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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 122 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How will the logistics of this work? Are there fast-food restaurants that would accept a privileged Karen with anger management issues as a member of their team? After all, they have a business with tight margins to run, and this sounds like a huge liability.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 113 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Free labor, and keep her away from customers. Cleaning, prepping, whatever. If she causes problems, she violates probation and serves the rest of time in prison. Give the store an incentive to deal with her. With thin margins, I'd take those odds. Fuck threatening to fire; if you fuck up, you go back to prison. "Now clean the damn fryer's like your freedom depended on it"

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 79 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't keep her from customers. Let the Karen deal with the Karens. Poetic justice.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

Let the Karen deal with the Karens

It'll be like dragon ball, but with more screaming.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Prison for throwing food? Shitty behavior yes but wtf. She's got 4 kids too.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

It's battery, and the fact that she thought it was a reasonable course of action means that she needs to be given a bit more than a slap on the wrist fine.

I know people might say anger management therapy would be better, but these types of people will never admit that they were in the wrong in the first place. They'll twist things into a persecution complex.

Making her walk a mile in their shoes is an exceptionally good way to address this kind of behavior, and it's an alternative to jail time.

But, it's not like she would be given years in prison for it. It's basically like a forced timeout. Hell, even 2 weeks in jail might be enough to change things.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago

She isn't going to prison. She is getting jail time. If she were that concerned about her 4 kids, she shouldn't go around assaulting fast food workers.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

If this is how she treats people she doesn't even know, how do you think she treats her kids?

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Many, many fast food restaurants are super short staffed because no one wants to do the job at the current market rate. If she actually tried she could find one in a day.

Also, fast food margins really aren't that tight.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As long as this is only for this one case I'm ok with it, but I really don't want to see this become a trend to force people to work for these companies who are unwilling to pay willing workers a sufficient wage.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was an optional punishment that she chose over doing 90 days in jail. I don't fear it becoming a trend since most people don't assault fast food workers in the first place.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but even as an optional punishment, and punishment for a crime shouldn't be made to benefit corporations.

[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 9 points 11 months ago

The article says she has yet to find the job.

Good luck finding someone to hire you for only two months as punishment for abuse. I'm sure they're scrambling for predetermined extremely short term employment from a toxic pile.

[–] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Id guess working "fast food" in the commissary