Closing Time
So, this boss wasn’t terrible until we found out what he was doing. I actually used to like him a lot more than my main boss. In high school, I worked as a martial arts instructor. A lot of my friends went to this martial arts school and not actually my high school, so I was very close to them.
One of my friends happen to be 3 years older than me so when I was 16, she was 19. One of our bosses (not the owner of the school but second in command) was an older man who was a retired law enforcement officer.
Typically, my friend who was 19 would work the desk after teaching and close up the school at the end of the night (mop, vacuum, etc.) Typically that late, the only people there was our male boss and her.
Obviously, you can see where this is going…bottom line a few of us helped her get proof he was sexually harassing/assaulting her to get him fired because our main boss (older woman) didn’t believe her and accused her of starting trouble.
Well, it turns out he had actually done this to many other people who had never reported it and went off to college/quit, but he only ever did it to people who were legally of age (17+).
He was fired and banned from the property, but that was the extent of his punishment. He actually opened his own martial arts school a few years later, so I’m sure nothing has changed.
Honestly, this whole situation made me really sad and kinda ruined my whole view of my school but unfortunately my area has a lot of small tight-knit communities, so I know many teachers (regular school) who did inappropriate things (slept with student, struck a child, etc.)
Never got in trouble and were just asked to resign quietly. Not even fired. Most of these teachers went off to other larger schools in the area, got caught but this time got punished. Story credit: Reddit / mcguik3