6.4 Discussion: What should happen next?
Winifred Athembo; Nikhil Garg; Richa Kabaria; Sarah Kulewksa; Celine Wai Shan Li; Deirdre Maultsaid; Simrenprit Parmar; and Lesli Sangha
What should the employee, Mamie, do?
- Should Mamie have demanded that John return to the store to escort her out safely?
- Should Mamie have called a friend to come get her?
- Should Mamie file a report with the police?
- Should Mamie have a discussion with John about staying at the store in the evening instead of sneaking out early?
- Should Mamie inform John the next day before reporting this to the police to protect the souvenir shop’s reputation and image?
- Should Mamie call or email the owners the next day and tell them everything that has been going on?
- Should she alert the rest of the women at work?
- Should she organize a self-defense course?
- Other ideas?
What should the manager, John, do after Mamie tells him what happened?
- Should John have returned to the store to help Mamie?
- Should John help Mamie file a police report?
- Should John ask the owners to install CCTV cameras and hire a security guard?
- Should John organize customer service training?
- Should John organize safety training?
- Should John beg Mamie to stay quiet about his absences and promise he will always be around to help her close from now on?
- Should John request that Mamie work only during the day?
- Other ideas?
What should the owners do once/if they find out about the incident?
- Should the owners disregard the problem?
- Should the owners reexamine their employer obligations?
- Should the owners install cameras outside the store in the parking lot?
- Can the owners ban certain people from the store?
- Should the owners set up a security system?
- Should they hire security guards?
- Should they tell John to implement safety and anti-harassment training?
- Other ideas?
