In a sane world this would go nowhere.
Maybe if they can prove she intended to drive him to kill himself, but that is rather difficult to prove.
This is really stupid. Seriously.
This seems like it is ripped from L&O as a classic Jack McCoy squirrel case.
I feel bad for the kid but I know of no possible REAL application of law that would punish a work manager for being too hard on someone. Even a kid can quit a job.
It is just like I don’t understand “cyber-bullying”: If you stay off sites where it occurs you won’t feel it, will you? If people were saying the worst most vile things about me on FB or Twitter or whatever it wouldn’t bother me b/c I wouldn’t know.
And we all know about the CREVO wars here... ;)
I’ve had worse bosses than that. I’m in culinary school and been bullied by lab assistants 30 years my junior for dropping lettuce on the floor!
If suicide is defined as "taking one's own life", then how can Branham be the PRINCIPAL cause. And under what slavery rights did Dairy Queen have over this employee that he couldn't just say "F-Off" and walk off the job?
To call this an over-reach is a gross understatement.
Lets explain to the snowflakes that this is their best path to impeachment!
This is idiotic. You are responsible for your own actions, no one else. This individual had many options, including qutting to work somewhere else. This is more of the liberal BS that people are not responsible for their own actions. What’s next, robbers get off because someone bullied them into robbing a bank or store. This is the liberal world.
Is it too late for me to sue my Drill Sergeants from Army Basic Training? They were REALLY MEAN to me and called me, ‘Maggot’ and a whole host of other mean stuff!
*SNIFFLE*
I’m sorry this kid wasn’t mentally equipped for EVERY DAY LIFE. I say she counter-sue the parents for raising such a weakling. I’d also look into it further to see if it was a case of unrequited love. 17 year old boys get crushes on older women.
See? Those Drill Sergeants, in turn, made ME into one mean sonuvabeotch...who thinks things through for herself. ;)
*SMIRK*
Note to self: stay outta dairy fag. It's full up with crazy.
Darwin: survival of the fittest. The girl was a cun# and the kid was weak and pathetic. If he could not take a little hazing he was never going to make it far in life.
Gotta be kidding me. I worked in my dad’s restaurant from age 13 to 18 and saw a lot worse than that. Working there was the best thing I ever did even though I didn’t think so at the time.
It makes more sense to charge his parents? Did they make him get this job? Did they insist that he keep his job? Are they divorced? Didn’t they teach him anything about life and his freedom to quit this job?
The girl has poor management and stress management issues. If she wants the job bad enough, this can be assisted with the proper training. I do not think this manager should be charged with murder, not even involuntary manslaughter.
The problem was within the young man. If he was having a hard time, he should have either told someone about it, as with his parents, or he should have quit that job and looked for another.
Some folks are raised in a manner that leaves them vulnerable to every little smirk or imaginary sarcasm they believe to be seeing in other people. Too delicate for the world unless they make a choice to leave that weak character behind in the family scrapbooks. The parents want to blame someone. Blaming and scapegoating will not change what happened. Sad that this boy could not have opened up to anyone on how badly he felt. Someone at home was negligent to have left a gun where it was accessible to him.
I had a nasty woman boss at Artur Treacher’s Fish’n’Chips. I found it much easier to quit.
This is very dumb.
Girl power! /s
I don’t think she did anything criminal. The closest thing listed in the article is throwing a burger at the teenage employee. (The manager is fairly young, 21, herself.)
She should be fired and her actions made a public record (which has happened).
Employer should be liable for financial damages in a civil trial the same as if the employee had been forced to leave due to a manger creating a hostile work environment.
For the teenage employee continue to work in this environment is untenable. But he is responsible for taking his own life.
Sounds like the environment at the public school he attended was the bigger problem.
I understand grieving parents wanting someone to pay for hurting their kid. But putting this girl in prison for manslaughter is not the way to do it.
This is utterly ridiculous snowflake judicial travesty; if you don’t like your job, quit. Or be a man and tell the boss off and get fired.
Bullying? That’s why 4:00 AM was created.
This makes me want to go out and hire teens so much more. Good luck with hat.
I had to do that in my dad's restaurant as a teenage every time I had to clean under the grill and steam tables that were bolted to the floor. If you're such a tender-ass that this sort of task is considered demeaning, you better buckle down on your chemistry and math studies, snowflake.