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Woman Allegedly Fired For Being 'Too Hot' Represented by Gloria Allred (Original Post) bluestateguy May 2012 OP
Welcome to a few weeks ago. Tejas May 2012 #1
This is the flip side of what has already been happening for a long time loyalsister May 2012 #2
I'm pretty sure it depends on the job description. Lingerie shop? Dunno. nt Electric Monk May 2012 #3
hello? employers don't fire women for being too ugly magical thyme May 2012 #4
Didn't they realize that when they hired her? treestar May 2012 #5
Funny, but I suspect that women have been fired for being kestrel91316 May 2012 #6
That's like firing a stripper for having nipples. HopeHoops May 2012 #7
Allred knows how to get on TV. n/t lumberjack_jeff May 2012 #8

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
2. This is the flip side of what has already been happening for a long time
Sat May 26, 2012, 03:08 AM
May 2012

Most recently the weight requirements surprisingly supported by many here.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
4. hello? employers don't fire women for being too ugly
Sat May 26, 2012, 05:24 AM
May 2012

because they simply don't hire them to begin with. We are the last ones hired, which makes it easy to use lifo to unload us during down times.

On the other hand, maybe it's not so much a matter of a woman looking "too hot" as acting like a dog in heat. I remember the utter embarrassment of being in a meeting with a colleague when the 30 year old wannabe designer intruded and took over. Her low cut, tight little tee didn't quite meet the top of her mini-mini skirt, giving us both a glimpse of her naval ring. She practically humped my colleague's leg, while she ran one of her feet up and down her other calf.

There are few times in my life when I have been so mortified by somebody's behavior. I worked so fucking hard for any opportunity to get out of the admin slot. I was the first woman in the $6+B services organization at Digital Equipment Corp. to break through that ceiling. Oh, they hired women directly into professional positions, but if you entered that organization as an admin, you were trapped in that slot for good...until I broke through.

And some 15 years later, this was what I faced at the little failed startup.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
5. Didn't they realize that when they hired her?
Sat May 26, 2012, 09:07 AM
May 2012

Doesn't make a lot of sense. Was it male employees who couldn't concentrate on their jobs or what?

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
6. Funny, but I suspect that women have been fired for being
Sat May 26, 2012, 10:02 AM
May 2012

"frumpy" or not attractive enough for quite some time...........

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