Posted on 06/27/2012 9:25:47 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
I do not know Courtney Scaramella’s faith life. But I applaud the 23-year-old waitress for taking a stand against the owner and general manager of the Los Angeles sports bar where she worked when they decided to sex up the uniforms worn by female employees.
When she was hired by the sports bar nearly five years ago, Courtney and her fellow female employees wore a uniform of shirt and pants. But that changed recently, when the ownership ordered waitresses to wear tiny little school-girl skirts.
Courtney went so far as to try on the skirt, but the petite young woman found she couldn’t bend – even a little – without exposing herself. Her biggest fear was that some liquored up customer would pull off her skirt – which was fastened at the waist by mere Velcro – either by accident or intention.
After submitting a written complaint back in January, Courtney was no longer required to squeeze into an itty-bit skirt sized for a pre-teen girl. However, she contends, her hours were cut, and her income diminished.
Finally, management decided to rid themselves of their more-modest-than-thou waitress, according to Courtney. So now she’s fighting back with a lawsuit claiming sexual harassment, wrongful termination and unpaid wages.
Now, had young Courtney been a longtime employee of one of those so-called “breastaurants,” establishments that put well-endowed, underdressed waitresses on display for lustful male customers, I would have little sympathy for her.
Because she would have known what she was getting herself into when she took the unwholesome job.
But Courtney never tried to trade on her bodily assets. She passed up Hooters, Titled Kilt, Twin Peaks, Mugs and Jugs and other such beastaurants to take a waitress position at a sports bar where the required attire was not a tight-fitting tank top and short shorts, or plaid bra and matching tiny plaid skirt, but a less provocative shirt and pants.
It took great courage for young Courtney to refuse to accept the degrading new un-dress code the managers of her sports bar instituted.
Especially, in an economy in which most are inclined to hold on to even the most disagreeable job rather than risk joining the ranks of the out-of-work.
Again, I do not know her faith life. But I do know an act of Godliness when I see it.
“I wonder what all the middle aged office workers on this thread would think if the boss told them they should come to work in a thong and then fired them for non-compliance.”
Probably about the same thing they’d think when the business failed and they were out on the street anyway.
Part of your problem here is that you are factually challenged. She wasn’t fired, and the uniform isn’t whore, and it wasn’t for him. She had her hours reduced because she refused to wear the cheerleader like uniform for the customers.
this is why he’s going to win the case and all your hyperbole shows you know the facts don’t back you. People backed by the facts don’t need to throw around ridiculous words like “whore” and “pervert” and “pimp” to make their case, they can just quote the article.
And, you've got other facts wrong, too. Courtney Scaramella is not a whore, no matter how many times you sling around that falsehood.
You go ahead and stick up for your pervert employer. I'm going to go ahead and stay in Courtney's corner.
And we'll just have to wait and see who gets the most ahead.
I never said she was a whore, that’s your word. I say she’s a waitress, at a place that changed the presentation of the business to respond to well documented changes in the market place. I don’t think the women who work in these restaurants are whores or dress like whores, that again is entirely YOUR obsession.
I was in her corner all the way up until the lawsuit. I fully support her decision to not wear the new uniforms and seek other employment.
“Forcing employees to pimp themselves out “
No one is forcing anyone to do anything.
It’s a right-to-work state. She can leave anytime, no notice required, and go work somewhere respectable.
Free markets include the right for people to sell products we find disagreeable.
Yeah, she’s a slave, unable to work anywhere but at a titty restaurant.
We must regulate the industry!
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