Monday, November 14, 2005
Know your rights
The world is not always honest. Didn't know that? Well, it's not. Here's an example. Know your rights. If someone claiming to be a police officer tells you over the phone to get naked and let someone search your body or demands that you perform sexual acts upon your manager's fiancé you don't have to do it. And, you know, even if it were a real police officer and said officer was in the room you still wouldn't need to do those things. OK?
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I literally just had to pick my jaw up off my desk. I'm at a total loss for words. WTF??!??!?!
Let's focus on a bit more than the hiring practices of McDonald's. This has to do with a woman believing that she had to do anything she was told because she couldn't afford to lose her job and because a sexual sociopath who has had a lot of time to practice his "craft" was manipulating her and the others who were involved. This also had to do with a man not employed by McDonald's taking advantage of a situation. "What did you say, 'Officer'? You want me to force this woman to perform sexual acts upon me or she'll go to jail? Okay!"
I feel very sorry for the woman who had to go through this, but . . . I can't help thinking, "WTF?" During more three hours of this, no one thought to call the police, the manager, or a district supervisor to check that this was legit?
I kept thinking that the fiance had to be in on it because why else would you do such things to another person or believe that a police officer would ask you to do them.
Poppy, well said.
Lisa- here's why-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
THAT is truly horrifying, AC. Both that people in general would behave like that and that I'm just as likely as anyone to do such horrible things or allow such horrible things to be done to me.
There's something related on Snopes as well!
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/pollster.asp
That manager should have just hung up the phone...
I saw that Poppy... and Lisa, this was done to a girl, a 16 year old girl and they took her keys, her purse and her cell phone.
We need to teach our daughters that it is OK to say NO. The worst thing that could have happened if she refused to cooperate is that they really would have called the police (who would have called her parents to protect her).
That manager showed an appalling lack of humanity and sense and should be prosecuted.
She was 18. Although age is certainly relative. There are plenty of kids half my age who are twice as street smart. And plenty of people my age who still think the world is filled with shiny happy people who would never do them harm.
And I'm not putting the blame on the victim. Or, at least not entirely. As I said in my (poorly worded) comment---"no one" thought to question this or take any action to help the girl. The manager, her fiance (bastard!), the maintenance worker, the coworker. Two people had the common sense not to go along with the caller's requests, but that didn't translate into any action beyond getting themselves out of the situation.
I find the whole thing so perplexing, but I shouldn't judge too harshly because I wasn't in any of their shoes. Well---I judge the fiance harshly. He's an ass.
Oh, and what's the deal with releasing the video? Bad move on whoever's part. (For the record: I didn't watch it. My squirm tolerance is too low for that.)
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