“Get the manager over here!” screams the unidentified customer to a postal employee behind a counter window. “I want the manager. We’ll see how long you have your job, sweetie.”
After several minutes of the customer’s rant, three police officers respond to the scene, but the 5-minute, 43-second clip ends too soon to see what happens next.
A Police Department spokesman told the Daily News that the man was released after he was given a verbal warning, but there was no record of his name because he was not arrested.
It’s unclear what tipped the customer over the edge.
“Who the hell do you think you are?” the employee is heard yelling at the male customer as others look on.
“I’m the customer, you stupid bitch,” the man responds.
As crazy as this guy seems, from what we hear about this post office, he may have been under-reacting. —MEGHANN MARCO
Online vid shows post-office meltdown [Daily News via Gothamist]
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Well, is it ever a good idea to post video of someone doing something shameful? Especially if it’s something almost everyone has done (lose your temper)? What he did was wrong. It’s my strong suspicion that people who lose their temper in public unfailingly regret it.
What if he:
1. Had just learned that he lost his job for poor customer relations, or
2. Had just discovered that he had cancer, or
3. Had just seen his dog get run over.
Would we feel that losing emotional control would be more justified in those cases? Do we know that there was no justification in this case?
I’m sorry for the times I’ve lost my temper with Verizon, Comcast, etc, etc.
Gee, talk about out of context. The video doesn’t show us what started the incident or how it ended, just the ranty meaty middle. So feel free to jump to any conclusions you care to…
Personally, and no offense Outtacontext, but in almost every experience with every form of government service, DMV, Post office, Immigration, etc, I’ve felt like this guy on the inside…just never snapped like he did and let it out.
This is a great example why the government should not be involved in health care… Hospitals and doctors are bad enough, imagine if postal employees worked them.
Is it too late to stop production on those Consumerist t-shirts? If “I’m the customer, you stupid bitch” isn’t the perfect catchphrase, I don’t know what is..
@permissionmag: I have to unfortunately agree. Take your gay-hating elsewhere, bigots.
@crayonshinobi: No, this is not a great example of why government should be involved in healthcare; this is just a video clip of a couple of people behaving very poorly in public.
@permissionmag: Agreed. It’s kind of fascinating to see people proclaim their supposed superiority by using slurs and insults…
…should not be involved in healthcare…
Fixed.
Is that Woody Allen?