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A college student from University of Georgia, Sahar Sabet went to the Apple store to purchase an iPad. The sales associate turned her away after the customer was heard speaking Farsi to her uncle.
The sales associate told the uncle that he could not sell to them because 'Our countries have bad relations.' Ms. Sabet is a U.S. citizen.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/326950
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)hlthe2b
(102,276 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 19, 2012, 12:32 PM - Edit history (1)
a well reported story that the national ticket sales office had told callers from New Mexico that they would have to call back on the INTERNATIONAL line.
My sympathy to our lovely DUers from Atlanta, but I lived there in the past... There truly are a lot of stupid RWers there... yes, we have our share where I live too, but....
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)He went into the hotel cafe one morning and ordered an espresso, only to be told that they didn't serve alcoholic beverages.
hlthe2b
(102,276 posts)Response to apples and oranges (Original post)
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malthaussen
(17,195 posts)The late proprietor of one of Philadelphia's most famous steak sandwich purveyors had a sign in his window that said "We only take orders in English" or some such. This, in a neighborhood famously Italian, where he and most of the white population were only two or three steps from the Old Country. And I don't believe he saw the irony.
It does sound like someone in the local Apple command structure at Atlanta has been pushing his personal agenda. Hopefully he will be found and fired, but I doubt we'll ever hear anything about it.
-- Mal
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)What an absurd OP
marmar
(77,080 posts)........ perhaps you should try reading again.
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)........ perhaps you should try reading again.
marmar
(77,080 posts)..... in Farsi. Do you have a problem with someone speaking in Farsi to someone who speaks Farsi? Or is that to un-Murkan for you?
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)I don't know about you, but my untrained ear is not going to be able to tell Farsi from a host of other languages I don't speak.
petronius
(26,602 posts)reason to think he didn't ask what the language was and where it was spoken.
Sounds like the employee had an extremely screwed-up understanding of export restrictions and who/what they apply to, to go along with some (at best subconscious) biases...
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)This absolutely sounds like the actions of an individual employee.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)not only recognized Farsi, but knew in which countries it was spoken.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)if in actuality they had been speaking a Native American dialect.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)and not arabic or "iranian".
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)the actual country that we have so many concerns with (and that builds all those i-whatevers) but not with Iranian individuals who haven't really done anything.
Gotcha.