perceived authority

[slam]

quite possibly the most fucked up thing you'll read today:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051009/NEWS01/510090392

[withoutcanseco]

i saw this on the news. if people weren't so stupid and gullible, nothing like this would ever happen.

[Diamond Vision]

"Maybe you and I wouldn't have done this, but how do we know?"

I know becuase you can't strip search anyone over a stolen purse. As part of a management team at Starbucks, I know you don't accuse anyone of stealing! not customers, not employees. You document the date/time of the incident and check the cameras. You let it slide if you don't have incontovertable evidence. You definately don't sodomize an innocent girl suspected of theft. These people should be in prison for 20 years.

"Bullitt District Court Judge Rebecca Ward initially dismissed the charge against Summers, saying she "definitely exercised poor judgment ... but was as much a victim as Miss Ogborn.""

Oh, the manager who called her fiance in to sexually molest her employee is as much a victim as the teenager who was assaulted? Yeah? oh yeah?
Sorry, Miss. Summers, if you don't feel my overwhelming sympathy flowing in your general direction. bitch.

This is reprehensable! I thought we learned from the Nazis that "just following orders" is not a justfiable defense. I hope every person involved in violating these people are in jail now. Even if you dropped out of 2nd grade, you should know, "no touchy!"

[slam]

i'm of the general feeling that anytime you're standing in front of a naked, crying teenaged employee... well, you've probably done something very, very wrong.

[withoutcanseco]

man...i just reread parts of that. it's so fucking ridiculous that i have trouble believing that it happened.

[JVO]

Well said Slam.

I wonder if the Manager could be sued in a civil lawsuit. I certainly think they should be able to, even if they had no idea what was going on, the idea of forcing one of your employees to strip is so outside the bounds of logic, I don't know how anybody could fall for it.

[larryhead]

It's a long article, but the most fucked up part was when the caller somehow got the girl to strip and then give that guy a blowjob. And they mentioned some other case where the caller convinced a manager to finger his employee's vagina to search "for contraband". I mean.... WTF. Seriously.

:(

[professor booty]

Doesn't it sound like part of a plot from a bad porno? Naughty teenage girl needs to be disciplined...sex acts in the work place...and the sick older guys doing it thinking "she probably deserves/wants it."

The whole thing is fucked up. I can't guarantee that the managers would not have followed orders to inflict ordinary physical torture if commanded by the telephone police officer, but I think that the sexual aspects of these hoaxes led a lot of people to throw away any thoughts of decency.

It saddens me that people can do horrible things to another person for no real reason and not recognize the humanity in that other person.

[slam]

i think a lack of empathy is one of the primary afflictions bringing out country down.