Posted on 03/03/2005 3:35:59 PM PST by Former Military Chick
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- The battle over bulge continues at an Atlantic City casino.
The "Borgata Babes" aren't getting a break on their weight. The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, N.J., won't budge on its new weight requirements.
The Borgata has rejected a union grievance challenging the casino's imposition of weight limits on cocktail servers -- known as "Borgata Babes" -- and costumed bartenders. It said they are performers whose personal appearance and grooming are a key part of Borgata's image.
The babes have to squeeze into skimpy costumes.
Last month casino officials announced that the Borgata Babes and bartenders would have to weigh-in. Anyone who gained more than 7 percent of their body weight would be subject to suspension or firing.
But Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union, which represents the cocktail servers and the bartenders, quickly contested the policy. They said it violates the casino's contract with the union by imposing a unilateral change in working conditions.
Officials of the waitress and bartenders union said they'll now take the weighty issue to arbitration.
They damned well better.
AND WHY NOT? IT'S TRUE, YOU KNOW...
Are you gonna take me home tonight
Ah down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin’ world go round
Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!
I’ve been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen ev’ry blue eyed floozy on the way
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time
Oh won’t you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
Hey listen here
Now your mortgages and homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain’t no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me
Now get this
Oh you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
Get on your bikes and ride
Oooh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
Fat bottomed girls
Yes yes
I agree with the company, too. They have an image they want to present, and they as the employer get to say who does and who doesn't fit that image, and they are requiring it of the women and the men.
Even though I agree with the employer on this one, as a smoker, I can definitely see your point, especially in light of the company I've heard about who is requiring their employees to quit or get fired. But then if that is going to apply to smokers it should also apply to overeaters and drinkers, as their habits are unhealthy also.
>>I personally think it's not a good thing...where does it end?<<
Unless the employer is allowed to determine the restrictions we will have the state designating who is allowed to work for whom.
Sorry, but you are too pretty to work as an engineer. The services industry needs pretty girls.
"They said it violates the casino's contract with the union by imposing a unilateral change in working conditions."
That sounds like its an attempt to impose a new condition of employment on an already existing contract.
So long as this rule was in the contract from the start and its existence was made clear to employees when they were hired I've got no problem with it.
Dammit. now I'm gonna have that stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
Any 290 pound tub of lard manager telling me I'm in trouble for gaining 11 pounds is in for some serious grief.
This is pure foolishness. Waitresses are not entertainers or harem houris, they're working girls.
Then head over to the TAJ. You'll find all the curve your heart desires there. But make sure none of the waitresses step on your toes by accident!
Actually they are whatever the company who hires thems is PAYING them to be.
If the Casino is hiring them to enhance the attractiveness of their gambling environment they have the right to do so.
The women are working to make a living. They have a NEED to do so. Attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder. The rent to pay and the children to dress up and send to school are objective realities.
As morality is about choices... well what's more important?
You can lecture all you want on what is or isn't "moral".
But somebody like Whoopie Goldberg is NEVER going to be hired to pose for Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
Fat unattractive people are not going to be allowed to wear sexy Borgata waitress outfits and serve drinks to their patrons. It's not going to happen.
By the way........you have some of the best posts regarding the military and I appreciate your efforts very much. :-)
And in other news, Hooters fires waitresses that refuse to shave their pits.
The women are working to make a living. They have a NEED to do so.
Hmmm company can tell girls to look like toothpicks but the threads about not having guns or smoking goes into the hundreds as to why they're wrong.
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