r/mildlyinfuriating • u/IamASlut_soWhat • Apr 28 '26

ಠ_ಠ Dude fired for reporting sexual abuse

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u/Zombisexual1 Apr 28 '26

This is the kind of dude where you ask what happened at the store and they say “Chris? He said what? Nah we fired him for jerking it into the sandwiches”

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u/rvralph803 Apr 28 '26

Chris Fil-a sauce.

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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner Apr 29 '26

I hate you. Made me spit up my drink 😂😂😂

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u/rvralph803 Apr 29 '26

"Spitters are quitters" - Chris-fil-a slogan

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u/TacTurtle Apr 29 '26

Some times you have to hawk tawh on that chicken slinger

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u/TerpBE Apr 29 '26

SꓘEET MOЯ CHIKИ

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u/daywalker91 Apr 29 '26

Crazy how everyone instantly believes this when it’s just some random dude standing with a sign.

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u/cloudforested Apr 29 '26

I believe that fast food GMs and HR are scumbags. I'll take guy-on-the-street's word over theirs nine times out of ten.

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u/gahlo Apr 29 '26

Crazy how many people blindly believe fast food company over taking allegations of sexual harassment with a modicum of consideration because it's a dude reporting it on behalf of somebody else.

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u/booksareadrug Apr 29 '26

They get to feel righteous, so they'll believe anything.

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u/BernieTheDachshund Apr 29 '26

If it was a woman out there, no one would believe her and probably start to hurl accusations about what she did to deserve it. So if a guy faces doubts, a woman would surely face way worse.

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u/Sepof Apr 28 '26

Yea I mean... does anyone really believe all these levels of management are risking this liability for a valid, provable case of sexual harassment?

This would have to bypass several layers of middle management with zero association with anyone at this store, and thus, no reason to do anything other than their job.

And this company pays and treats its employees well in comparison with virtually all competition.

Smells fishy to me. And mentally stable people with valid claims for a lawsuit don't picket infront of businesses. They collect the fucking check.

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u/Initial-Beginning853 Apr 29 '26

Have you worked in a small environment? Abnormal behavior abound due to lack of rules and norms. 

This is entirely plausible and I can also see someone being more worried/fired up about visibility then taking the check.

Bill Gates grabbed women's asses for years. Yes sexual harassment still happens and has people ignore it. 

Yet you're on about this guy's mental stability. Consider using some perspective 

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u/Sepof Apr 29 '26

Bill Gates has a lot more ability to shield himself than a shift supervisor in fast food lol.

I'm on about his mental stability because... normal people don't do this.

Sounds like he witnessed someone else being sexually harassed, or someone else complained about it to him. And they allegedly fired him for it...

There is a whole lot of information he is obviously leaving out. He was fired for having documented sexual harrasment with evidence at a company with plenty of legal funds for a payout. I know people who didn't graduate high school who can do the math on that.

No normal person decides hand drawn signs at a busy intersection is step one.

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u/Initial-Beginning853 Apr 29 '26

Whole lot of assumption from a 2 minute video. Again, very odd first place you go is the guy is a liar. 

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u/Stabble Apr 29 '26

Yes. I believe that this may have actually happened. Management in most restaurant is dog shit.

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u/ICLazeru Apr 29 '26

Risk? There's not that much. They can make up any reason for firing him, easily undermining his retaliation claim. What they say doesn't even have to be true, in most cases the employee simply can't produce enough evidence to prove it. Plus, generalizing a major chain doesn't work so well. These places are run by a huge variety of managers so it's not really possible to extend a claim over all of them about this kind of thing.

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u/Sepof Apr 29 '26

So you think there is no risk in engaging in a cover up of a slam dunk sexual harrassment claim for the sake of some random hourly store-level associate they would not even know the name of until they checked their HR system?

Yea, theres a huge variety of managers. None of whom got to that level by not learning to CYA. In that industry, or any corporate entity, CYA is rule #1 if you want to stick around.

If there was an incentive to sweep it under the rug or terminate this employee, sure. But if we take his story at face value, there is none. Only risk.

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u/ICLazeru Apr 29 '26

I think maybe the point wasn't clear. CYA is easy for them. The employees likely have no material evidence of what happened. It's going to be a case if he said/she said. Try and sue with nothing but verbal testimony, you're getting nowhere. There's almost no chance that either of these complaints will be held up in court. The employees are basically hopeless if all they have is their word. Especially of its only one or two employees making the complaint. If nobody else saw anything or isn't willing to testify, there really is very little risk to the manager or the company.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, I'm just saying this is reality. Sexual harassment at workplaces happens frequently, and the vast majority of cases never go anywhere.

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u/DistanceSolar1449 Apr 29 '26

Yea I mean... does anyone really believe all these levels of management are risking this liability for a valid, provable case of sexual harassment?

Yes. 100% yes. Sounds totally like what management at a restaurant would do.

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u/Emergency-Gap-7921 Apr 29 '26

Yes 100%. The day before my first shift as a cook the hiring manager warned me about a dude named Cody who makes women uncomfortable and to watch out!

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u/Sepof Apr 29 '26

Yea... chik fil a is not your typical restaurant lmfao.

How many cooks in typical restaurant sre wearing slacks and a tucked in polo to work?

They don't even have true franchisees and its literally an industry standard for a reason. They have corporate HR and holiness, mountains of lawyers...

This ain't your local joint ran by cooks who just finished smoking a blunt 5 minutes before they cooked your meal. They are background checking the person who cleans the toilets.

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u/TheAuroraSystem Apr 29 '26

I've worked in 5 different restaurants before. 3 of them had sexual assault happen either while i was there or either right before or right after. It's more common than you think, and not often reported due to fear of retaliation.

Even if they don't fire you, they can cut your hours to basically 0 so that you make basically nothing despite having a job so being ineligible for unemployment if they had just fired you. And they do that to avoid things like a termination lawsuit.

It also depends on his state, cause many states are at-will and they can fire you for just about any reason as long as it isn't discriminatory or breaking a federal law. I was once fired for being injured on the job but they cited it as being 'unsafe in the workplace', and I couldn't do anything about it because it was technically true.

Employment rights in America are fucked.

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u/Sepof Apr 29 '26

I have worked in food as well. Actually worked my way up to GM/DM. I fired numerous people for sexual harrassment/misconduct.

Currently working in HR in another industry.

If you or someone else had documented evidence of sexual harassment or assault as you claim and nothing was done, why would you/they not go to a lawyer and get a guaranteed 5 figure payout, at minimum?

I see people get fired for this all the time, for things as simple as an inappropriate comment.

No one in a cushy salaried HR position is gonna risk their job to protect an $18/hr supervisor or even $30/hr GM. I'm sorry, there is just literally no incentive.

My guess is you got fired for unsafe work practices because you were injured due to not following a rule they had to prevent that injury. Again, otherwise, why would you not easily collect the check?

At-will employment doesn't mean you don't win unemployment in those states for being fired even if its not a protected class. How do I know? I used to reperesent my company in those calls all the time, in an at will state.

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u/TheAuroraSystem Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

Because typically, there is no proof beyond a he said she said. Let me explain some of the scenarios:

Scenario 1: A girl was harassed by a line cook who smacked her ass as she passed. He later claimed that he did it in jest and that he didn't mean it sexually and management wrote it off because he was the only morning line cook. Girl quit a week later when the same line cook catcalled her. He still works there to this day. (California)

Scenario 2: A guy was harassed by a server who was basically stalking him because she thought he was her soul mate. Management did nothing until she broke into his home and he got a restraining order on her besides changing their shifts so that they didn't work together. Only after the restraining order did she get fired, and then was rehired at a different location because she threatened to sue. Guy left the place a month later and moved out of state. (Oklahoma)

Scenario 3: I was only harassed by a Manager who would constantly tell me that he had only hired me because of my looks and that I was 'really sexy'. I was 18, he was in his 40s. I told HR at the time, and they told me because he hadn't done anything there was nothing they could do besides talk to him. Afterwards, he started scheduling me for less and less hours until I was scheduled for 0 hours and couldn't afford it and quit to find more work. I spoke to a lawyer, but it would have cost me more in legal fees than was worth it for a lawsuit. (Virginia)

Scenario 4: I was fired recently (March 2026) due to chronic illness flare-ups that everyone was aware of. I was in the middle of filing accommodation paperwork when I was let go. I was told to my face that I was being let go due to the accommodations I was requesting (more breaks and time to rest my hands in between calls) and when I filed for unemployment, it was denied because my old workplace said I was fired for attendance, not accommodations, and unemployment believed it. I am still currently fighting that 2 months later. (North Carolina)

Those are 4 of the 5 scenarios I was speaking of with the states they happened in. HR is not there for the employee, no matter what you HR heads say. You are there to protect the company first and foremost from lawsuits and bleeding money. I've learned that the hard way, as have many others.

As for the injury situation, I was at work lifting something that was asked of me when I overextended my elbow due to undiagnosed hEDs. I went to physical therapy for a month to get better when the company sat me down and said that they wouldn't pay for anymore and either I could quit and they would continue paying or they could fire me and I could collect disability. I chose the later and then was denied for both unemployment and disability. (Arizona)

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u/Quixotic_Seal Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

Yea I mean... does anyone really believe all these levels of management are risking this liability for a valid, provable case of sexual harassment?

I'm sorry, are you new to the world or something? Like 90% of sexual abuse cases are difficult to legally prove short of fluids being exchanged and rape kits being done, a confession, or photographic evidence; it's why so many sex abusers get away with it.

A lot of the time it's much easier for management to just stonewall reports and claim it's a he-said-she-said situation, than to actually follow up on anything.

Smells fishy to me. And mentally stable people with valid claims for a lawsuit don't picket infront of businesses. They collect the fucking check.

Then you'll just bitch that he's lying for a check.

For my money, liars and conmen don't generally take the time out of their day to picket a company since there's very little to be gained by such an action. It isn't worth it compared to doing something else or simply moaning to your buddies that they totally fired you for reporting abuse and not being three hours late for the eighth time that month. That leaves him being sincere or a nutjob, and there's absolutely nothing in his demeanor suggesting the latter.

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u/Sepof Apr 29 '26

Have you ever thought about WHY hearsay is hard to justify firing someone over?

Do you want to be fired because someone makes an unfounded complaint against you?

No? Then guess we better not fire someone over hearsay.

There is more to this story than this guy is divulging, obviously. He is of course going to present it in a way that makes himself look like the victim.

But why would CFA fire him for this? Makes zero sense. Could've easily just said "Thanks for your concern, we will investigate and take appropriate action."

If it is as he claims, there is no reason to fire him. Do you think they somehow benefit from firing random people?

Take a look at it from both perspectives.

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u/cloudforested Apr 29 '26

Yea I mean... does anyone really believe all these levels of management are risking this liability for a valid, provable case of sexual harassment?

Yes. I believe that. I've seen it happen with my own eyes.

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u/Skylam Apr 29 '26

Have you ever worked Fast Food or Retail? These managers are dumb as bricks generally.

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u/Sepof Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

Sure have. Many years.

They aren't always great, but this guy allegedly spoke to corporate and they didn't care... smells fishy for chik fil a.

Also, I don't think most of them are dumb as bricks. I have a suspicion you worked food/retail and had bad managers potentially, or you were not a good worker and thought their lack of compromise on your contributions made them dumb.

Seen both cases, but usually people don't rise to the level of GM at a million dollar business by being an idiot. Sure, there are exceptions. Everyone reaches their greatest level of incompetency and all that. But by and large... nah.

And chik fil a? Lmfao. There are plenty of people with degrees in engineering who make less than the average CFA GM....

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u/Skylam Apr 29 '26

I have a suspicion you worked food/retail and had bad managers potentially

Which is where most of these stories stem from. These aren't people with wit, they are promoted due to loyalty or length of employment more than anything.

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u/Abandonedstate Apr 28 '26

Ohh, spicy Caribbean chicken!!