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If you have a disability, your employer should do what they can to work around it to help you as much as possible.

What would you do if you had a serious lisp, so when communicating with customers, you did your best to use body language instead of speaking, but your manager didn’t like it, so he fired you?

That is what happened to the guy in this story, so as revenge, he goes into the store once a week and smashes all their inventory of hard taco shells.

Personally, I think he is going a bit too far, and he needs to find a way to get over this experience. Read through the full story and see if you agree.

I crush the hard taco shells and tostadas in the store that fired me for an immutable characteristic

If you don’t want your hard taco shells and tostadas crushed, I recommend two things.

This guy is clearly upset. Let’s see what happened.

First, don’t have them out in the open where any tall child or, more aptly, any disgruntled ex-employee can crunch them all in under a minute with minimal effort.

Second, I recommend not creating any such disgruntled employees by indiscriminately firing people for immutable characteristics.

He has had to learn to live with his disability.

I have a lisp, which has made life very unpleasant, though I’ve learned to live with it and only notice it now when some toddler on the bus points and laughs at me when I am simply minding my own business, talking on the phone.

In in-person settings, I prefer to speak only when necessary, and let my body language do some heavy lifting. This was the case when I worked at the grocery store and a customer would come up to me with a question.

This seems easy enough.

If they were asking where something was and I was at a distance where I could point out their desired item, that’s what I would do.

If they followed up and asked for an aisle number and that number was 10 or less, I would indicate it with my fingers. If they didn’t leave me alone after that, then I would use my words.

Why would anyone complain about this?

Usually, when they heard how difficult it is for me to get some of my words out, they seemed to understand why I communicate like this.

I would say 90% of customers were unbothered or had empathy for my situation. But the 10% who were not were the types to complain to management.

This is petty and wasteful.

When I had to have the talk with the boss man, I made it clear I wasn’t changing my ways. I printed out literature on lisps for them to read through, which they ignored. Instead, they let me go.

So, every Tuesday I go into their store and crush the hard shell tacos and tostadas. It’s petty, but over time it will cost them more than them firing cost me.

It is unlikely that they will even notice.

And when corporate gives them the call and tells them their balance sheet is weak and demands an explanation, I hope they know this all could have been avoided had they just respected the lisp.

While he has every reason to be upset, what he is doing won’t likely make any difference in the world. Plus, it is very wasteful. He needs to find a way to get over what happened to him.

Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about this situation.

This sums it up well.

I feel the same way as this commenter.

This commenter speaks with a lisp as well, and he thinks this guy is handling the situation poorly.

Here is someone else with a lisp that recommends that he get some help.

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This is a smart thing to look into, but he just wants to break things.

He is really holding onto a grudge instead of trying to work on improving himself. While it is understandable that he isn’t happy about the situation, but he needs to take some responsibility for it.

Hopefully, he will be able to get over this and stop destroying food for no real reason.