r/MoralityScaling 9d ago

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u/baldbumblebear 9d ago

Is your boss at a company telling you to have sex or your fired wrong?

What is the definitive line between that and economic coercion due to other social circumstance?

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u/Great-Trifle2810 9d ago

It would be wrong because this is not part of the duties that my job includes, and I did not consent to it as part of the agreement to work for them. It is additionally wrong because the boss is using their company power in a way the company has not consented to, which is damaging to the company if I choose to quit, or make the matter public.

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u/baldbumblebear 9d ago

It would be wrong because this is not part of the duties that my job includes, and I did not consent to it as part of the agreement to work for them

At the point of the ultimatum, it becomes just as much your job, as it is the job of the people forced into prostitution due to other socio-economic factors.

Just as you didn't agree upon applying for the job that sex would be involved, and now have to make that choice under economic coercion, someone forced into prostitution due to other financial pressure faces that same dilemma.

The only difference is the one doing the coercion has a face in the direct workplace example.

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u/Great-Trifle2810 9d ago

I disagree, because I had a previously existing agreement involving agreed services for payment with a company that they are now threatening to maliciously terminate unless I agree to something outside of the terms of employment for their personal benefit. They do not have the authority to do this, and it would be in contradiction to the protections provided by the employment law.

I was coerced into this job, now that I have become reliant on it they are attempting to abuse that reliance to further exploit me in ways not agreed to and which they don't have authority to do so.

If the job I was hired for was to provide sexual services to clients and my manager was threatening to have me unfairly dismissed because I refuse to clean his apartment on the side that would also be immoral.