A shopkeeper hit my baby

[LoopsInHoops]

Firstly, we're not in the UK, and here people to beat smack their kids. It is socially normal.

DD (17 months) had a bit of a breakdown in the chemists. She was tired and hungry. I was holding her and a few things at the checkout. She grabbed something and threw it on the floor and screamed. I was just about to pay, so couldn't really leave. She grabbed my neck and clawed me, then bit my shoulder. The shop assistant rang up the amout, then insisted on the correct change, which delayed things further, DD still screaming. She put the stuff in a bag, handed it to me, them smacked DD on the arm. Not hard, but deliberately. At this point she was screaming but not hurting or grabbing.

I didn't know what to do. I just glared at her and walked off. DD carried on screaming.

What should I have done? WIBU to walk off, or should I have said something?

[Whatnowffs]

No No my mistake, not shell, just another company. As you were.

[Youcanringmybell]

Weird thread...hope you feel calmer now op. I do not think there is much to be done...one of those strange things that happen in life and we just will not ever understand it.

Some of the posters on here, however, are batshit

[hobnobsaremyfavourite]

I am pissing myself at snoopy's posts. Darling you are wasted in HR, stand up comedy is so much more you darling.

[Whatnowffs]

The OP is not being precious, i woudl be mad as a snake too - if this had happened in this country it would be a no brainer - complaint to manager and the threat of legal action. But the OP is in another country with different rules and conventions on discipline. She came on here to express her upset and get some advice on what to do, if anything.

[GlaikitFizzog]

IME of oil companies (worked in many here and abroad) hr are notoriously shite! And don't know their arse from their elbow. So snooopy, I wouldn't go boasting about how high up you are in hr, because my love, if you are head of something that's shite, it's your fault it's shite.

[GlaikitFizzog]

And a head of hr should know the difference between slander and libel!

[BegoniaBampot]

You say the smack or tap wasn't hard so I'd put it down to experience and be better prepared next time. Certainly within your rights to say not to do that. She probably thought she was helping as they tend to be a lot more forward and hands on in that part of the world - even with other people's children.

[snooopy]

No, I really do mean mean slander. indicating I work for Shell is an incorrect slur on my character. If you slur my character within the correct context, it is libel.

[GlaikitFizzog]

Slander is spoken, libel is written my dear!

[GlaikitFizzog]

And why would it be a slur on your character to work for shell? That's your own prejudices you are projecting onto some one else's assumptions.

[JustFabulous]

Whatnowffs - If you were respondoing to me I wasn't talking to the OP.

[WaitingForMe]

Am I the only person amused that someone working for an oil company is accusing the OP of being on weak ground ethically?

[Whatnowffs]

No, it tickled me too Waiting - Justfabulous, sorry i was, but in that case, ignore me :-)

[Whatnowffs]

Snoopy, when in a hole...............

[BegoniaBampot]

So if oil companies are unethical, I guess folk who think this don't use their products?

[PoppyAmex]

What a bizarre thread!

[NotQuintAtAllOhNo]

Somebody should copy this thread into word and send it on to Shell.....

Tweet it to them, perhaps.

[NotQuintAtAllOhNo]

Not libel when we dont know who you are.


Other than Shell Head of HR.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

This thread is utterly bizarre!

Snooopy has made my evening thus far...please continue!

OP I can understand why you just left as you were shocked. Given its a different country with a very different culture,you probably reacted in the most appropriate way. She wouldn't have understood what you problem was if it's the norm in KL. obviously had it happened in the UK,it would be a completely different situation.

[GreenyEyes]

[Binfullofgibletsonthe26th]

I pay 11% tax...I guess that means the checkout assistant in Migros can knock my son out with a railway sleeper next time he accidentally knocks the sweets off the checkout then...

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a HUGE pile of money to go and sit on mwah, hah, hah, hah....

[scarletforya]

This thread is unexpectedly hilarious!

snooopy you are looopy.

[bamboostalks]

You can certainly never predict how a mumsnet thread will go.