New York waitresses file $15 million lawsuit, alleging employer fired them for being fat:
According to Associated Press:"An upscale East Side restaurant and bar is being sued for $15 million (€11.8 million) by two waitresses who say their bosses fired them because they thought they were too fat. "The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court against the Sutton Place Restaurant and Bar says Kristen McRedmond, 27, and Alexandria Lipton, 25, were subjected to orders to disclose and record their weight, sexual harassment and a hostile work environment before they were fired in July."
I find the behavior of the employer and the male employees, described in the article, to be offensive and suppressive. As a somewhat "plump" woman myself, I sympathize with how these women must have felt.
But when we start creating 15 million dollar lawsuits to complain about it don't you think we're going just a bit too far?
I personally feel this makes a laughing stock out of women's causes.
Leave it to New York to come up with a case like this....
