City worker reinstated after profanity-laced incident

Atara Smith has been rehired by the town.

A metropolis tobacco inspector fired for cursing out a bodega proprietor who allegedly hurled racist and sexist slurs at her has been given her job again.

Atara Smith, 37, and her companion had been about to present Sadek Connoisseur Deli within the Bronx a summons for promoting tobacco to a minor when the profanity-laced altercation with retailer proprietor Sadek Almhillah occurred.

Almhillah denied calling the town Division of Shopper and Employee Safety staff the n-word, calling Smith a “f–king bitch,” and telling her to “suck a d–ok”, throughout the November 2019 incident, data present.

Despite the fact that data from the town’s Workplace of Administrative Trials and Hearings present a choose discovered the deli proprietor was “not a reputable witness” and had deliberately tried “to incite an offended and emotional response” from the inspectors, Smith was axed in December for repeatedly used the F-word.

Smith appealed and on Could 6, the town Civil Service Fee reinstated her, discovering that although her conduct was “extraordinarily unprofessional,” “the actual circumstances of this case don't warrant the utmost punishment of termination.” and as a substitute, modified Smith’s punishment to “time served.”