I’ve seen this on three venues already this morning:
New Jersey Woman Says She Was Fired For Being Too Busty
A New Jersey woman says she was fired from her job after her manager told her to “tape her breasts” down, and now has filed suit against the company claiming religious and sexual discrimination.
Former data entry worker Lauren Odes said that after two days with Native Intimates, a midtown Manhattan wholesale lingerie company, a supervisor told her the store owners were not happy with her outfit, suggesting it was too “distracting.”
“When I first started working there, I asked what the dress code was, and I was just told to look around and see what everyone else was wearing,” Odes said in a press conference Monday. “So I did. The dress was very casual athletic wear to business attire.”
http://gma.yahoo.com/jersey-woman-she-fired-being-too-busty-015114881--abc-news-topstories.html
You know that the news services are going to pick this up – it’s too sexy not to. But a lingerie company objecting to a highly-visible employee being too busty ? Seems like a golden advertising opportunity.
And, yes, I know the article states:
But you’d think her figure (and attire) would’ve been obvious when they hired her.
If it weren’t for the bad publicity, I’d suspect manufactured outrage.
“I do not feel an employer has the right to impose their religious beliefs on me when I’m working in a business that’s not a synagogue, but sells things with hearts on the female genitals and boy shorts for women that say hot in the buttocks area,” she said.
I hope she sues the pants off of them! And maybe their lacy panties too.
I hope this doesn’t end up busting up the company.
Yeah, you don’t want them to go tits up.
Keep us abreast of the situation.
absurdity has reached new pinnacles.
I think she has a couple of good points.
Here’s all you need to know:
Now, attorney Gloria Allred has filed suit against Native Intimates with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
“The treatment was discriminatory, profoundly humiliating and unlawful,” Allred said.
Shodan
May 22, 2012, 3:56pm
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Marley23:
Aww, reole?
I am ashamed of how long it took me to get this.
Anyway, it is good to see that this woman is way out front on the sexual harassment issues.
Regards,
They’re really making mountains out of molehills.
I’m sort of ashamed to have written it, so I think we’re even. And I just got this joke over the weekend.
She hired Gloria Allred? Guess she is going tit for tat.
What a bunch of boobs!
She should have nodded, then come to work the next day in a burkha.
They should motorboat… away… from those… dammit.
You all make this witty repartee look so easy.
Something something boobs something something
I’m more curious about the orthodox Jewish owners and the name “Native Intimates” which makes me think she should be wearing some tacky buckskin “squaw” dress-up costume.
I’m not saying orthodox Jews can’t enjoy/sell lingerie. The name throws me though.
I’ll be in my bunk. Reading the HR manual.