Little girl asked to leave KFC

[Lepplady]

A jihad on that KFC crew...AND the people who asked the KFC management to remove paying customers, who weren't doing anything but ordering (and paying for!) food with their little girl.

I've been on the receiving end of that kind of bullsh*t, too, although I wasn't old enough to remember.
Being the world's most allergenic child, I was given a sulfa derivative drug to combat whatever allergy du jour I was having when I was 18 months old. It was the first time I'd had sulfa drugs and the docs had no way of knowing I was more allergic to them than I was to whatever they were trying to treat.

The first three layers of my skin bubbled up and sloughed off while I ran a fairly high fever. According to my parents, who thought they were going to lose their only child, it was painful and a disgusting mess to see. I looked so awful that the sweethearts at the Stanford pediatric clinic asked my parents to enter the clinic with me through the back door....so that I wouldn't alarm other parents and children.

That's just cruel. Never mind the scars that show. This type of cruelty leaves scars that don't show and run much, much deeper.

 

[Lepplady]

I'm hoping this story will turn into a big PR nightmare for KFC. Also, could the parents file some sort of law suit? I don't know. Bad publicity and a hit to the wallet would serve as a warning to other businesses to be more sensitive when situations like this arise.

If this whole story is true, KFC confirmed the incident in its reply. Sounds like grounds for a law suit to me.

 

[Tim D.]

....I think in most cases anymore...the fault lies with the franchisees and the staff that they hire...Corporate needs to overhaul their hiring processes in whatever business venture...too many slack-jawed idiots are hired, because they are a warm body to fill a hole in their schedule-not because they have any people skills...that's why I think Undercover Boss is a good show, because somewhat contrived or not-it allows the powers that be to see some of the true genetic deficient morons that get hired and represent their businesses...as well as the rare gems...

As a longtime retail worker I have would have to say that the sad fact is that hiring slack jawed idiots is becoming the norm for jobs in the retail/fast food sector. The almighty buck is the first, last and only consideration by major corporations these days, despite how much they insist they care for their customers. They don't really have much use for people who know how to do their jobs, they like to hire people that can be easily intimidated; teenagers, or retirees that will work part time so they won't have to provide benefits. Most of these corporations treat the employees as a necessary evil that must be tolerated instead of assets. I have been on the receiving end of far too many dumb corporate directives and have seen the apathy that it breeds in the workplace. And it is only getting worse, not better. An incident occurred recently where I work in which the management was telling some of the workers that they needed to greet and acknowledge each and every customer, to which one of the teenagers responded that for only $7.00 an hour they weren't getting paid enough to do all that work. A sentiment that seemed to be widely shared amongst the others.

 

[Grandpa]

Okay, I don't want to look like a cold, heartless bastard, because truly, I feel just horrible for this little girl. But I did just a little Googling because the story is dramatic.

The little girl's grandmother had taken her to the KFC. The pitbulls that attacked the little girl apparently belonged to her grandfather. I'm no lawyer, but I'd say any impulse to file a lawsuit had better be looked over very carefully.

And it's still awful what happened to that little girl, both in the pitbull attack with the loss of her eye and the facial trauma and scarring, and what she has to live through with the ongoing results.

 

[SharonC]

Okay, I don't want to look like a cold, heartless bastard, because truly, I feel just horrible for this little girl. But I did just a little Googling because the story is dramatic.

The little girl's grandmother had taken her to the KFC. The pitbulls that attacked the little girl apparently belonged to her grandfather. I'm no lawyer, but I'd say any impulse to file a lawsuit had better be looked over very carefully.

And it's still awful what happened to that little girl, both in the pitbull attack with the loss of her eye and the facial trauma and scarring, and what she has to live through with the ongoing results.

Regardless of who owned the dogs, the little girl is the one who continues to suffer. The staff didn't know the family, as far as I can determine, and were completely in the wrong in what they did. And no, I don't think you look cold and heartless just because you look further into this story. It always helps to have the facts, and not just blindly believing everything. We do tend to jump to conclusions too fast in today's society, so kudos to you.

 

[GNTLGNT]

As a longtime retail worker I have would have to say that the sad fact is that hiring slack jawed idiots is becoming the norm for jobs in the retail/fast food sector. The almighty buck is the first, last and only consideration by major corporations these days, despite how much they insist they care for their customers. They don't really have much use for people who know how to do their jobs, they like to hire people that can be easily intimidated; teenagers, or retirees that will work part time so they won't have to provide benefits. Most of these corporations treat the employees as a necessary evil that must be tolerated instead of assets. I have been on the receiving end of far too many dumb corporate directives and have seen the apathy that it breeds in the workplace. And it is only getting worse, not better. An incident occurred recently where I work in which the management was telling some of the workers that they needed to greet and acknowledge each and every customer, to which one of the teenagers responded that for only $7.00 an hour they weren't getting paid enough to do all that work. A sentiment that seemed to be widely shared amongst the others.

...and that's the rest of the story...I agree, completely...I just jumped off my soapbox a bit early...

 

[Terry B]

I don't buy from KFC and probably never will.

 

[Lepplady]

Okay, I don't want to look like a cold, heartless bastard, because truly, I feel just horrible for this little girl. But I did just a little Googling because the story is dramatic.

The little girl's grandmother had taken her to the KFC. The pitbulls that attacked the little girl apparently belonged to her grandfather. I'm no lawyer, but I'd say any impulse to file a lawsuit had better be looked over very carefully.

And it's still awful what happened to that little girl, both in the pitbull attack with the loss of her eye and the facial trauma and scarring, and what she has to live through with the ongoing results.

I'm talking about suing KFC for being inconsiderate butt-heads. Not the owner of the dogs.

 

[Lily Sawyer]

Most of these corporations treat the employees as a necessary evil that must be tolerated instead of assets. I have been on the receiving end of far too many dumb corporate directives and have seen the apathy that it breeds in the workplace.

This is only one of the many reasons why I no longer work in retail.

 

[doowopgirl]

The sad thing here is she actually doesn't look too bad to me. You can see that something happened to her, but she is the farthest thing from scary I've ever seen. She is still one beautiful little girl, and for those people to do that is totally unacceptable. The company can investigate and apologize all they want, but it will never be enough to make this child feel good about herself. She will always have that horrible memory.

I agree with you Sharon. She doesn't look scary to me at all. How precious are people? Shame on those who complained and on those who asked her to leave.

 

[Riot87]

Yea i agree with her as well. she is still a cute little girl!

 

[kingricefan]

The scars on the outside of her will heal and fade with time/Surgeries but what's being done to her on the inside is what will take a toll. Poor, poor child. Noone needs to be treated like this! Noone!

 

[Grandpa]

Regardless of who owned the dogs, the little girl is the one who continues to suffer.

I'm talking about suing KFC for being inconsiderate butt-heads. Not the owner of the dogs.

I don't dispute whatsoever that, taken at face value, the establishment was entirely in the wrong, and not just for the little girl. Lacking some hygiene issue, it's just appalling that someone could be asked to leave a restaurant because their medical condition is "frightening."

But litigation is different, when the grandparents testify to how the little girl was traumatized by the restaurant, and then they're asked on cross-examination how the girl got the horrible trauma in the first place. "So you're outraged that the restaurant was insensitive to the maiming wounds and loss of an eye that your dogs inflicted on her?"

I really am not wanting to debate it, because it's all just horrible enough already. I simply have my doubts that litigation would be effective, and I've said why, and I'll leave it at that. Right now, I'm angry at the restaurant for kicking her out, if that's what happened, and for the grandfather for not keeping his pitbulls from chewing on her, if that's what happened. At the bottom line, we have a little girl who doesn't deserve any of this but has to live with the consequences probably forever.

 

[EMTP513]

That's just cruel. Never mind the scars that show. This type of cruelty leaves scars that don't show and run much, much deeper.

Scars that show? Are these people f'ing crazy?
It makes me want to tell them in detail what the woman who was shot in the head at close range looked like, or the person who was in the high-impact car crash whose brains were falling out of his head.

These people don't know what "scary" even is.

 

[VultureLvr45]

I'm hoping this story will turn into a big PR nightmare for KFC. Also, could the parents file some sort of law suit? I don't know. Bad publicity and a hit to the wallet would serve as a warning to other businesses to be more sensitive when situations like this arise.

My thoughts exactly

 

[VultureLvr45]

Could we change the title of this thread to "Little girl asked to leave KFC" instead of "Scary girl asked to leave KFC?" She has been through much...

 

[EMTP513]

A jihad on that KFC crew...AND the people who asked the KFC management to remove paying customers, who weren't doing anything but ordering (and paying for!) food with their little girl.

I've been on the receiving end of that kind of bullsh*t, too, although I wasn't old enough to remember.
Being the world's most allergenic child, I was given a sulfa derivative drug to combat whatever allergy du jour I was having when I was 18 months old. It was the first time I'd had sulfa drugs and the docs had no way of knowing I was more allergic to them than I was to whatever they were trying to treat.

The first three layers of my skin bubbled up and sloughed off while I ran a fairly high fever. According to my parents, who thought they were going to lose their only child, it was painful and a disgusting mess to see. I looked so awful that the sweethearts at the Stanford pediatric clinic asked my parents to enter the clinic with me through the back door....so that I wouldn't alarm other parents and children.

Me too. Of course if you're allergic to aspirin you're usually allergic to sulfa drugs and I don't know why my doctor gave them to me, but I wasn't a paramedic (and so didn't know that about the relation of aspirin allergies and sulfa drugs) when he gave it to me. I actually broke into a rash when I took the sulfa drug. With aspirin it was harder to figure out because I just started having breathing trouble which could be confused with an asthma attack.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Some people just outright suck. Whoever told that poor little girl to leave should be fired, period.

 

[fushingfeef]

As a parent and human being this story is infuriating.
If only we could ask people who are ugly on the inside to leave the planet...there seem to be far too many of 'em.

 

[blunthead]

I don't dispute whatsoever that, taken at face value, the establishment was entirely in the wrong, and not just for the little girl. Lacking some hygiene issue, it's just appalling that someone could be asked to leave a restaurant because their medical condition is "frightening."

But litigation is different, when the grandparents testify to how the little girl was traumatized by the restaurant, and then they're asked on cross-examination how the girl got the horrible trauma in the first place. "So you're outraged that the restaurant was insensitive to the maiming wounds and loss of an eye that your dogs inflicted on her?"

I really am not wanting to debate it, because it's all just horrible enough already. I simply have my doubts that litigation would be effective, and I've said why, and I'll leave it at that. Right now, I'm angry at the restaurant for kicking her out, if that's what happened, and for the grandfather for not keeping his pitbulls from chewing on her, if that's what happened. At the bottom line, we have a little girl who doesn't deserve any of this but has to live with the consequences probably forever.

I think a lawsuit would be about discrimination, which wouldn't include any other complaint.

BTW, on the radio I heard corporate KFC has issued an apology and is offering $30,000 in restitution, and is planning an investigation.