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Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job (www.cnn.com)

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

see now this is a creative effective form of punishment: It's teaching her a lesson and hopefully rehabilitating her behavior. as opposed to getting an ankle monitor and being confined to house arrest or probation or community service or something, all which would do nothing to teach her how workers in the fast food industry should be treated with dignity and respect as fellow humans.

The only problem is imagine being the manager of a fast food restaurant and knowing that this vitriolic woman is on your staff and you need to keep an extra eye on her to make sure she doesn't lash out in anger at colleagues and customers

[–] aelwero 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No... No supervision... Fire her ass! Let her live with the reality of the situation, that those poor kids behind that register can and do get fired for the silliest of shit.

Make her have to job hunt for the rest of her punishment term lol. Only thing worse than working retail is having to beg some mid-20's "manager" for a shit retail job ;)

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I see your point, your approach is fine too. But just remember, working in fast food is a punishment in and of itself.

[–] aelwero 1 points 9 months ago

Babysitting a Karen who's court ordered to be there though? Minions that are difficult to get rid of can be a special kind of mess, ask anyone who was in the military for a while ;)

Not suggesting the firings be in addition to the sentence, just that she not end up being a fast food managers responsibility in any way. If she Karens as a cashier, she should be just as gone as anyone else. I'm suggesting she simply be allowed to self-inflict without any special allowances for the court order is all.

[–] logicbomb 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

One other problem is the punishment is mildly insulting to the victim.

"You have committed a crime. Your punishment is to involuntarily do the same job that your victim normally does."

[–] RizzRustbolt 2 points 9 months ago

"Aw sir... I'm standin' right here."

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 2 points 9 months ago

only mildly insulting when the person lacks humility, and in that case they need a good hard lesson in humility too.

[–] Skyrmir 2 points 9 months ago

Judges can't sentence anyone to work at a fast food restaurant. They can however make a deal with the defendant to do almost whatever they want, in lieu of the full sentence they would otherwise face.

Which means if the person doesn't complete their end of the deal, to the judges satisfaction, the full sentence would be applied.

So she has to do the job, well enough that the manager doesn't complain to the judge, or else she probably faces a few more months jail time on top of probation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Videos of the woman, Rosemary Hayne, berating Chipotle worker Emily Russell on September 5 and then throwing the food in her face at close range, went viral after the incident.

Hayne, a 39-year old mother of four, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and received the sentence last week in the Parma, Ohio, municipal court.

Asked if he would want to hire Hayne if he ran a fast food restaurant, the judge said he doesn’t think she’ll have trouble finding a job.

He said there was one case a couple of years ago in which a customer who didn’t get a cookie in a Happy Meal at a McDonald’s reached through the drive-thru window and started punching a worker.

Asked for a comment on the case, Chipotle responded: “The health and safety of our employees is our greatest priority, and we’re pleased to see justice served for any individual that does not treat our team members with the respect they deserve.”

One of Russell’s friends started a fundraising effort on social media for her and it has raised $7,300 so far, with most of that money coming since the first news reports about Hayne’s sentence last week.

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