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Licensing Board won't tolerate groping shuckers, ear-chomping brawlers and failing to tell cops about drunks with guns
By adamg on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 5:41pm
The Boston Licensing Board this week voted to suspend Durgin-Park's liquor license for two days because of an incident in which a now ex-oyster shucker kept groping a waitress even after she told him to stop and punched him.
At a hearing a couple weeks ago, waitresses testified the man routinely groped waitresses but that nobody thought to tell management.
The board gave Mama Blanca on Saratoga Street in East Boston a two-day suspension for a brawl that left one man missing half an ear.
The Bar Room on Broad Street lost its liquor license for three days because of an incident in which the bar confiscated a gun from a drunk man trying to enter the establishment and then didn't tell police about it for almost a day.
The establishments decide when to shut down. They can also appeal the punishments to the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission.
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what do liquor licenses have to do with sexual harassment cases?
Crime was committed
The guy's facing a charge of indecent assault and battery.
I still don't get it
Guy who works there is a jerk, gets accused of a crime, and nobody told management - yet the business is punished for what exactly? Employing a jerk accused of a crime that they apparently didn't know about? It's amazing anybody's allowed to do anything, if being in the company of jerks is a punishable offense.
The way I read it
was that there were implications that the entire resturant had an atmosphere of flirting, touching, grabbing, etc. Basically an enviornment of behavior that should have came to the attention of management before it lead to multiple indecent assaults.
That's probably it
I say "probably" because I didn't attend the meeting where Ferrer and Connolly (Ianella was absent) figured out whether a violation had occurred and then what to do about it.
Based on the hearing a couple of weeks ago, yes, several waitresses testified there was an environment of touching in general (backrubs, even), that this guy went way beyond that into "inappropriate" touching and that nobody ever talked to management and that the restaurant manager (part of the family that used to own the place) had no idea at all that any of this was going on, at least not until the woman fled in tears and then a cop showed up.
Indecent assault and battery is a felony and the board frowns on license holders who run establishments where felonies are allowed to happen. The board does not always punish places where felonies do happen - they tend to be lenient toward bars where, say, two patrons get into a fistfight before any of the bouncers can react - but something like this seemed to be something that could only have been allowed to happen given the overall atmosphere of the place.
Durgin Park
That one's bullcrap. I hope the ABCC overturns the city on that one. (Expletive) Ferrer and (expletive) Deval Patrick for appointing her. Seriously, everybody else who works there should get screwed out of a living because one guy is a sexual deviant? Disgusting.
Of course, Ferrer doesn't have to think about these things. Her working life is triple-digit billable hours and hack government jobs. She's apparently forgotten that some people actually work and don't have contracts and guaranteed paychecks drawn from the public trough.
Ummmm (expletive) you Will!
Ummmm (expletive) you Will! The reason the establishment got punished is because they knew that there was an employee sexually harassing other employees and yet they did nothing about it. Clearly as a man you know nothing about that, or maybe you do because you are the one harassing others at work. The establishment's management is at fault and although the employees will not work for two days, they will nonetheless get their pay check and will probably be happy that at least someone looked out for them because you can be sure no other employees will be gropped at that place.