Between these bullshit stories and BCO columns, how do you not have a rage stroke almost daily, Pinkham? Part of me is just so thankful I got out of food service and these things are not personally happening to me. The other part of me wants to inflict serious vigilante pain on these assholes.

jezbanned wrote:

I worked in a science library at a Christian university during college. Good gig, and I always took the opening (10 am) shift Sunday, because no one would come in, so I could work and do homework/be hung over at my desk.

Im a librarian and we will have kids there till close alone. Its a huge bummer, I work in an area with a really high poverty rate and we make sure everyone has done there homework and I give them snacks from my programs to make sure they have at least eaten something till they get home. The really little ones are…

Because he was four. Four-year-olds by definition can’t take care of themselves to that extent. They can play by themselves at home while an adult is in a different room nearby, but the mall is not their house, the bookstore is not the playroom, and the bookstore employees are not paid child-care workers. There’s an…

It’s not that simple. She left him alone in a place of business, essentially making the employees responsible for him, regardless of whether they wanted to be or not.

It was really a liability issue, combined with the age of the child. If something had fallen on him, if he’d fallen and hit his head, if he’d been kidnapped? We live in way too litigious of a society for my manager not to be super concerned about the possible ramifications of a small child alone in the store. Plus…

Ha! By which I mean, sorry. Not food related, but that reminds me of being in the Air Force and manning an airplane during a static display at an airshow/open house. Sensing the kids’ excitement, and knowing there wasn’t much damage they could do, I allowed kids to sit in the seats, push buttons, pull levers, make…

Because a book store isn’t a babysitter and you can’t just leave your kids. Well behaved or not, parents can’t just dump their kids elsewhere to go get their nails done/eat food/shop/whatever. Don’t want to have to deal with your kids? Get a babysitter before you go out.

Or at least, fuck Church Groups who don’t seem to have attended an actual service rather than a self-congratulatory circle jerk in the last thirty years.

Yeah, that’s pretty standard shit at a bookstore. I worked at a place that was about a block away from a Cheesecake Factory. Mom and two cute kids in the 4-7 range came in around 11 AM one weekday morning. Mom disappeared shortly thereafter and the two kids hung out in our kids section (which had toys to play with…

One of my favorite comic book stores is in a local mall. And one of the reasons they’re my favorite is one trip when a dad was about to walk out leaving two young kids behind to shelf surf, an employee called out “We’re not babysitters!”

There’s a new commercial on Hulu for United Methodist Churches that says “Church can happen anywhere” ...that phrase really scares me for some reason...like I’m going to wake up in my house, go downstairs, and there’s church going on.... gives me the chills.

Sure. If someone told him at some point that’s what he had to do. Considering that he started unpaid, it’s entirely possible that no one ever told him (or his job coach).

Not in California, apparently. Last year I was searching for jobs and the majority of what I was qualified for was ABA work (with autistic kids). One job posting advertised paid training. I went all the way out to Torrance, CA. This crackpot lady, at the end of the interview, told me she’d decided to change the setup…

Good point. Can’t trust the autistic guy or his family. Trust the people who forgot to pay him for working for a year. They are clearly on top of things.

It gets worse, actually.

I suspect it’s because it’s a program for adults with intellectual disabilities and it was viewed as a way to sell it to business because of a fear they wouldn’t be good workers.

If he was there as part of a supervised work program, no way was he getting paid under the table.

I find it hard to believe that the management couldn’t get him to clock in given the importance of routine to many autistic people. It seems more likely that they never bothered to ask him to.