Dirty Work, Dirty Resistance291people working in the fast food service industry. Since fast food work at-tracts many younger employees who can be unaware of what is legally andmorally defined as appropriate behavior by their supervisors, these em-ployees are more vulnerable to exploitation from sexual predators. These(predominantly) men were depicted by two reviewers as unconcerned withthe repercussions of making lewd comments to teenage staff members.The store owner I worked for was a creep. He’d constantly make sexualremarks towards myself and other 15 year old girls. He was later fired. . . gofigure. Watch out when working there.Our head manager also was a joke. He was the son of the man who owned ourstore (we were privately owned), and was caught doing drugs so his fathergave him the ultimatum of either rehab, or working at [our location]. Theman never knew what he was doing, hit on all the young female employees,was rude, and was better off not even showing up because when he did hejust ended up speaking out of his ass.Such disturbing experiences of the ubiquitous sexual harassment towhich workers are subject, serve to indict the food service industry as cor-rupt, morally repugnant, and dirty—an entirely inappropriate place foryoung adults embarking on what was often their first employment ex-perience.
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