{"id":640663,"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.com\/index\/640663","title":{"rendered":"Fast Food Managers Abuse Power, Force Teenage Workers Into Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/3174091324_9cc4745618_m-thumb-160x240-36282.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>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<blockquote><p>&#8220;I felt like I didn&#8217;t have a choice,&#8221; [a former Starbucks barista] told ABC News.&#8221;I was ashamed and embarrassed. And I felt like he had complete control over my job&#8230; he knew all this stuff about my family and my friends and my school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She says the supervisor would summon her for sex in hundreds of text messages, including one that said, &#8220;I&#8217;d liked to f&#8212; tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an everyday, numerous times a day occurrence,&#8221; [she] said. &#8220;And I just saw it and did what I had to do.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The Starbucks supervisor (who, in a weird coincidence, has the same name as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timhortons.com\">a rival coffee chain<\/a>) served four months in prison for sex with a minor&#8211;at the time, he was 24 and the barista 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/Teen\/teenage-starbucks-barista-sues-sex-demands-work\/story?id=9631145&#038;page=1\">16-Year-Old Starbucks Barista Sues Over &#8216;Sex Demands&#8217; at Work<\/a> [ABC News]<em> (Thanks, Dan!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;I felt like I didn&#8217;t have a choice,&#8221; [a former Starbucks barista] told ABC News.&#8221;I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GFh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}