to think I would want someone's head too if they slapped my child?

[ThingyTheBusCleaner]

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Morrisons shop assistant sacked for slapping a four year old customer. What was she thinking??!!

I don't agree with hitting (anyone).

I don't agree with parents not correcting/disciplining their children.

The shopworker certainly should not have laid hands on a child (unless they were in danger if hurting themselves/someone else).

I feel sorry she lost her job (in this climate, I feel sorry for anyone having to find a job).

I hate the whole 'I shall speak to the press, have a sad-pony-face photo taken, then possible sue' culture we now have.

If I had been that child, my mum would have most likely told off the assistant, yelled at me, then dragged me home and given me what-for for being such a pain in the backside that someone was driven to feeling the need to whallop me.

If it was my son, I'd be angry because I don't agree with hitting, annoyed with myself if his behaviour had been that disruptive, but I wouldn't be asking for the cashiers head on a plate or threaten to hit her. What is the right retribution - sacking, jail, hanging, flogging, branding, eternal damnation...?

The child was not a victim of abuse - they were a victim of an assault.

If a member of staff hit me then I wouldn't go back - policy or not

Goblin?

Really?

I assume you smack your child yourself?

Even so, really?

Sacking is the correct procedure for a member of staff who is found guilty of gross misconduct - hitting customers is pretty much gross misconduct

Thingy

You say
"Some of These comments remind me of the thread the other day when a Supermarket worker called a child a "Little shit".

I just don't know what Kind of godawful Levels of Patience you must have to hit or call a child a "Little shit" in the normal course of your work"

Totally agree.

Some of these posters (and on the Little Shit thread seem to imply that it is understandable, even forgivable, for an adult to show less self control than a small child.

I don't believe you Goblin.

And if that's really true then you must take everyone else's side except your child and they will know that and grow up not trusting you.

Come on goblin....you'd apologize if someone hit your child??

littlemisssarcastic
Re: assuming that the cashier wouldn't have hit the child if his 6' dad/uncle/ ... Was there.
I have no doubt about it. It doesn't mean I think that the man would neccessarily hit back (although you never know) but because ppl don't take over in that way when there's a man about. The "smack" was as much an admonishment of the mother as of the child. I don't think the cashier would have been so disrespectful of a man.

I agree TheRealAmanda

Perhaps not. I accept that. However, wouldn't that be the same for any man, despite his stature?

Oh yes, this is the same story that came out several days ago; the story where she'd left the store, called the police, no charges made and everyone was left apparently happy, the one where, later on, she posted on the facebook page saying how it 'was the worst experience any parent could suffer". The same story where the staff member touched the child on the knee and said "Don't be a naughty boy for your mum". The one where she's gone running to the daily mail and been paid for her story.

The woman concerned has a post on her facebook page
""Please please please be careful with your kids when out. A guy offered Max food this morning and ran off as soon as I looked at the guy. Max was freaked out but is safe. We was almost at nursery when the guy approached Max so please everyone keep a close eye on your little ones"" Mmm...interesting that one of the responses mentions seeing her approaching the nursery that morning and there was no sign of any scary men threatening children around at the time. Not the slightest chance of her being a fantasist who'd embellish a story to get attention or cash now is there? Of course not.

OK, I've read the thread.

My absolute favourite post was "Anyone" posting her assertion that lady-in-paper was a shoplifting Fagin-type- who was using her child as a distraction.

Is that libellous? Is it OK to say that kind of thing these days?

Can I say that I think Anyone knows so much about this kind of thing because, as a teenager, she went out with someone who used to get her to take drugged babies into Morrisons and throw them at shop assistants, whilst she stuffed chicken breasts down her pants?

To make it clear, that isn't a personal attack. I am genuinely interested if it is OK to say stuff like that. It is purely hypothetical about what speech acts can be made on mn these days, rather than an assertion or imputation as to the character of another poster.

IT is also clearly an absurdification, with little reference to reality) as, I am sure, was Anyone's original suggestion.

Anyway, enough of this thread. I think once people start posting her Facebook entries (next step "She put herself in the spotlight, she asked for it") I think it is truly time to go ....

Announcing a flounce - excellent!

Not a flounce is it? Just leaving the thread.

ok, bye then.