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" Bruce Casper, from Pennsylvania, was recently fired from his position at Chili&amp;#039;s in Pittsburgh Mills Mall, and his girlfriend, Crista Miller, is making sure everyone knows the outrageous reason why. According to Miller, Casper often heard many Chili&amp;#039;s employees use the words &amp;quot;retard&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;retarded.&amp;quot; Casper, whose youngest of three, Kyron, has Down syndrome, informed the managers that he wouldn&amp;#039;t tolerate the offensive language. One manager then allegedly told him, &amp;quot;You can leave then.&amp;quot; Casper&amp;#039;s lawyer informed him not to discuss the indicent, but that did not stop Miller from venting on social media. Her full Facebook post below:  Please share: Chili&amp;#039;s in the Pittsburgh Mills thinks it&amp;#039;s OK to use the word &amp;#039;retarded&amp;#039; and call people &amp;#039;retards&amp;#039; (management and employees). Bruce has brought the use of this word up time and time again even requesting a meeting regarding it, and NOTHING was done. Yesterday, he was called a retard AGAIN in front of management and when he made it clear to everyone near that our son has Down Syndrome and he will not tolerate that word, management said, &amp;#039;You can leave then.&amp;#039; So he did. He went in today to work his shift and they had his shift covered. In two years, he has called off maybe three times due to a surgery he had and two that our son had. He&amp;#039;s never late and he goes in when others call off or when it&amp;#039;s asked of him. Apparently hate speech is allowed and even defended there\u2026 I would not call that place &amp;#039;family friendly.&amp;#039; This is disrespectful to not only my family, but everyone who knows someone with Down Syndrome or has Down Syndrome themselves!  Miller spoke to CBS and emphasized, &amp;quot;I want to make this clear. This is me going on social media posting this, not Bruce...There&amp;#039;s a right and there&amp;#039;s a wrong, and this is wrong.&amp;quot; Another Chili&amp;#039;s location offered a job to Casper, but he declined. A rep from the restaurant chain released a statement saying they don&amp;#039;t &amp;quot;condone&amp;quot; the kind of behavior occurring at Pittsburgh Mills Mall, and they are currently investigating. [via Yahoo] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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