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2015-11-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

Avis Car Rental Bars Israeli Executive From Renting

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-11-23 13:28|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Persons of Color (POCs) fighting brutal injustice by acting like dipshits. Interesting that Avis doubled down. Hopefully, that rumbling sound in the distance is repercussions.

Any resemblance to the discrimination suffered by black folks in the previous century is purely coincidental.

Posted by SteveS 2015-11-23 13:54|| 2015-11-23 13:54|| Front Page Top

#2 You should see their Facebook page - I think this is gonna leave a mark.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-11-23 14:04|| 2015-11-23 14:04|| Front Page Top

#3 On FB: "We have investigated the denial of a rental that recently occurred in Manhattan. We have found that we have been inconsistent in applying our policies with respect to documentation requirements with this customer, who has rented from us in the past without providing a second form of identification. We are committed to providing an outstanding car rental experience to our customers and believe that we should have done better here. We have spoken with the customer and apologized for the misunderstanding that occurred as a result of this inconsistency in applying our documentation policy, and the customer has accepted our apology.

We reiterate our policy that we do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. We intend to take steps, including additional training, to improve the consistency in our application of documentation policies."

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Posted by Frank G 2015-11-23 15:41|| 2015-11-23 15:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Next week it will be a tertiary form of ID.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-23 16:06|| 2015-11-23 16:06|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't rent from Avis from a couple bad run ins a few years back. Lost reservations delaying trips, rude employees, trying to charge for things I declined, etc. Seems they haven't changed much.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-11-23 16:21|| 2015-11-23 16:21|| Front Page Top

#6 The Avis FB reply Frank G posts is considerably more reasonable than the one I saw this morning. It does not address the claim that a single photo ID - international drivers license or passport - from many countries was officially all that was required from a lot of countries, supposedly including Israel. I suspect Avis is not so much anti-Semetic as they are caught between threat of lawsuit by Israeli customer, loss of business to bad publicity, and threat of lawsuit by employees of protected demographic.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-11-23 16:35|| 2015-11-23 16:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Interesting - from linked-in she used to work at Bloomingdales, but from google search she has a lawsuit against them. Also on linkedin she mentions HIV walks and other stuff

Posted by 3dc 2015-11-23 18:34|| 2015-11-23 18:34|| Front Page Top

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