The Ugly Canada Thread

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

I was gonna say the cheese looks like melted plastic.

It does, like they didn't peel the "cheese" from its wrapping.

[O-tacular]

Where else ya gonna go in Edmonton?

Stolen airport shuttle bus ends up lodged in West Edmonton Mall parkade

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/edmonton/west-edmonton-mall-airport-shuttle-bus-1.4431132

[O-tacular]

This scum probably has a Trump sticker on his Ford F-350 too:

Video captures racist tirade at Calgary Superstore

https://globalnews.ca/news/3894178/video-captures-racist-tirade-at-calgary-superstore/

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

This scum probably has a Trump sticker on his Ford F-350 too:



https://globalnews.ca/news/3894178/video-captures-racist-tirade-at-calgary-superstore/

such ugliness. these racist 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 are utterly worthless.

[lio45]

"Viewer discretion is advised" but then everything he says is censored...?

He's obviously angry, but all he says is beep beeeeeeeep beep beeeep. And he exploded like that due to an item being double-scanned? Happened to me no later than just yesterday, we had the second scanning credited in a breeze. I went and found a Calgary anger management group's address for Chadillaccc a few years ago, this guy should join too

[Rollerstud98]

I once self scanned an item twice, last week. I just asked the attendant to correct it and I was on my way!

[WhipperSnapper]

http://shercorp.ca/IVY-condos

[GeneralLea]

IVY Condos has a pretty lacklustre design ......might just be a 365 Church. Also, I didn't really see any fugliness

Originally Posted by lio45

Here's a pretty awful building that's on a well-traveled artery (the city should definitely help whoever has it pay for a reclad...)

https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.8102843,-...dPdrjo6XXobTF9A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=fr

That kind of ugliness is IMO particularly shameful because it wouldn't be too hard to fix and the building would just be ordinary and bland, rather than sticking out as an eyesore.

It doesn't look fugly at all to me.....different tastes I guess

the Toyota Yaris is a pretty fugly car.....it's pretty fat looking whilst being a compact car.

[Loco101]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

such ugliness. these racist 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 are utterly worthless.

Correct me if I'm wrong but was the manager still scanning the racist customer's items while the 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 was pushing and shoving?? Why didn't they just tell him to leave?

[vid]

Originally Posted by Loco101

Correct me if I'm wrong but was the manager still scanning the racist customer's items while the 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 was pushing and shoving?? Why didn't they just tell him to leave?

Because money.

[Loco101]

Why would they want money from a racist bigot?!?! If the same thing happened in Ontario, the transaction would have been cancelled and the guy booted out of the store right away. I wonder what Loblaws headquarters will think of how the incident was handled!

[vid]

Honestly, it's probably more of a "this guy's stuck in the line, let's just get him out of here quickly and hope nothing else bad happens" kind of thing. The employees all stayed calm, the other customers stayed calm, so the only person in the wrong is the racist 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵. If they tried to forcibly remove him without giving him his groceries (if he even collected them before leaving, they were still scanning things when he was screaming so they might not have actually finished the transaction?) it probably would have been an even bigger ordeal, and they generally want to have these things resolved and over as soon as possible so the store can get back to normal. Hiccups like this cost money, they want to avoid them.

I imagine Loblows will issue a statement (if they haven't already) condemning this behaviour and boosting their commitment to diversity (which is one of the strong points for both Loblaws and Walmart, they're definitely not discriminatory when it comes to hiring.)

[O-tacular]

More insane racist ugliness:

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/calga...ats-bus-vandalized-rock-window-1.4432614

[O-tacular]

It appears the racist attack at the NE Calgary Superstore has triggered a tidal wave of similar stories from other employees. They claim it never gets treated seriously. Not surprising a company whose sweatshop killed 200 people wouldn’t give a 🞵🞵🞵🞵 about store employees being abused by customers.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3896418/super...orward-after-hate-filled-video-surfaces/

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Loco101

Why would they want money from a racist bigot?!?! If the same thing happened in Ontario, the transaction would have been cancelled and the guy booted out of the store right away. I wonder what Loblaws headquarters will think of how the incident was handled!

Probably, but how can you be so sure when the "handling" is dependent on the judgement of a single individual (the store manager)?

I suppose that it could have been handled differently in many other stores in Calgary as well or anywhere else.

Many business I reckon don't have policies in place precisely for "🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 aggressive guy who says racist stuff to staff", though I suppose that as time wears on, more and more of them will.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Loco101

Correct me if I'm wrong but was the manager still scanning the racist customer's items while the 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 was pushing and shoving?? Why didn't they just tell him to leave?

He was. Idiot manager. I spent years in retail management (90s, Vancouver region), and there were a couple of times I physically removed verbally-abusive (racist/sexist) customers that did not take the hint to "get the 🞵🞵🞵🞵 out of my store" (that was after a long series of increasingly threatening warnings to leave the store immediately. No video-enabled cellphones back then.

Back in the late eighties, as a manager at McShitties, we had numerous instances of customers freaking out and throwing things (mostly food) at employees. I recall throwing some guy through the door. Those were the days...

I am not advocating for violent responses, which can escalate a bad situation into an even worse one. Managers had much more discretion for taking steps back then, and well, it wasn't uncommon to manhandle unruly/abusive customers.

Retail employees already put up with a lot of 🞵🞵🞵🞵. I have always had a very low tolerance for racism/sexism.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by Loco101

Why would they want money from a racist bigot?!?! If the same thing happened in Ontario, the transaction would have been cancelled and the guy booted out of the store right away. I wonder what Loblaws headquarters will think of how the incident was handled!

I'd like to think the straw that broke CIBC and Loblaws partnership was the harassment towards women by PC Financial's "staff." Only Indians were hired in, at least, the Toronto area which probably didn't sit to well with Loblaws either.

[O-tacular]

It people looks like the 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 in the Superstore video has come forward and police are “talking”’with him. Also the customer who shot the video is receiving online threats.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3897080/polic...-of-racist-tirade-at-calgary-superstore/

[MolsonExport]

Racism appears to be on the rise, no doubt emboldened by the antics of the prejudiced orange scumbag in chief

[Rollerstud98]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Racism appears to be on the rise, no doubt emboldened by the antics of the prejudiced orange scumbag in chief

Is it though? Would seem that it is just more visible with technologies now. Where people 15 years ago would do this and a handful of people present would know, now people around the world know within minutes because of social media.