Wheelchair user can't pay by card,gets free coffee and still complains

#1 · 30-09-2017 09:43PM #1

Before anyone goes off on me here id to point out I have a physical disability that inhibits my movement.

However the below really annoys me.

She is a disability rights campaigner who happens to discover that she can't reach the card machine in costa coffee across from her college. Why she couldn't let the barista just take the card and tap and pay like most places do I don't know but she makes a complaint anyway. Makes it her business to go in theee everyday to see if they have resolved the issue by making the cord longer. Theu advise it would take 2 weeks and whole refurbishment of the counter to do that and instead they decide to give her free coffee. She meets with the manager numerous times who apologises and the matter hasn't been resolved yet.

In my opinion there are much bigger issues for people with disabilities than being able to reach a god damn card machine to pay,issue is easily resolved by given the card to the barista to tap or paying in cash but in the end she receives free coffee over and over.

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/wheelchair-user-refused-service-in-coffee-shop-because-she-couldnt-reach-their-card-machine-36184554.html

LirW · 30-09-2017 09:44PM

By now, anyone who describes themselves as a "campaigner" you know with a 95% certainty it's a nutcase.

mickdw · 30-09-2017 09:46PM

If they have advised of the time it may take to correct this, she should be told to take a hike of she doesn't bring cash.

JimmyMcGill · 30-09-2017 09:48PM

If only there was some way she could pay without using a card.

SeaFields · 30-09-2017 09:49PM

Read the article.. Christ she sounds like a pain in the hole.

For Forks Sake · 30-09-2017 09:51PM

If only there were other coffee shops close to Trinity :rolleyes:

Todd Gack · 30-09-2017 09:54PM

Not for the first time https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/wheelchair-user-says-she-was-denied-boarding-to-ryanair-flight-1.2983765

For Forks Sake · 30-09-2017 09:55PM

Todd Gack wrote: »

Not for the first time https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/wheelchair-user-says-she-was-denied-boarding-to-ryanair-flight-1.2983765

I knew the name was familiar when I was reading the Indo article.

30-09-2017 09:57PM

She’s the Ryanair whingebag - will she have a rant on her Facebook again - does she learn

NickNickleby · 30-09-2017 09:57PM

surely the server can simply take the card, do the 'tap' thing with it and hand it back with a printout of the transaction. Or offer to take cash.

30-09-2017 09:57PM

Her again...

http://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/disabled-student-hits-out-ryanair-12629250

ted1 · 30-09-2017 09:59PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Her again...

http://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/disabled-student-hits-out-ryanair-12629250

And again https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/irish-news/charity-now-accused-of-financial-irregularities-told-student-20-it-couldnt-afford-to-fund-her-counselling-sessions-35994082.html

Sounds like someone who goes looking for trouble

lifeandtimes · 30-09-2017 10:01PM

She was the Ryanair lady?

Wow she just goes out looking for problems doesn't she?

Whatever about blatant discrimination against people of disability but this is certainly not one of them. She can give her card, pay with cash or go somewhere else.

God she sounds like a nightmare

freshpopcorn · 30-09-2017 10:01PM

With all the crying she does she must keep kleenex in business!

Mint Sauce · 30-09-2017 10:05PM

Get a cordless card reader/machine. Thought most places had these.

meekamouse · 30-09-2017 10:07PM

fair play to her,
it should be accesible without having to ask
and that is bull **** that it takes 2 weeks to move it, i could probably move it myself in ten minutes

lifeandtimes · 30-09-2017 10:09PM

meekamouse wrote: »

fair play to her,
it should be accesible without having to ask
and that is bull **** that it takes 2 weeks to move it, i could probably move it myself in ten minutes

They said it takes the whole counter being taken up and refurbished to accommodate the installations.

Give the barista the card, pay i cash or **** up whinging

30-09-2017 10:10PM

What's the point of going to Uni?

Someone should break it to her that she is probably utterly unemployable because of her attitude.

Would an employer really risk taking her on, wondering when they will appear on her social media...

Blazer · 30-09-2017 10:10PM

You think with the chip on her shoulder she'd be close enough for the machine to register it.

s4uv3 · 30-09-2017 10:11PM

meekamouse wrote: »

fair play to her,
it should be accesible without having to ask
and that is bull **** that it takes 2 weeks to move it, i could probably move it myself in ten minutes

Sure you're mighty altogether. Take yourself off into that Costa branch with your toolbox and solve everybodys problem

freshpopcorn · 30-09-2017 10:14PM

meekamouse wrote: »

fair play to her,
it should be accesible without having to ask
and that is bull **** that it takes 2 weeks to move it, i could probably move it myself in ten minutes

Are you her?
You seem a little upset/angry!

Irish Guitarist · 30-09-2017 10:19PM

"I feel like... it might sound silly but I feel like I was denied my rights as a consumer. I feel like I'm looked down on all the time because people have to literally look down on me because I'm in a wheelchair and this was just another issue."

Poor girl. Sounds like they made her feel wheely bad.

Tenigate · 30-09-2017 10:20PM

So she is complaining about not getting free counselling, fecked up her ryanair booking and got a free transfer, gets free coffee because she's too stubborn to carry cash, and is probably getting every benefit and education grant going to do a big government course in "European studies"

The ultimate millennial. Huge sense of entitlement and a virtuous victim.

Edit: full disclosure i have a marketing degree. But surely she could attach her phone to a selfie stick to use contactless payment.. guess those are smarts would-be beuracrats don't consider, not when they can make themselves feel useful designating maximum heights of counters and minimum cord lengths for card readers. They won't be happy til stephen hawking can pay for his latte by licking a payment terminal without straining his neck.

scamalert · 30-09-2017 10:25PM

"Accessibility is a daily issue and I tend not to make such a big deal of it"

fcking irony on her side, so basically she found one shop that has card reader fixed and went out of the way to go there every freaking week that they would fix it for her, instead just handing card as any other human being would do she needs to put it herself.

30-09-2017 10:28PM

Wonder how her lawsuit against Ryanair is going

windbag snowflake

elperello · 30-09-2017 10:32PM

Ye are a nice bunch, I'm sure ye're mammies are proud of ye.

tedpan · 30-09-2017 10:39PM

elperello wrote:

Ye are a nice bunch, I'm sure ye're mammies are proud of ye.

Here we go...

Mousewar · 30-09-2017 10:46PM

She's possibly right about some of this stuff but I'd say she's a pain to deal with all the same.
And I doubt plenty of her details. Bet the guy didn't wave her away.

30-09-2017 10:51PM

I remember she was particularly nasty and immature on Facebook last time in regard to the Ryanair incident, calling anyone who questioned why she didn’t ensure her assistance request was transferred to the new date “disgusting ableists”

Sounds like she hasn’t done much maturing in that she comes across one coffee shop with access issues and gets straight onto the indo to kick up an almighty fuss.

Here’s the old thread
http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057709155/1

punisher5112 · 30-09-2017 10:51PM

One thing that really gets to me is people that are able bodied but yet will not fold a buggy for a wheelchair user....

Its only got worse now though as the new buses can facilitate 2 buggies but only one wheelchair user and one buggy.

I'm sick to death with the amount of fools I'm having to deal with.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 30-09-2017 10:52PM

She has 100% of my 'couldn't care less' for her campaign.

Ok she has a disability but it appears she expects everyone else to make allowances for her yet majes zero effort herself.

Costa should put steps outside their door to prevent her getting in, she might shut her big mouth then.

Wheelchair user can't pay by card,gets free coffee and still complains

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