Complaint Filed With McDonald's Claiming Clerk Screamed, Ran From "Little Person"

[Amraann]

Could be, i may be completly Naive here, I just lean more towards the menatlly ill thing than her just being a cold bi**h and being cruel to someone different than her. i could be wrong, I just can't imagine someone being that mean, it happens though.

I am leaning towards her just being an immature jerk.


Quoting your post to SS here...
"What do you expect her to do for a living? yeah, work in the back, ok. SAy she was a cook and took her break, walked thru the lobby smack into the little person? The only thing she can do to avoid people like that is stay home, I doubt she can get a disability check for being afraid of little people.
Little people are everywhere. She cannot avoid them anymore than a racist can avoid black people. What she needs is mental help, not to be cloistered for life."


I think the point is that she should not have taken a job where she is dealing with the public front and center. It would lesson the risk of this.
Certainly she has not spent her entire life cloistered thus far .. Yet we are to believe she has never seen a person suffering dwarfism?
Which BTW IS a recognized disability.
I am just wondering what she would do if someone with downs syndrome walked up to her cash register or someone in a wheel chair wheeled up to the counter?

I don't know if the article gave her age or not but at the very least she is 16 if she is working and I cannot believe she has never seen people who have a disability or even a little person. If nothing else she has seen little people on tv.
Her behavior was just over the top-drama-queen-ridiculous.

Being that dwarfism is a disability I equate this to this man being screamed at the same way I would if it were someone with any other type of disability. Like the disabled do not have enough to over come to try and live a normal life?? I can totally understand why he would feel humiliated and really don't blame him.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

i did not call you out by name on purpose. i do not want to attack anyone but the feelings on this case bother me. my son currently suffers from Tourette's type tics. the dovtor says it may improve with age or he may develope verbal tics also. it scares the hell out of me that he may face the choice of getting sued or staying in the back ground the rest of his life for fear he may blurt out a word that offends someone.

when he is teased for his tics it hurts him and breaks my heart. when a 3 year old innocently ask why he is making faces he explains and feels no ill will towards the child. this cashier did not set out to hurt this man. i have lived 34 years in a city of a million people and can not remember ever meeting someone with this handicap. i am sorry this man was hurt but there was no intent to cause him harm.

I am sorry for the things you have to go through with your son. I do see your point of view and respect you for giving me some insight to your situation. It gives me something to really think about.

I guess because I have a grandson with Autism and another member of my family is a little person, I have a different perspective. On the one hand, I know if my grandson were to blurt something out which was inappropriate he would not mean to do so, but on the other hand...if it were our little person who is only 10yo on the receiving end...I know this could cause so much mental anquish and fear...she might retreat and it would be heartbreaking.

As far as I can tell, the person who created the scene is not a special needs person working at McD's. If this were the case, I am sure the little person would not have taken any action at all...at least, I would hope not.

 

[Amraann]

what a shame that we look at life in such a way. if you have a illness better hope it is physical. if we can see what is wrong with you then we feel pity. if your problem is a mental illness we call names.

I did call her names because I do not agree that she is mentally ill. This is not even a real phobia.
I stick by my drama queen comment.

Like your son I have a son who is not visibly disabled. So I do understand your other post concerning that.
I would never name call someone with a disability of ANY Kind but again I do not believe this girl has any such problem. I just think she is rude.

 

[Paladin]

This is not even a real phobia.

You don't know that. What makes it real? Having a name?

By your logic: once upon a time Autism or Tourrettes weren't real either.

 

[heavenlydaze]

This phobia is called Lollypopguildophobia...and I'm NOT kidding.

"Symptoms 
The other name of midget phobia is Lollypopguildophobia and it is accompanied by several symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, feeling of sickness, vigorous palpitation of the heart, a fear that you may become mad or lose control, a sort of inability to utter words or think clearly. Other symptoms are; occasional shaking, mouth becoming dry, lack of breath, a full blown anxiety attack and extreme perspiration."

http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/midget-phobia.html

Google Lollypopguildophobia. Apparently quite a few people have this fear.

 

[White Rain]

Some sites are calling it khuzdophobia...but I don't think thats a medical term.
I agree with Paladin...just because it doesn't appear to have a medical term doesn't mean it's not real.

 

[philamena]

Lollypopguildophobia....
Ahhhh, named after the little people who sang in the Wizard of Oz.
Personally flying monkeys scare me more.

 

[txsvicki]

Maybe another reason McDonalds is being sued is because the franchise OFFICE compared the little person to a spider or snake. I may be wrong, but I take this to mean some type of district headquarter office.

 

[Amraann]

You don't know that. What makes it real? Having a name?

By your logic: once upon a time Autism or Tourrettes weren't real either.

Point taken ... But! Even then when there was no label people understood that someone was just "off"

I have read nothing to indicate this in this case.

 

[Texana]

Lollypopguildophobia....
Ahhhh, named after the little people who sang in the Wizard of Oz.
Personally flying monkeys scare me more.

My older daughter can't stand to even hear "ow we oh, ohhhh we, oh..." sung to her." So we sing it a lot.

Seriously, if you have phobias about how people look, you can't be in customer service. It's a job, not a right.

I'm freaked out by heights and air travel, you don't see ME getting a job as flight attendant and then screaming "We're all gonna die" when the plane takes off, do you?

 

[philamena]

My older daughter can't stand to even hear "ow we oh, ohhhh we, oh..." sung to her." So we sing it a lot.

Seriously, if you have phobias about how people look, you can't be in customer service. It's a job, not a right.

I'm freaked out by heights and air travel, you don't see ME getting a job as flight attendant and then screaming "We're all gonna die" when the plane takes off, do you?

you cracked me up. Good points about working in customer service Texana.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

My older daughter can't stand to even hear "ow we oh, ohhhh we, oh..." sung to her." So we sing it a lot.

Seriously, if you have phobias about how people look, you can't be in customer service. It's a job, not a right.

I'm freaked out by heights and air travel, you don't see ME getting a job as flight attendant and then screaming "We're all gonna die" when the plane takes off, do you?

ROFLMAO Good point!

 

[SeriouslySearching]

This phobia is called Lollypopguildophobia...and I'm NOT kidding.

"Symptoms 
The other name of midget phobia is Lollypopguildophobia and it is accompanied by several symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, feeling of sickness, vigorous palpitation of the heart, a fear that you may become mad or lose control, a sort of inability to utter words or think clearly. Other symptoms are; occasional shaking, mouth becoming dry, lack of breath, a full blown anxiety attack and extreme perspiration."

http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/midget-phobia.html

Google Lollypopguildophobia. Apparently quite a few people have this fear.

Hmmmm...I don't see a thing about screaming like a Banshee and running for their life.

 

[i.b.nora]

I would like to point out that NOWHERE in the original article does it say that Ethan Wade is/was filing a lawsuit. What it said was that he had filed a complaint with McDonald's.
In a more recent article, he further explains the incident and talks about what he hopes to achieve. It's well worth reading.

Little Person Says Clerk Screamed, Ran From Him

 

[southcitymom]

I would like to point out that NOWHERE in the original article does it say that Ethan Wade is/was filing a lawsuit. What it said was that he had filed a complaint with McDonald's.
In a more recent article, he further explains the incident and talks about what he hopes to achieve. It's well worth reading.

Little Person Says Clerk Screamed, Ran From Him

Great article. If you are going to deal in a service capacity with the public at large, you have to be able to deal with the public at large. If I were this person's manager, I'd probably let them go.

 

[Amraann]

You don't know that. What makes it real? Having a name?

By your logic: once upon a time Autism or Tourrettes weren't real either.

Having a DR makes it a real phobia. Once upon a time autism and tourettes were REAL just not named and/or spoken of.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

If he only filed a complaint...why are we arguing? ROFLMAO Well, I guess at least we know what our thoughts are on the subjects of screaming...possibly phobic or just plain rude...people vs. little people now...so if it ever comes up we don't even have to discuss it.

 

[Paladin]

Having a DR makes it a real phobia. Once upon a time autism and tourettes were REAL just not named and/or spoken of.

Maybe this girl should get a DR then to study her claim.

 

[GlitchWizard]

Great article. If you are going to deal in a service capacity with the public at large, you have to be able to deal with the public at large. If I were this person's manager, I'd probably let them go.

I snickered at "Public at Large" since this clearly wasn't the case.

I sentence the worker to read Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who and then write "A person's a person, no matter how small" a thousand times on an old fashioned chalkboard.

 

[Mr. E]

This happened near where I live, and I think it's ridiculus. I agree with the complaintant. No matter what the woman's phobia is, she shouldn't have reacted like that. It was embarrassing for the little person, I'm sure. I have a phobia of spiders, but I have enough sense not to freak out when I see one in a public place. She (the employee) sounds like an idiot, and the restaurant deserves anything that comes at them.

What if she did that to a person of color? Or a person in a wheelchair? Would people be so forgiving then?