Republican Party! They'v even got their own PAC!

en.wikipedia.org...

Do you really think they will fire an open supporter of the tea party?

Company officials tell a different story. They say Geller was inattentive to diners at two tables and say that if the bracelet had been a problem, managers would have told her to remove it, the newspaper reported.

Ooops.

So the lesson here for tea party folks - go ahead and slack off at your job - you can always just blame some random/imaginary customer for disagreeing with your politics if you get fired. Typical tea party "i'm the victim" politics!

edit on 16-11-2011 by negativenihil because: (no reason given)

Tea Partiers play the "victim" card the most? No. I can think of several examples, but would probably offend people playing the "victim" card, perhaps you.

Originally posted by capone1
I can think of several examples, but would probably offend people playing the "victim" card, perhaps you.

Son,

Its this sort of lazy attitude that really makes me think less of the right wing trolls around here. Instead of threatening to offend me, why don't you just give it the ol' college try?

In any case, the tea party has a history of playing the victim card.

www.cbsnews.com...
videocafe.crooksandliars.com...

If all the tea party bigwigs can do it, why not the average joe teaparty?

reply to post by negativenihil

You're joking right? A waitress gets canned for wearing jewelry at work which offends others and it's worth pouncing on to make a statement about the entire Tea Party Movement? I read through your threads.. I get it. You hate the tea party with a passion bordering on disturbing. How is this situation even remotely relevant to TTP as a movement though?

Now..If she were raping, assaulting, attacking police or destroying public property...we'd all be told ad naseum how whatever group she belonged to while doing that could never be tainted by the behavior of one goober. However, it's the Tea Party in this case....so one person's behavior is perfectly valid for bashing millions, right? Oy Vey...

reply to post by negativenihil


I think its you. If you read beyond the words "Tea Party" you may have found the following in the original article

Documents from the Illinois Department of Employment Security provided by Geller state that she was fired for misconduct, but she should not have been denied unemployment benefits.

"The evidence shows the claimant was discharged from [Outback Steakhouse] because they received a couple complaints from customers since she was wearing a bracelet with a political point of view," according to documents from the state agency. "Since the claimant's action, which resulted in her discharge was not deliberate or willful, the claimant is not ineligible for benefits."

Outback did not challenge Geller's unemployment claim, or submit any information regarding her claim, Kadow said.

www.nwherald.com...

That's from the official report that went unchallenged by Outback. Beyond that its merely assumptions and I could assume plenty about the potential political leanings of the manager, the complaining customers etc etc.

All things are possible in our politically correct realm. Just like the school that ordered students to turn their American Flag T-shirts inside out on Cinco de Mayo.

So, based on the report it may appear that she was dismissed for wearing her politics on her wrist.

Bias much??

This has nothing to do with the Tea Party except for the this girl is using that as the excuse. People have, since the beginning of time, always placed blame on others if they are fired from a job. This is nothing new at all. I have heard excuses that range from "I wouldn't date him/have sex with him so he fired me" all the way to "he didn't like my hair color".

I once had to fire someone who refused to come to work one day because it was raining outside (we worked indoors). Of course when she told her story, she wasn't fired for refusing to come to work, she as fired because she would not kiss my butt and flirt with me like other girls do.

To paint everyone in the Tea Party with such a broad brush because one person used it as an excuse for being fired is... well... pathetic really.

reply to post by Wrabbit2000


You're absolutely right.

But it does in fact happen on both sides.

There's been a lot of juvenile bs posts that are only designed to make the other side look bad.

And it's also true that lately it's been more those posting against OWS that does it.. and hmm.. mostly people who support tea party...

Go figure.

So.. you were saying again? Something about a goose? Or was it a gander? The rhetoric is deafening ...

reply to post by Wrabbit2000


There is a clear trend among the tea party loyal and the leadership to ALWAYS resort to the victim card when they've been found doing something wrong.

So yes, this is my own observation of the tea party movement as a whole.

Look, I know it stings to read anti-right wing stuff here on ATS, or heck anything liberal here on ATS - but it's high time the right wing got use to it going in both directions. Don't worry... in the time it's taken you to read this reply, i'm sure several fresh pro-tea party threads and posts have been made.

(Also - Thanks for digging through my post history - i always love when people do that! )

reply to post by jibeho


Yet still.. in your own link:

"Megan Gellar was not let go because of her tea party bracelet," Kadow said in a statement to the Northwest Herald. "On the night in question two separate tables complained about her lack of attention."

You seriously want me to believe a right wing company such as Outback Steakhouse would fire someone over openly supporting the tea party?

i would fire her for the bracelet too but this a is a right to work state and i could get away with it thanks to another stupid republican law

Originally posted by negativenihil
Is it me or does it always seem like tea party folk are always the quickest to play the "victim" card?

Yes, it is you. I can give you two examples immediately, which you can not deny. And, they've pretty much created an industry around the "victim card".

Jesse Jackson. Al Sharpton.

Originally posted by negativenihil
reply to post by jibeho

 

Yet still.. in your own link:

"Megan Gellar was not let go because of her tea party bracelet," Kadow said in a statement to the Northwest Herald. "On the night in question two separate tables complained about her lack of attention."

You seriously want me to believe a right wing company such as Outback Steakhouse would fire someone over openly supporting the tea party?

You might want to add that to the official report that I cited Other than that its just he said she said in a case like this. Please ask Outback to refute the statement in the report as well. As of now they have not...

Was it the corporate office that fired a store level server or was it the store manager? Hmmm?

Originally posted by negativenihil
Is it me or does it always seem like tea party folk are always the quickest to play the "victim" card?

It's you. Liberals are certainly the quickest to play the victim card.

reply to post by WTFover


I don't know about Jesse.. But I'm pretty sure Rev Al plays another type of card

Just sayin

Originally posted by WTFover

Yes, it is you. I can give you two examples immediately, which you can not deny. And, they've pretty much created an industry around the "victim card".

Jesse Jackson. Al Sharpton.

Bwahahahaha - and right back at you -

Sara Palin. Michele Bachmann. Two biggest offenders who both have far more weight in the political system that either Jackson or Sharpton.

Originally posted by negativenihil
reply to post by Wrabbit2000

 

There is a clear trend among the tea party loyal and the leadership to ALWAYS resort to the victim card when they've been found doing something wrong.

So yes, this is my own observation of the tea party movement as a whole.

Look, I know it stings to read anti-right wing stuff here on ATS, or heck anything liberal here on ATS - but it's high time the right wing got use to it going in both directions. Don't worry... in the time it's taken you to read this reply, i'm sure several fresh pro-tea party threads and posts have been made.

(Also - Thanks for digging through my post history - i always love when people do that!

)

You are amazing! I never thought it could be done - but here you are and YOU DID IT!!! You started with a hasty generalization, into a non-sequitur, made a red herring while also commiting a straw man. That is incredible! I always knew that liberals were the best at creating fallacious arguments and having the inability to employ logic, but YOU my friend, have taken it to new heights! Congratulations, all of the other mouth-breathing liberals of the world will worship you.

Originally posted by pez1975
i would fire her for the bracelet too but this a is a right to work state and i could get away with it thanks to another stupid republican law

Another clueless liberal! "Right to work" is a LIBERAL law - it is EMPLOYEE friendly. "Employment at will" is a Conservative law - it is business friendly. They can fire you at any time for any reason, or no reason at all.

I bet you are suprised to learn that you hardor such deep conservative values. Either that or you are a raging hypocrite.

Originally posted by negativenihil

Originally posted by WTFover

Yes, it is you. I can give you two examples immediately, which you can not deny. And, they've pretty much created an industry around the "victim card".

Jesse Jackson. Al Sharpton.

Bwahahahaha - and right back at you -

Sara Palin. Michele Bachmann. Two biggest offenders who both have far more weight in the political system that either Jackson or Sharpton.

I would LOVE to see some examples of Palin or bachman playing the "Victim" card. Thanks.

Originally posted by negativenihil
reply to post by jibeho

 

Yet still.. in your own link:

"Megan Gellar was not let go because of her tea party bracelet," Kadow said in a statement to the Northwest Herald. "On the night in question two separate tables complained about her lack of attention."

You seriously want me to believe a right wing company such as Outback Steakhouse would fire someone over openly supporting the tea party?

Actually yes. Because it would not be a company firing the girl ,it would be a manager. Managers generally do not give a crap about politics, sex, race, or anything else. They care about profits and making money. If customers are complaining...regardless of what they are complaining about, your done. End of story.

However, I agree with only one point you make. This girl is playing the victim.

That being said, I totally disagree with your association between this incident and the Tea Party. Young people have made excuses and placed blame on employers for being fired since the beginning of time. This whole, "Poor me poor me, it is my fault I got fired, I am a victim" attitude has NOTHING at all to do with Tea Party, House Party, Democrat, Republican, left wing, right wing, chicken wings.. none of it has any relevance at all. This is a clear case of Human Nature and people's unwillingness to accept responsibility for their own actions.