{"id":219323,"date":"2010-01-23T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001232"},"modified":"2010-01-24T03:06:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T08:06:27","slug":"fast-food-managers-abuse-power-force-teenage-workers-into-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/219323","title":{"rendered":"Fast Food Managers Abuse Power, Force Teenage Workers Into Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Supervising nubile teenagers in a fast-food establishment does not mean that you have an open invitation to abuse your authority and demand sex from them. This seems that it would be a self-evident rule of management. It is not.<\/p>\n

“I felt like I didn’t have a choice,” [a former Starbucks barista] told ABC News.”I was ashamed and embarrassed. And I felt like he had complete control over my job… he knew all this stuff about my family and my friends and my school.”<\/p>\n

She says the supervisor would summon her for sex in hundreds of text messages, including one that said, “I’d liked to f— tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

“It was an everyday, numerous times a day occurrence,” [she] said. “And I just saw it and did what I had to do.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Starbucks supervisor (who, in a weird coincidence, has the same name as a rival coffee chain<\/a>) served four months in prison for sex with a minor–at the time, he was 24 and the barista 16.<\/p>\n

16-Year-Old Starbucks Barista Sues Over ‘Sex Demands’ at Work<\/a> [ABC News] (Thanks, Dan!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supervising nubile teenagers in a fast-food establishment does not mean that you have an open invitation to abuse your authority and demand sex from them. This seems that it would be a self-evident rule of management. It is not. “I felt like I didn’t have a choice,” [a former Starbucks barista] told ABC News.”I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}