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Monday, August 4, 2008
When the boss grabs the wrong girl
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There seems to have been a slightly different standard when it comes to sexual harassment in the restaurant and bar business than in the corporate world, but that may be changing.
In the corporate environment, people are pretty sensitive about what you can and can not do and for the most part, touching someone is totally off limits. I think we have all worked in a restaurant environment or witnessed employees in one that are extremely playful, touch one another, hug and play.
One of the manager’s of a local restaurant and bar that I go to had a reputation for touching the ladies on the bottom and grabbing them with both hands. We will call him Dennis the Menace. Most of the women who worked for Dennis would slap him and tell him not to do it again. Well, Dennis finally met his match when he grabbed the wrong girl in front of a customer. The server decided to take Dennis and his family’s restaurant to court.
The judge fined the establishment and decided that Dennis was not fit to live in the State of Georgia so he sentenced Dennis to leave the state for one-year as a term of his probation.
Sexual harassment is illegal and there is no tolerance for this type of behavior even in the bar and restaurant business which has not always been held to the same standard as the rest of corporate America.
What do you think- is it okay for a male manager at say, Hooter’s to be more touchy-feely with his waitresses than the CEO of a conservative corporation with his female administrative staff?
