re: John Besh Steps Down as Head of Restaurant Empire

Yep. At the end of the day Besh will still be rich as hell whatever happens, if the TP has its way the losers in this will be employees and the city.

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One of the more troubling aspects of this whole thing. A garbage company that has all but completely abandoned the city as far as having any real legit presence here, basically setting out on a mission to destroy a locally entrenched growing enterprise that employs 1000+. So heroic.

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If the article is baseless, why do you think The Advocate decided to report the same thing?

And if it is a bunch of garbage, I would think Mr. Besh would be brewing up a lawsuit of his own.

LOL
Either that or the food doesn't fill him up enough and he leaves hungry

I don't base my decisions off emotions.

That's not a defense of Besh and "his" organization, BTW.

ETA: I would however expect working in the service industry to come with a different level of "sexual" stuff to be expected compared to other jobs. Everyone I've ever talked to that works in the industry explains it as such.

ETA 2: Also not saying that the alleged actions are OK.

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How many would be pissed off if their wife had no recourse when these things happened and there was nothing she could do about it, but really needed the job to help support the family.

Just work, right? What's the big deal? Right?

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The first time something like that happens, report it. If nothing is done when you report it, then quit. Find another job. If you are working in a restaurant, it's probably not hard to find another similarly paying job.

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I wonder how many here would like to see their wife groped by some line cook grabbing her arse, breasts or between her legs after she was backed into a corner and then taunted about it day after day.

How many would be offended if their next door neighbor really screwed up at work and it was brushed aside with little more than a comment and then their wife did something minor and got her arse ripped in front of the entire work team.

How many would be pissed off if their wife had no recourse when these things happened and there was nothing she could do about it, but really needed the job to help support the family.

Just work, right? What's the big deal? Right?

What if the owner of the company was doing those things to your wife too?

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I'm not sure why you're directing this response at me, MD. I'm not defending anybody over the alleged accusations. However, I would like to see what happens once the legal process plays its course. If it turns out the accusations are true then there absolutely should be consequence. I think until then everybody not involved should probably just settle down a bit.

I still have my Vernon Roger cookbook even after the diaper incident so I'll keep my Besh book.

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I still have my Vernon Roger cookbook even after the diaper incident so I'll keep my Besh book.

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Is the Roger one good? And which Besh Book? Looking for good cookbooks here.

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Well, if you see they aren't going to do anything about it, and you feel really uncomfortable and it is not a safe place for you to work, then you should quit. I'm not saying that it has to stop at quitting, you can involve the legal system if it was serious, but you shouldn't keep putting yourself in that situation.

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That sounds simple, but it's not always that simple. Quitting means no job and no pay until you find another one, unless you can prove a right to unemployment compensation. Many folks can't afford that. Involving the legal system is slow and doesn't put food on the table.

I will be surprised if we see much in the way of litigation of these allegations. There's a lot of smoke out there. I won't be surprised if there are a lot of settlements which means we may never know what's fact or fiction.

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I wasn't Hat. You started the thread and I clicked on the first post.

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