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.
That’s just baloney. This employer participates in setting standards in the industry. Would he reduce expenses by no longer washing dishes if his competitor across the street did? Show me a study that concludes that a restaurant can’t survive unless it looks like a whorehouse.
This lady invested years of her life in this business. She is fully justified in refusing to be treated like a whore and if the transition caused by her employer’s sudden decision to play pimp causes her some losses, she’s got a valid claim as far as I am concerned.
There’s no baloney about it. This employer can read the trades and see the money. You want a study here you go:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/24/breastaurant-boom-hooters-style-eateries-experience-mini-boom/
“The nation’s top three “breastaurant” chains behind Hooters each had sales growth of 30 percent or more last year, according to Technomic, a food industry research firm. They still represent less than 1 percent of the nation’s top restaurants, but the upstart chains are benefitting as other mid-priced options like Applebee’s and Bennigan’s have experienced declines during the economic downturn.”
Now if you’re a restaurant owner which do you want to sign up for 30% growth or decline? The answer is pretty easy.
The employee is fully justified in refusing to make the change. But that means leaving the company. Her employer’s decision didn’t cause her any losses, HER decision did. SHE decided not to make the change with the restaurant. Her call, not his. He decided he’d rather sign up for 30% growth, the smart business decision, she opted not to. Which is a valid call for her to make, but it was her decision that cost her money, not his. His decision would have given her money.
Well, we agree that it’s “his call” to come out of the closet and announce that he’s a pervert and that he wants his employees to dress like whores for him. If he tried to pull that on my daughter, if he asked my daughter to dress like a whore for him, I’d cure him with a scalpel. She’s just asking for the cost of the transition he’s forced her to make.
I don’t agree to that, that’s you using hyperbole to pretend you have a point. Out here in reality 30% growth is worth chasing even if you aren’t in a down economy, no perversion necessary. He didn’t force her to make a transition, that was her decision.
Filth is filth. Perversion is perversion. It can’t be justified.
Let the jury decide.
You are unstable..seek help.
And having women wearing more cloth than the average cheerleader outfit while serving food is neither filth nor perversion. It’s a business decision.
And, if I was the judge, I’d tell the employer that unless he appeared in court with the words pervert and pimp on the front and back of his shirt, he should not show up at all.
And, if he decided not to show up, that would be “his call.”
The jury will take care of this guy.
And this is why we have separation of church and state for good reason...Admit it..if this woman wanted her employer to pay for birth control you would be 100% on the side of the employer.
Hemingway's Ghost said it way better than I ever could in his post above and he is 100% correct.
I bet you the woman in question wears skimpy string or thong bikini's to the beach and flaunts her bod.. sometimes employees just want to be difficult and stir up shiiite.
Really, your terminology is ridiculous. Is the restaurant owner forcing his waitresses to solicit sex from customers for pay and then pocketing a percentage of those proceeds? No. He is not, therefore, "pimping" them out.
We had one of the most anti-freedom decisions of all time from the USSC, and you're bitching about what a waitress could or should wear as a uniform?
Get your priorities in order, "Tzar."
Sports bars generally have a male clientel and I can't ever recall being in one with male servers/waiters. Guys don't want to be served by a dude when they are out with their guy friends having a good time w/o the wife /girlfriend.
Let’s suppose the employer wanted to keep the old uniforms and it was the employee who wanted to change to something sexier in order to increase her tips. If she decided to quit because she didn’t get to wear the sexy uniform, could the employer demand she continue to work for him, wearing the old uniform? Could the employer get damages from the waitress if she quit in order to work at Hooters?
No, of course not. THAT is employment at will.
Let’s suppose the employer wanted to keep the old uniforms and it was the employee who wanted to change to something sexier in order to increase her tips. If she decided to quit because she didn’t get to wear the sexy uniform, could the employer demand she continue to work for him, wearing the old uniform? Could the employer get damages from the waitress if she quit in order to work at Hooters?
No, of course not. THAT is employment at will.
Save it for the jury!
He fired her for refusing to dress like a whore for him, after years of faithful service. Throw him in the snake pit!
Tau, generally, the people I meet out in real life who scream whore!! perverts!! fornicators!! as you are doing on this thread are the ones not "getting any" and are envious of others. "hey, if I'm not having fun others should not either" comes to mind.
Srs, you need to lighten up. Are you male or female btw.. that might explain alot.
You get back in the snake pit where you belong.
male and my gf takes care of me...
I’m glad to hear that. I’d like to hear that there’s a ring and a date, but I guess that’s your business.
Don’t you think we’ve spent enough time on this pervert-employer? Don’t you think we should just let the jury take care of him?
Well, I do. Best of luck to you and your gf. ;-)
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