Yesterday I went to Matalan to get some new t-shirts. I know that Matalan have a reputation of attracting a certain type of shopper but I do like their range of funny t-shirts and they are very reasonably priced so that is me sold.
There are 2 floors in the store in Dalston, the men’s stuff is on the top floor. I bought 3 new t-shirts and wondered over to the paying area on the top floor where there as one black woman behind the counter serving a line of black women and men.
She looked up at me and told me quite bluntly to go and pay downstairs, as I was on the escalator I saw two black women join the queue and a white woman being told to go downstairs to pay for her item.
I wonder what would possibly happen if this as reversed?
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How odd! A similar thing happened to me in Dalston’s Matalan in October. It never occurred to me that it was racist, but on reflection, you may be right.
I’ve found a better place that offers a better line of t-shirts so they can shove it.
Hi guys i started work at matalan dalston about 2 months ago thinking its just like any other place to work in , and belive me i have been treated diffrently from other members of staff which had diffrent skin color, i was really hatted by this woman supervisor for absolutly no reason she was responding to me with a rude answer, she was giving the hardest tasks and then checking the smallest details afterwards while other black employees were joking and laughing and doing no work, i never thought i would ever leave a work placement for such reason i am not saying that all black ppl in matalan dalstan are racist, most of them are good ppl but there are some racists, as the guy said above…
what would happen if this was reversed? intik@hotmail.co.uk
HaHaaaa. Dats Jokez! Big up Dalston den =) S[dot].
oh, don’t you know? it’s not racism if it’s towards white people. that doesn’t count for some reason. we aren’t single people with respective views and beliefs, we’re all just one big evil entity that oppresses black people. apparently.
i have nothing against anyone because of their skin color. i’ve been treated the way you where at matalan plenty. the fact of the matter is, a long time ago a bunch of dickheads started slavery and pissed a lot of black people off. to this day, people are still pissed off, and rightly so. But why should we have to pay for their mistake? You haven’t been enslaved, and i haven’t enslaved anyone, so quit crying and get over it and treat people the way you want to be treated. that is my message to anyone who thinks it’s okay to be racist to a certain group because ‘they did it first’. it’s not, fuck you.
@ B
I was recently contacted by someone at Matalan (they asked me not to post their name) who told me that the head office had received numerous complaints about the staff at the Dalston store, some of the complaints were from staff!
@ E9 Bang Bang
I’m glad you fin it funny…
@ Max Murphy
I don’t think I could have put it better myself!