# Is this for real? Too Busty for job **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712 "2012-05-22T14:04:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/1 "2012-05-22T14:04:57Z")
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](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: > [@](#): > > Odes said the company owners are Orthodox Jews who were offended by her attire. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/2 "2012-05-22T14:30:21Z")
I hope she sues the pants off of them! And maybe their lacy panties too. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/3 "2012-05-22T14:40:00Z")
I hope this doesn’t end up busting up the company. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/4 "2012-05-22T14:46:09Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > I hope this doesn’t end up busting up the company. Yeah, you don’t want them to go tits up. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/5 "2012-05-22T14:57:00Z")
Keep us abreast of the situation. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/6 "2012-05-22T14:58:52Z")
absurdity has reached new pinnacles. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/7 "2012-05-22T15:06:58Z")
I think she has a couple of good points. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/8 "2012-05-22T15:50:40Z")
I fully support this. Cross my heart. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/9 "2012-05-22T15:54:21Z")
Aww, reole? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/10 "2012-05-22T15:55:26Z")
Nip this! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/11 "2012-05-22T15:55:38Z")
Here’s all you need to know: > [@the OP's linked article](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/12 "2012-05-22T15:56:53Z")
> [@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, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/13 "2012-05-22T15:57:03Z")
They’re really making mountains out of molehills. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/14 "2012-05-22T15:58:40Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I am ashamed of how long it took me to get this. I’m sort of ashamed to have written it, so I think we’re even. And [I just got this joke over the weekend.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15035996#post15035996) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/15 "2012-05-22T15:58:45Z")
She hired Gloria Allred? Guess she is going tit for tat. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/16 "2012-05-22T15:59:13Z")
What a bunch of boobs! She should have nodded, then come to work the next day in a burkha. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/17 "2012-05-22T16:00:28Z")
Boobies. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/18 "2012-05-22T16:00:53Z")
They should motorboat… away… from those… dammit. You all make this witty repartee look so easy. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/19 "2012-05-22T16:09:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712/20 "2012-05-22T16:09:38Z")
I’ll be in my bunk. Reading the HR manual. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-for-real-too-busty-for-job/622712.md?page=2)