VA: Juice shop closes after employees discover owner’s brother is registrant.
A popular juice shop in Richmond, Virginia closed after employees discovered that the owner’s brother had a Florida criminal record for sexual battery. According to reporting by WRIC, staff became aware of the brother’s history and raised concerns about his involvement in the business.
As the situation developed, it appears the brother had worked for the business without being disclosed as a registrant to the other employees. Employees reportedly quit en masse, causing the business to close.
What do you think? Should the employee’s history have been disclosed or do you think it was was nobody’s business?
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,’ and have not attempted to take any type of accountability for the harm done in this otherwise harmonious work place.’
What harm was done in that workplace??
Was someone beat up??
My response to those who left -‘G’bye!’
By this standard, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orlando should close because the high sheriff’s brother is in a Florida prison for sex crimes against a child.
@Just sayin
Well, isn’t that IRONIC? Shows we are ALL human and make mistakes.
Different situation when it hits home.
Would be interesting to know how they feel about their bro and the entire topic altogether since they are now in the family by the ripple effect.
Though the difference here is did the bro work with the sheriff or in the dept when his crime was committed or just is related to?
I wonder how much dirty laundry each of these “Karen” employees has that they would feel uncomfortable having exposed and has nothing to do with making juice? Since “employee theft” was a noted marker I wonder how many of those upstanding Karen’s was actually covering their crimes by exposing someone else’s paid for past dirty laundry?
After reading the article, this was nothing more than a lame excuse to collectively quit and subsequently create a gofundme for compensation. They claim initially that it was because of the brother, but the letter they posted at the business also mentions they were displeased about the owners wanting to install cameras. The article also mentions something about employee theft being an issue. These employess definitely exploited an non issue and turned it into a cash grab via ignorant donors.
These people represent the problem, which is larger than we can imagine. To change the bad image former-offenders have, we must simultaneously attack/ or educate the public, the media, lawmakers, and public servants. In my opinion, it cannot be done alone but must be a consortium of public policy and professional associations that combine to pressure Congress for change. Congress and in a downhill roll, state and local ordinances created this draconian mess, and it will take combining groups like Florida Action, Human Rights, Mothers against the Registry, NARSOL, and more to make a difference. I think going state by state, case by case, is too slow, and change needs the policy makers, and they need voters to recognize the problems. Public servants in Florida should never have been allowed to forbid former offenders from access to emergency shelters, in the sheriff’s role as protector of the public, all the public. So he puts an officer at those mass shelters. There can be a case for doing away with the registry, but a phased change of eliminating public shaming and allowing police records to suffice, changing the registry to crimes of violence only, eliminating the criminal nature of unintentional failures to register on time could be a beginning.
In this case, how do you take the first step in the case of these employees? Maybe draft a letter of explanation to each employee that 1) addresses the accusations, 2) explains that no threat exists, 3) explains that all former offenders of any crime, serve time, and then deserve the opportunity to earn a living and meet expenses, 4) addresses the unfair plight of former offenders, 5) that personnel history and information is privileged and will not be made public for any employee, and 6) recognizes that the owner appreciates the rights of employees to quit, but that sudden action is unprofessional, jeopardizes the business, will not quality for unemployment, and such actions would be reflected in any future job referral. If this becomes a public news story, allow the letter content to be given the news agency.
Absolutely no one’s business. As some members here stated, if the person has not bothered anyone, why keep destroying people’s lives? As I said in previous conversations, if Johnny took someone’s life, and Johnny did 20 years in prison and then Johnny is out…Johnny will have a better life than us. Johnny can travel, Johnny can live wherever he wants, and Johnny won’t have an issue except someone would say..”Hey, that dude down the street is a badass ’cause he killed someone”….but us…well…ya’ll know what they would say….
So, I am not going to be pessimist, but my hopes to some day see the light at then of the tunnel fades by the day and by the hour. We took many names out of our list of “friends” who found out about me and questioned my wife about her choice of a husband…and my wife, always stood by me.
There is absolutely no politician who will even try to soften the blows thrown at our head because that is risking political and career self inflicted auto-suicide (pun intended here..LOL)…
So, these folks at the Juice Shop should open under a new name and that’s it. There is always a way around it…