This is an almost unbelievable story about a Wendy’s restaurant manager strip-searching employees after a telephone call:
http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2004/02/25/news/news02.txt
It was actually four different managers at four different restaurants, each acting in response to a bogus phone call.
They aren’t working in a Wendy’s because they’re geniuses. The system works.
I don’t the employee not telling the manager to go have sex with him or herself.
That’s what I would have done. And when I was a manager, my employees would have told me to do that if I came to them and said "A cop called and told me to strip search you, take off your clothes.’
I would be happy if we could wage a war against spinelessness.
That’s why people like you and I don’t work at McDonalds or Wendy’s.
I used to work at McDonalds. I was 16 years old. The managers on the night shift were around 20 years old. All of us are on to bigger and better things all these years later but back then we were kids. I’m not sure what we would have done in the same situation.
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What is going on here is the “second lieutenant syndrome”. Somebody with very little experience and some authority is more likely to abuse that authority, especially when stoked on by what appears to be greater authority, than would somebody with more experience.
“Now, just you hold on a darn minute, there.” is not a young man’s turn of phrase, after all.
Dogface, you are wise beyond your posts.