The power of social media has come to the aid of an upstate New York man with Asperger’s Syndrome who was berated by a customer while helping at a checkout line at his job.
On November 9th, Chris Tuttle, 28, was yelled at by a customer who complained that he was “checking her out too slowly,” as reported by Syracuse.com.
“I was too slow for her,” he said. “She said she had other stuff to do on a Saturday.”
Tuttle said he wrapped a candle the customer had purchased, but it fell from the front of the grocery cart to the ground and shattered. After he finished bagging her groceries, Tuttle said he smiled and wished the woman a nice day. He then thanked her for shopping at Wegmans.
But the woman wasn’t happy. She complained to his manager and continued to yell for everyone to hear.
Tuttle’s sister, Jamie Virkler, posted about the incident on Facebook asking her friends to help “cheer up her brother who had a tough day at work this weekend.”
As reported by NBC’s Today Show,
Jamie was simply hoping for a handful of comments she could print out for Chris to help him feel better if he was having a bad day. Instead, her post has since garnered nearly 100,000 likes and more than 15,000 comments in support of Chris from as far away as Australia and South Africa.
You can see her Facebook post below.
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