Mats, Lies, and UWM

Sergeant Jason Hess believes he deserves an apology after being insulted by an employee of West Allis, WI based Discount-Mats.com.

He's still waiting.

According to Milwaukee's NBC affiliate, no direct apology has been given to Hess.

The owners of Discount Mats are so worried about the possible backlash from the controversy over the employee's actions. They consider themselves to be in danger; yet the company doesn't bother to personally apologize for the employee's behavior.

It seems like owner Faisal Khetani doesn't really understand the depth of the insult.

The company's owner, 23-year-old Faisal Khetani, fired the employee who sent the e-mail. He told TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Mick Trevey the e-mail does not represent the views of the company. Ramzan Khetani, the owner's dad, said, "I am ready to apologize you know - on their behalf. Because that is not the right way to talk to anybody."

If the owner's dad is ready to apologize, then he should urge his son to send Sgt. Hess an e-mail doing exactly that.

But the soldier who received the controversial e-mail wrote reporter Trevey Tuesday to say he has not received any apology directly from the company. He indicated, "They should have emailed me for one, my email (address) is posted everywhere so they cannot say we don't have it."

A message left on Faisal Khetani's cell phone Tuesday was not returned.

Frankly, I'm surprised that Khetani didn't already apologize to Hess.

As Ramzan Khetani said, what the employee wrote "is not the right way to talk to anybody."

So isn't it time to try and right the wrongs?
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Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger notes that the offensive e-mail sent to Sgt. Hess had a UW-Milwaukee address.

He writes that the account used by the individual belonged to a student who hadn't been at UWM since 2004.

The university doesn’t require former students to relinquish an e-mail address once they are not enrolled as students.

It appears to be a former UW-Milwaukee student living at home operating a website as an e-tailer who fired off the attack e-mail using the business name.

Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger suggests that there is no employee that's been fired. Instead, he thinks "Faisal Khetani is the individual who took the cheap shot at the military and is now hiding under his bed like the sniveling little coward he is."

I think that's a reasonable conclusion. Taking Faisal Khetani's age into account, it seems to fit.