[Cagey]

With all the pimply faced kids with dirty fingernails working at Hamburger joints, I'm sure she'd would have been an improvement.

[AD from SpringBay]

Not to mention the multiple piercings and meth teeth.

[LanPB01]

The EEOC should be disbanded.

[RockinRight]

You forgot to add...

...that can't subtract $1.97 from $2.00 without a calculator.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So does this mean that burger chains are supposed to automatically hire anyone who fills out an application?

[dead]

The woman has Treacher Collins Syndrome, a birth defect that caused a malformed cranial bone structure, asymmetrical eye placement and the absence of ears.

Finally, that which afflicts Alan Colmes has a name.

Oh wait, he has ears. Maybe he has a variant strain.

[ncountylee]

Boy, she could help control the evils of fast food. While my heart goes out to her, perhaps food sever is not the best vocational choice.

[SlowBoat407]

I personally have a harder time buying food from someone with intentional disfigurement, such as lip, nose, eyebrow, cheek, and other piercings, than I do from someone with a deformity over which they had no control.

[martin_fierro]

If she could've swallowed her fist, she'd've been a shoo-in.

[CharlesWayneCT]

She was only as "well qualified" as the others if you assume that scaring away customers, or making them less likely to buy food, or as much food, has nothing to do with qualifications.

It may have been illegal to take that into account, and it may have been a wrong assumption that her appearance would effect sales. But certainly there are characteristics people have which would make them unqualified, or less qualified, to serve as a company's "face" to the customer.

[Sender]

You know, I can just imagine the all-day-Saturday mandatory sensitivity training classes for managers. I could prepare the material and teach the classes.

'Jane doesn't have any ears and one of her eyes is on the side of her head. Susan is an unaffected symmetrical-American applicant. Both of them are appropriately dressed...'

'...that's correct Ron, the very fact that you noticed her deformity in the first place demonstrates the need for further expensive classes.'

[mikeus_maximus]

Cool. Now all she and her lawyer have to do is hit up every other fast food chain, retail giant, airline company, and any other public-facing entity she can think of, and she'll retire a multi-millionaire by the age of 30. :)

[NormB]

Here she is! Yep, no ears! Eyes not symmetrical, this is her all right!

[Kenton]

You want fries with that?

[antaresequity]

The EEOC said the suit, also filed Monday, alleged that the job seeker applied more than once

The 'job seeker' applied, and the 'job provider' denied...

Where in the Constitution does it protect a 'job seekers' 'right' to a job?

[tophat9000]

First folks you hire the people that can do the job and not all position are at the front counter

Bottom line there not hiring someone because they don't like there looks where looks is not a major requirement