AMC Anti-Masker Threatens Lawsuit After Patient Employee Offers Him A Refund

We’ve been dealing with the pandemic and masking for over a year now and yet staunch anti-maskers still don’t seem to understand what rights they actually have vs. the ones they’re making up on the spot.

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One man who was asked to wear a properly fitting mask at AMC Theaters threatened to file a lawsuit against the chain and didn’t seem to understand what a company policy is.

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A TikTok account called @nomuzzlez uploaded the series of three videos, with the first showing a man arguing with a theater employee who offered him a mask to replace the loosely fitting cloth he had put over his face.

“Well what if I don’t want to wear a mask?” he asks. “You’re a privately owned company, Governor Ducey just signed an executive order saying private companies cannot force me to wear a mask in their place of business.”

“They said it’s our choice,” the employee corrects him. “He said that it’s not mandated by the state, it’s our choice.”

He argues further and asks to see AMC’s policy regarding masks, which prompts the patient worker to point to the laminated sign next to him, explaining the policy in full.

“This is not a policy,” he argues.

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Of course, it is, and at that point all the manager can do is offer a refund for his ticket, to which the man replies he’ll be filing a lawsuit.

The other two videos in the series show the man continuing to argue the logic behind the policy, highlighting one of the major issues with stores being left to implement their own mask policies — employees who have nothing to do with the creation of the mandates are often left dealing with confrontational customers until they get bored or escalate things to the point of police getting involved. 

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“She’s just doing her job,” one TikTok user commented. “If you don’t want to comply don’t go there.”

Another suggested he go ahead and “file that suit, and then report back to us when it’s completely dismissed by the court.”

Of all the things to get angry about in life and to go to this amount of effort. Why not make a video about homelessness and how we could fix it by making the extreme rich pay a tiny bit more tax. But nope they’d probably say “that’s communism… but why should I wear a mask?!”

— DR (@TheRoonMeister) May 9, 2021

I hate that she has to deal with this. As a conflict-averse person, I have so much empathy and cringe on her behalf for that feeling of adrenaline where you don’t know how actively contrarian (and/or violent) they’re going to be.

— To Becca Again (@lpff) May 8, 2021

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Had an anti masker in the store I work in today. Threw a fit because we have a mask policy. Accused of trying to control him! Then used a racial slur at my coworker. he was asked to leave but not before calling us all a**holes. I do t get paid enough enough to deal with this!

— joyce (@joyce04291395) May 9, 2021

And people wonder why no one wants to work in the service industry.

— Yvonne Cardoso (@myleo2013) May 8, 2021

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*First Published: May 9, 2021, 9:58 am