Apple stores refuse to sell to customers who speak Farsi

a well reported story that the national ticket sales office had told callers from New Mexico that they would have to call back on the INTERNATIONAL line.

My sympathy to our lovely DUers from Atlanta, but I lived there in the past... There truly are a lot of stupid RWers there... yes, we have our share where I live too, but....

He went into the hotel cafe one morning and ordered an espresso, only to be told that they didn't serve alcoholic beverages.

(and count me unsurprised)

The late proprietor of one of Philadelphia's most famous steak sandwich purveyors had a sign in his window that said "We only take orders in English" or some such. This, in a neighborhood famously Italian, where he and most of the white population were only two or three steps from the Old Country. And I don't believe he saw the irony.

It does sound like someone in the local Apple command structure at Atlanta has been pushing his personal agenda. Hopefully he will be found and fired, but I doubt we'll ever hear anything about it.

-- Mal

What an absurd OP

........ perhaps you should try reading again.

........ perhaps you should try reading again.

..... in Farsi. Do you have a problem with someone speaking in Farsi to someone who speaks Farsi? Or is that to un-Murkan for you?

I don't know about you, but my untrained ear is not going to be able to tell Farsi from a host of other languages I don't speak.

reason to think he didn't ask what the language was and where it was spoken.

Sounds like the employee had an extremely screwed-up understanding of export restrictions and who/what they apply to, to go along with some (at best subconscious) biases...

This absolutely sounds like the actions of an individual employee.

not only recognized Farsi, but knew in which countries it was spoken.

if in actuality they had been speaking a Native American dialect.

and not arabic or "iranian".

the actual country that we have so many concerns with (and that builds all those i-whatevers) but not with Iranian individuals who haven't really done anything.

Gotcha.