Should I accept the Co-Ops response in r.e to intimidating incident

DevCoder

FTBSOS wrote: »

I am going to phone CO-OP now and mention I am not happy with the offer of £40 vouchers, for what I've gone through.

I would take the £40 tbh.

You do know they can just rescind their goodwill gesture and cancel the vouchers?

I also wouldn't go spouting unfounded accusations about insinuating racism and ageism.

Looksguywalker

Storck wrote: »

You complain about the store manager been racist and ageist and then proceed to be ageist yourself.

...ageist AND sexist!:rotfl:

Looksguywalker

The OP judging by their previous threads ( read them...they are entertaining! ) appears to be having a bad luck year. You couldn't make some of it up...or could you?

pinkshoes

If it had been fraud, then the guy in the shop could have lost his job over that amount, so he did the right thing being cautious.

I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill and should take the voucher graciously.

Ps - missing the birth as you were 40 mins longer than planned? Labour usually takes over an hour, so I'm not sure what you were doing in the shop!

Mossop93

FTBSOS wrote: »

The reason why I went out to get the redeem the vouchers because the baby was due in the next few hours and OH friend works for Shelfridges and can get a decent discount for us on clothes for the baby so once baby was due, I didn't want to go anywhere other than stay at the bedside with my love and the little one, so quickly popped out to get the cash to give it to my OH's friend.

Why was this not done before your partner went into labour?

FTBSOS wrote: »

You sound like a bitter old lady

For someone complaining about how an apparently smug member of staff is racist and ageist based on a look they apparently gave you, this a very ageist comment.

FTBSOS wrote: »

Btw, the way, you have been blocked and reported, stop trolling.

I see no trolling, and btw means by the way... So you just wrote "by the way the way lol.

Now how about you drag yourself away from the computer, be happy with the £40 and spend some time with your son! Jesus. All you're doing is being a drama queen and missing out on even more of your sons first moments.

pops5588

Just from a purely factual point of view, when I was 13 I was wrongly accused of theft in a WHSmith in front of lots of people and I received £500 compensation. They got off lightly, it wasn't until I started working in retail and learned the law of these things myself that I realised we could have argued for thousands. But still, £40 isn't really sufficient, regardless of your belief the situation was motivated by race and age.

JReacher1

It looks like you had a large number of vouchers with a barcode that wouldn't scan. I very much doubt they would have handed the goods over to a white person in this scenario so I don't think your race is relevant.

kiss_me_now9

Not going to lie, if I was in labour and my OH suggested that he was going to pop to the shop for anything that I didn't specifically need in the next 12 hours I would kill him.

pops5588

The whole race issue is irrelevant anyway. The bottom line is that unless an illegal act has actually taken place (ie. OP had walked out with the goods obtained fraudulently) they had no right to make any accusations against the OP, and they have left themselves very vulnerable to prosecution by doing so!! It's the same with shoplifting. Even if I had actually seen someone in a shop clearly put an item in their bag, I would not be able to accuse them of anything unless I had been able to maintain 100% clear sight of the suspect throughout and unless they had actually walked OUT of the shop, thus confirming they had no intention of obtaining the items legally.

Takeaway_Addict

pops5588 wrote: »

Just from a purely factual point of view, when I was 13 I was wrongly accused of theft in a WHSmith in front of lots of people and I received £500 compensation. They got off lightly, it wasn't until I started working in retail and learned the law of these things myself that I realised we could have argued for thousands. But still, £40 isn't really sufficient, regardless of your belief the situation was motivated by race and age.

You could have argued for it, whether you would have got it or not is a different thing and obviously the situation is going to be completely different.