TheBook
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Do you really believe that if it had been two white girls kicking a black girl on the floor the black employees would have just watched?
McDonald's may have a policy about getting involved but I think employees could have at done a little more than watch. Would love to hear McDonald's response.
As someone who has worked retail, non-intervention is drilled into your head on day one in most places. I have seen terrible things happen, from people come into the store and crap on the carpet, to people just stealing things and walking out the door to an outright brawl (J.C. Penny, you so classy).
As an employee, you are never allowed to intervene. Even touching a customer, for any reason, is the highest taboo imaginable.
I think it's ridiculous just to look at the color of these people's skin and assume you entirely understand their motivations. When I saw a white cop beat and taze a black teenager at a McDonald's because he thought she short changed him (she didn't) I didn't think "he's racist" I thought "he's an asshole."