I went to this ups store yesterday with my mother and my 3 Kids, my mom had to have a notarized document ( my mom does not speak Good English) so she needed my help, and I had a couple of items to be returned to Macy's, so we all had our masks on except for my 11 month old baby, my kids were next to me and my mom, all of the sudden the store got a little busy, This lady (the notary) she was a Spanish speaker, so I told my mom I was going to print my return labels and this lady was going to help her with her document, so there was this older lady complaining about my kid's being there contaminating the office with COVID, I looked at the lady and I ignored her, and she goes again and complains with the owner about mexican people being at that store. The owner started talking a bunch of trash about us with his employee ( the notary) telling her to tell me to leave the store, the notary lady told him That I understand English, he didn't care and kept talking horrible stuff about us. I looked at that man I and said, excuse me!! I understand what your saying I heard what that old lady had comment about my kids and my mom and I and am sorry but am not leaving, My kids are wearing their masks they are not being annoying or damaging your store they are here next to me, so there is no reason for you to tell me to leave, and again he ask to take those kids out of this store to leave them either on the car or outside of the store, I told him am sure you know it's illegal to leave your 8, 5 year old and a 11 month baby inside a car unattended by an adult, and obviously am not taking my kid's outside and leave them there, then my 8 year old tells me that she would wait outside so I won't get in trouble, i told her to not worry about anything we weren't doing anything wrong that everything was ok, so the notary keeps helping my mom and I and he told the lady if she keeps helping me she needs to leave with me and those kids, she told the owner that she was not going to leave because She wasn't doing anything wrong, she was doing her job and he did not care, he went off on her and my kids and I, Ronny Haar the owner of the store started insulting us in a very racist way asking to get the F**k out of his store telling my kids a Bunch of inappropriate words for children of their age, I wanted to get my phone out and start recording him so people will see the type of person he is. I wanted to loose my patience and go off on him, but I just couldn't because I don't want to give my kids a bad example, my 8 year old started crying asking me to leave that place that she didn't want the guy to talk to me the way he was talking to them and I, my mom had no clue what was going on, and I broke down in tears when he told the notary that she was fired, that she just lost her job for being helping me, I still can believe she got fired for helping a Hispanic person who he thought that I didn't spoke English, I am a US Citizen as well my kids are. I felt extremely humiliated, but my biggest pain was that my children had to go through that horrible experience, 2 customers left his office very upset and this other lady who was at the tea shop asked the notary lady what had happen to us, she told her what Ronny did to us and she was very upset and said that she was not going back to the place and she will put a review about how I was treated,
On our way home, my 8 year old made a comment where she asked me if I ever have to do an errand that she wants to stay home with her brother and sister and don't get her mom in trouble just like she did today, and my 5 year old said to my 8 year old, that she does not want to speak Spanish ever again that way people won't get mad with mom, this broke my heart and hurt them bad.
I been in truckee for 17+ years and never imagined to get discriminated like I did today, I really really hope that lady' puts her review and the other people who was at the store!! read more