McDonalds employees set world record for idiotcy - Page 15

TheCroShow · #**141** 11-14-2005, 07:38 PM

not going to bother reading the posts, but "idiotcy?" yeah the "idiotcy" amazing me...

Blarg · #**142** 11-14-2005, 07:39 PM

LOL, no, YOU got it wrong. He was not the girl's fiance. He was the manager's fiance.

mikech · #**143** 11-14-2005, 07:53 PM

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LOL, no, YOU got it wrong. He was not the girl's fiance. He was the manager's fiance.

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lol, just watched the report a second time, it wasn't made clear that he was donna summers's fiance until near the end when they say donna summers broke off the engagement upon seeing the surveillance tape. the first reference to him was only as "her" fiance. but yes, my bad! [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Jules22 · #**144** 11-14-2005, 07:59 PM

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/...WS01/510090392

a good article i googled up... some excerpts

`I have done something terribly bad,' man says

Louise Ogborn had been in the back office for nearly 2½ hours when the caller said she should kneel on the brick floor in front of Nix and unbuckle his pants.Ogborn cried and begged Nix to stop, she recounted in her deposition. "I said, `No! I didn't do anything wrong. This is ridiculous."

But she said Nix told her he would hit her if she didn't sodomize him, so she did.

sounds like the guy was a creep who decided he would try to take advantage of the already bizarre situation. hope he gets to spend the rest of his life in jail being sodomized by dudes

DMBFan23 · #**145** 11-14-2005, 08:05 PM

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to everyone here saying how stupid ppl are, and going on about the "manager" who got the blow job, DID ANY OF YOU ACTUALLY WATCH THE VIDEO?

he's NOT the manager, he doesn't even work there, and HE WAS THE GIRL'S FIANCE!

the 58-yr-old "maintenance worker"/janitor REFUSED TO FOLLOW THE COMMANDS of the police impersonator.

it amazes me how you're all in uproars about the "stupidity" of these ppl involved (perhaps deservedly so), yet so many of you are discussing the incident while completely confused about some of the basic facts of the case. ironic.

finally, one more thing about the fiance: besides it being really creepy that this balding, seemingly middle-aged bubba was engaged to a high schooler, how he got charged with sodomy and sexual abuse with the possibility of getting 35 yrs in prison is beyond me.

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Blarg · #**146** 11-14-2005, 08:11 PM

I thought the same as you at first. Something in the way they worded it made it sound like he was the girl's fiance. But then they said that the manager broke off her engagement with him, so I got it then. I was kinda suspecting though when the girl looked 16 and the guy looked like a fat 45 year old douchebag.

bwana devil · #**147** 11-14-2005, 08:32 PM

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does anyone else think it's possible that any of us would do something comparably irresponsible in this situation? seriously. I don't think this has much to do with intelligence. I think it has to do with a subscription to authority.

there was a psychological study a while back on the effects of authority (I forget the name of it, maybe someone knows). some random people were told they were participating in a study on the effects of electricity on the human body. they were sat in front of a video monitor where they could see their human subject (an actor), and a control pad for administering different "shocks." they were told to administer higher and higher levels of shocks until the actor would be writhing on the floor in pain.

many of the participants continued to administer the shocks until the subject "passed out."

I'm not saying that you guys would force an underage girl to give you head. but it's easy to say "god, people are so dumb sometimes." and it annoys me when it's dismissed as being that simple. it's not. it's human nature. and blaming it on so-called stupidity isn't doing anything to help the problem.

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stanley milgram was the psychologist. i mentioned this study right at the start of this thread but no one seemed to pick up on it. everyone wants to call the people "stupid" which is easy to disassociate themselves w/ these people. IQ doesnt make people follow orders.

it is mindboggling to watch this and believe it happened but study the milgram experiment or the standord prison experiment which someone else mentioned and youll be amazed what people will do when confronted w/ authority.

one note, the actors in the study werent visible to the participants. the participants were listening to tape recordings of people scream so the stimuli was the exact same each and every time.

RacersEdge · #**148** 11-14-2005, 10:56 PM

That is unbelievable. The manager should be beaten. The stupidity of these people is unreal. The girl needs to be given some blame as well - can she be that naive??

Nice detective work though. Good old google.

Cry Me A River · #**149** 11-14-2005, 11:16 PM

This is really stupid, however:

I just started at new job. It's a new location/expansion for the company in question and a little over half the staff are new hires. More than 100 new employees.

About a week before orientation, I get a call from someone who claims to be from my new employer asking for my SSN so they can set up payroll (I'd already given them my SSN during the interview process).

I basically reply, "Uh, you're calling me up out of the blue and asking me my SSN over the phone?" They replied that they were, like it was the most normal thing in the world. Instead of giving them my SSN I asked for a number to call them back.

I hop on the net and try to do a reverse look-up on the number to make sure it really is from my new employer. When I can't do that (because it's not listed in any directory due to it just being someone's office number and not a central number) I call the operator and have the operator verify that the number does belong to my new employer.

At which point I call them back and give them my SSN. They were quite surprised that I'd gone through the trouble. So apparently nobody else (more than 100 people) had any hesitation in giving out their SSN over the phone to a complete stranger who could've just grabbed a list of new hires out of a garbage bin and then looked through a phone book...

Yobz · #**150** 11-14-2005, 11:19 PM

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This is really stupid, however:

I just started at new job. It's a new location/expansion for the company in question and a little over half the staff are new hires. More than 100 new employees.

About a week before orientation, I get a call from someone who claims to be from my new employer asking for my SSN so they can set up payroll (I'd already given them my SSN during the interview process).

I basically reply, "Uh, you're calling me up out of the blue and asking me my SSN over the phone?" They replied that they were, like it was the most normal thing in the world. Instead of giving them my SSN I asked for a number to call them back.

I hop on the net and try to do a reverse look-up on the number to make sure it really is from my new employer. When I can't do that (because it's not listed in any directory due to it just being someone's office number and not a central number) I call the operator and have the operator verify that the number does belong to my new employer.

At which point I call them back and give them my SSN. They were quite surprised that I'd gone through the trouble. So apparently nobody else (more than 100 people) had any hesitation in giving out their SSN over the phone to a complete stranger who could've just grabbed a list of new hires out of a garbage bin and then looked through a phone book...

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What does having someone's SSN get you?