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To: Labyrinthos
Sigh....Maybe you are right....but it is hard to believe. I suppose some managers are so arrogant that they think that nobody will notice?.....It is discouraging.....and is a magnificant source of income for JJ et al...
86 posted on 05/05/2004 8:34:25 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (god, I hate politicians)
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To: B.O. Plenty
I give absolutely no credibility whatsoever to any action or complaint initiated by JJ and his gang. From my own personal experience, however, I do give appropriate weight to federal prosecutions for civil rights violations. That's not to say that the Feds are never wrong, but rather, I'm not willing to dismiss the allegations as frivilous.

Another example of the stupidity of management: About five years ago, I was involved in a federal lawsuit against the owners of a chain of greek diners for sexual harrasment. What was obvious to everyone was that the primary, if not the only qualifications for employment as a waitress was the applicants' age and the size of her breasts. The manager of one of the diners was accused of sexual harrassment, which he denied of course, even after he was seen on the security video grouping waitresses in the stock room, and standing so close to the waitresses in the public areas of the diner, that the young ladies could not possibly pass by him without brushing their breasts against his body. Even with the video evidence, he refused to settle, and claimed that the waitresses were at fault because they wore tight pants and showed lots of cleavage. The waitresses admitted to the tight pants and cleavage, but claimed that management threatened to give them the worst hours or even terminate them if the dressed more conservatively. The manager laughed as the allegation and insisted on going to trial, where the plaintiffs presented a former manager who produced email from the regional manager reminding him of the company dress code for waitresses. The jury awarded each of the plaintiffs something like $50,000.

93 posted on 05/05/2004 9:01:05 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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