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ill-advised strategy
Are you kidding me? What’s my incentive to fight that battle?
If I refuse that guy:
Best case: gangbanger with sketchy dog pissed at me. Now I have to look over my shoulder. (I’m in that mode now, having recently intervened with a bike theft at the bus station...and a guy carrying a knife who threatened us before he fled)
Worst case: getting sued, losing my job, gangbanger finds out where I live and shoots my house up for “disrespecting” him.
If I let the guy on the bus:
Best case: nothing, life goes on
Worst case: dog injures someone and I do paperwork documenting gangbanger claimed his dog is a service animal. Legally have to take his word. I’m fine, life goes on.
What’s the union have to do with this incentive structure? I did a whole research project for my union local trying to codify how we could refuse fake service dogs....management fears the ADA lawsuit more than they fear injuries and inconveniences and societal consequences from incentivizing people to casually lie about being disabled. It’s not the labor, we’re pawns in this bullshit system.