Garda who said ‘smirking’ waitress asked him to leave table before he finished meal loses discrimination case

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  1. Man who was (allegedly, at the very most) smiled at by a rude teenager attempts to take a discrimination case:

    The fact that this even got as far as a WRC hearing is indicative of how utterly *fucked* this country has become in terms of ludicrous claims being given airtime (and often monetary awards!)

  2. Thin skin for a Garda. Teenager smirked at him. FFS.

    You’d think he would hr more upset they had no heating in their room for their holiday

  3. Pathetic. Sounds like someone didnt like being on the underside of slight authority, whether real or just perceived that way, and then tried to destroy the other persons life for such an egregious act.

    I get people can react poorly on the spot, having a bad day, still working on being an asshole, that kind of thing, but to pursue it this far is kinda disturbing. Wonderful he lost but I someone with no shame whatsoever will likely try something else.

  4. Was a manager in a restaurant and I would wear a server’s uniform when serving tables.

    Family came in one evening (both parents were guards, with their young son)

    They were the only ones in at 5.30pm on a Tuesday.
    I was there on my own and serving them myself.

    Made their drinks, made small talk, delivered food, checked on them, took away clean plates, they thanked me, paid and left.

    20 minutes later an email came in addressed to the manager (me) complaining that they had been left waiting for 20 minutes before being approached by anyone (lie). Left waiting another 20 minutes for drinks (lie). Server was rude and insulting (lie) and they’d never come back.

    I replied asking if they were sure they were talking about their visit to my restaurant as I served them and it didn’t reflect what I had done.

    Called me a liar and wanted the owner.

    Instead I forwarded the cctv footage.

    Completely contradicting everything they had just said.

    They were neighbours of the owner.

    Two grown up officers of the law for some reason acting like spoiled brats.

  5. I am confused about the raceism element. Are their many non Irish national Irish cops. I’ve never met any. I’ve never even met one that wasn’t white.

    The Irish language requirement is a major barrier to recruitment for non Irish nationals.

    So I can’t imagine she would have any real way of knowing he was not an “Irish national”. I bet he was quick to tell her he was a cop

    And why they were asked to leave

    Whole thing sounds made up to me.

  6. He probably deserved the refund considering the problem with heating everything after that is pulling the piss.

    Cops are notorious for not wanting to pay for certain things or trying to use the badge to get something.

  7. I once worked as a labourer for a park. We had a couple of people working there on some sort of government scheme. I assumed they were two people trying to get back into the workforce. I did not know that one of them was a former garda trying to fatten his pension.

    Anyways, one day at lunch time, the radio was talking about drunk drivers. I made an offhand comment about it being known that gardai drink drive and get away with it cos of their position. It seemed like I was the only one in the dark about the former garda in our midst; everyone else was cringing.

    I was later told he was a former garda. I was also told he was asking for my address. I have no idea what he was going to do with it but I assume it wasn’t to send me a Christmas card.

    We have to do something about the fact the law enforcement role tends to attract authoritarian types. This is dangerous as fuck to leave unchecked.

    Edited: word redundancy

  8. And that same garda is now out on duty , deciding whether or not you’ve broken a law by looking at him funny.

    She wasnt smirking at you , that was just uncontained contempt

  9. Holy shit. I’d die of embarrassment if I was him. Imagine being so fucking pathetic you bring a child to court for smirking at you.

    If this is how he reacts to a child, imagine meeting this fucker while he’s working.

  10. A possibly nervous teenager smiles and he accuses her of racist discrimination, this is a Garda.
    The fact he was out sick for 3.5 years is probably Gardai way of getting rid of someone unsuitable.

  11. Was in a post office once many years ago when a garda tried to squeeze past a queue to post out summones as registered letters.

    The clerk told them to wait in the queue and the garda retorted that he’d arrest him for “embarrassing a garda on official duty”.

    Clerk just replied, go ahead but no garda will be served in this post office then. Garda stormed off.

  12. considering I got hit twice by a gard when i was 15 because I didn’t tell them my address, this doesn’t suprise me, give most men a badge and a baton and they will develop a superiority complex

  13. No doubt that poor girl will be looking over her shoulder for the retribution this pathetic scumbag will probably bring upon her. I have to deal with a lot of gardaí in my work and, not to be all “fuck da police” but a lot of them are vindictive, entitled wankers and wouldn’t be the brightest.

  14. My girlfriend was in the pub and pretty hammered, turned around to who she though was a friend and blew a raspberry into her face..it was a ban garda. She now has a criminal record for assault. Bitch guard went on a complete power trip. I lost respect for alot of them after this. I don’t drink and saw the whole thing. Totally harmless craic. Alot of wankers in the force.

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