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Amen to Waitress Who Refused Sexed Up Uniform
The Christian Diarist ^ | June 27, 2012 | JP

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.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Religion; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: breastaurants; courtneyscaramella; uniform; waitress
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To: CHRISTIAN DIARIST

1 Corinthians 6:1.


61 posted on 06/27/2012 11:42:14 AM PDT by Crawdad
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To: CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Looks like there are a lot of people here arguing in favor of the principle behind the law and not the law itself. The law may violate the principle, but if you oppose it, fight the law and not the waitress. The waitress in question is not responsible for creating the law. According to the existing laws, she has a case of wrongful termination since the employer wanted to either cut down her clothing or her hours.

I am not in favor of the law. Nor do I consider the termination "wrongful" based on the principle. I am also for property rights and the right of business owners to run their businesses as they see fit, but those who do not fault the law and instead fault the waitress are missing the point.

The truth is that property rights in this country have been trampled with the help of judges appointed by Republican presidents. The idiot Scalia thinks that growing your own plants affects interstate commerce and so the government should control gardening activities.

62 posted on 06/27/2012 11:43:14 AM PDT by JimWayne
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To: Edward Teach
They appeared to try to make some sort of accommodation, which was wishy-washy of them.

I won't give them that much credit. My guess is they didn't lay her off so as to avoid having their EDD policy premium increased. They figured they could just reduce her hours until she voluntarily left.

63 posted on 06/27/2012 11:45:38 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Edward Teach

Legal protections don’t apply on priv prop? I said that? Why are you attacking an argument that I did not make?

If I shoot you on my priv prop because I don’t like the way you comb your hair, I suspect that legal protections would come into play.

If I decide to change my priv prop from a business that sells beer and chicken wings to one that sells books, I don’t need the permission of my waitresses to do so.

Nor do I need their permission to change the lighting, the uniforms, the hours, the pay, the flooring, the tablecloths, or anything else.


64 posted on 06/27/2012 11:45:47 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

she did not notice the uniform they used to use?

there are a host of cases where the “sexy waitress” uniform was upheld.


65 posted on 06/27/2012 11:48:08 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: skeeter
Sounds like your clients are bound to honor the contract for the term, or cycle, specified, otherwise you penalize them. Yet, when an employer changes the terms of an employee's contract their only option is to quit?

Unless an employment contract has a specified term (the military is the primary such example), employment is at will on both sides. An employee can quit without notice, demand a change in pay or working conditions, or otherwise insist on renegotiating or terminating the relationship without notice, although two weeks notice is polite and traditional. Would you eliminate that option?

66 posted on 06/27/2012 12:04:26 PM PDT by Pollster1 (A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)
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To: MarineBrat; doubled; bk1000; mouser; Red in Blue PA; MilspecRob; LiveFreeOrDie2001; ...

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67 posted on 06/27/2012 12:04:55 PM PDT by numberonepal (First they came for Sarah, then they came for Herman.....)
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To: skeeter

That happened to a neighbor of ours (salesman). He was even bringing in new clients, but they were “shifted” over to another guy that had been with the company for years and years. It’s pretty tough when management has you in the cross hairs for whatever reason.

One of my old man’s words of advice was to never sue someone. I don’t think that is ALWAYS the case, but his point was if you sue your employer, who will want to hire you next? If you sue your supplier, who will want to be your next supplier, etc.


68 posted on 06/27/2012 12:06:32 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: numberonepal

I already hit it ...


69 posted on 06/27/2012 12:10:26 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: antceecee; Responsibility2nd

Best comment on the thread.


70 posted on 06/27/2012 12:23:13 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah
There is a way to restore America to a moral higher ground, but it invoves affirming a taboo structure in our culture that has been hideously eroded by 'political correctness' and tolerance run amok. A taboo structure in a culture gets eroded by various means. It can happen suddenly, as when we took control of Japan following WWII and established limits of what would be acceptable in a culture that had before worshipped the Emperor as a living god. It can happen in subtle yet obiovus increments which the more conservative in the culture allow due to laziness or unwillingness to get involved in supporting the taboos, as in the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling which lead inexorably to partial birth abortions and killing via neglect those alive children who happen to survive a poorly conducted killing/abortion. If We The People will not stand up and oppose the political correctness meme which now allows sexual degenerates to parade openly in the streets committing thier degeneracy, then these demonic influence will erode the taboo structure by huge increments and sexual degenrates will be tolerated in the schools nd priesthoods, and eventaully mkae the whole culture a sickness to match their degenerate state.

As for me, I ma no longer restrained by specious tolerance. Tolerating evil degredation of my culture is not tolerance, it is spiritual suicide. Since the rejection of spiritual responsibility seems to have become 'unfashionable' in our culture, the degenerates have made huge strides in degenerating the society. Think about it ...

71 posted on 06/27/2012 12:34:27 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: little jeremiah
There is a way to restore America to a moral higher ground, but it invoves affirming a taboo structure in our culture that has been hideously eroded by 'political correctness' and tolerance run amok. A taboo structure in a culture gets eroded by various means. It can happen suddenly, as when we took control of Japan following WWII and established limits of what would be acceptable in a culture that had before worshipped the Emperor as a living god. It can happen in subtle yet obiovus increments which the more conservative in the culture allow due to laziness or unwillingness to get involved in supporting the taboos, as in the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling which lead inexorably to partial birth abortions and killing via neglect those alive children who happen to survive a poorly conducted killing/abortion. If We The People will not stand up and oppose the political correctness meme which now allows sexual degenerates to parade openly in the streets committing thier degeneracy, then these demonic influence will erode the taboo structure by huge increments and sexual degenrates will be tolerated in the schools nd priesthoods, and eventaully mkae the whole culture a sickness to match their degenerate state.

As for me, I am no longer restrained by specious tolerance. Tolerating evil degredation of my culture is not tolerance, it is spiritual suicide. Since the rejection of spiritual responsibility seems to have become 'unfashionable' in our culture, the degenerates have made huge strides in degenerating the society. Think about it ...

72 posted on 06/27/2012 12:34:40 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Pollster1
Would you eliminate that option?

Of course not. Did I give the impression I would?

I am an employer. I hope I am successfully balancing my business's needs with consideration for my employees I always hoped for from those who've employed me in the past. This employer's problems stem from his apparent unwillingness to do so.

73 posted on 06/27/2012 12:46:55 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter
I am an employer. I hope I am successfully balancing my business's needs with consideration for my employees I always hoped for from those who've employed me in the past. This employer's problems stem from his apparent unwillingness to do so.

I see a huge difference between a legal obligation and a moral obligation. The employer should have no legal obligation to keep a waitress beyond when she is wanted, and it's the legal obligation that matters in court.

74 posted on 06/27/2012 12:59:54 PM PDT by Pollster1 (A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)
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To: Pollster1
it's the legal obligation that matters in court.

Of course, and we shall see how a court rules.

75 posted on 06/27/2012 1:01:46 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Revolting cat!
Just for research purposes this is what the skirt would look like when worn..


76 posted on 06/27/2012 1:11:15 PM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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To: CHRISTIAN DIARIST

While I applaude her for NOT wearing the new outfit, I disagree with her decision to sue.

She does not have a ‘right’ to work there.

Businesses change all the time. If they decided to change INTO a hooter franchise, what would she have done? Sue them to force them not to?

Kudos for holding onto her morals, but she needs a lesson in private property, and I am available to give her one any time at all~!!!!!!!!!!


78 posted on 06/27/2012 1:18:56 PM PDT by Mr. K (I AM WRITING-IN PALIN/GINGRICH)
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To: antceecee
"The family went to see the Disney Pixar Brave movie last weekend and the previews for future offerings included a 3-D look at the upcoming Katy Perry biopic about her concert experience and her life in general. Obvious pandering to young girls 6 to 10 year olds by a woman wearing cupcake bras with cherry nipples and pinwheel spinning tittie bras. Prancing around on stage like a deranged female version of PeeWee Herman."

This is up a that show right now? That's just awful... I will go see it this weekend and make a full report...

80 posted on 06/27/2012 1:24:10 PM PDT by Mr. K (I AM WRITING-IN PALIN/GINGRICH)
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