Hefty Lawsuit for NYC Pub
What was this pub trying to be? A modeling agency? Craziness. BTW, for those of you that are New Yorkers, would you call Sutton place a "trendy east side" bar? That kind of made me chuckle. I guess it was trendy when I was in my younger, just moved to the city, still holding on to the college days.
In all seriousness...
Now I'm not saying the girls don't have a case, but $15 million? I hear that it is standard to always shoot high. Then again, I'm still getting used to the litigious society where we live.
WEIGHTRESS OUTRAGE AT PUB
SEX-HARASS LAWSUIT
By DAN MANGAN (www.nypost.com)
September 12, 2006 -- Two ex-waitresses at a trendy East Side bar are serving up a heavy-duty, $15 million sex-harassment lawsuit, accusing their former bosses of ordering female employees to be weighed as part of a bizarre scheme to keep tabs on their poundage.
"They told me I needed to get on the scale," said one of the women, Kristen McRedmond, about her humiliating experience in a manager's office at Sutton Place Bar and Restaurant in July.
"I told them I'm not going to be part of your sick game," recalled McRedmond, 27, who said she physically resisted when a beefy manager tried to pick her up to get her on the scale while another manager looked on.
"I just felt so violated."
McRedmond and fellow former Sutton Place waitress Alexandria Lipton, 25, both said the scale episode came a few weeks after a top manager at the Second Avenue watering hole had walked around with pen and pad in hand demanding to know how much all the waitresses weighed so he could record the results.
"The manager, Neil, came over to me and asked me how much I weigh. I said, 'I don't know.' He looks me up and down, and he goes, '135' . . . Then he writes down my weight," Lipton said.
Both women said only female workers were singled out for the weigh-ins and questions about their weight, and that it was done without explanation. And they claim the managers would criticize waitresses - but not waiters - for ordering fatty fried food for their own dinners.
They also claim that waitresses' individual weights were tracked on a computer spreadsheet - and the results placed on a Web site that tracked the weights of waitresses in other establishments in the city. "I've been doing sexual-harassment law for 20 years, and this has to be the most egregious case of degradation to women that I have ever seen," said the women's lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold. "It's unbelievable."
Arnold and her co-counsel, Joseph Tacopina, today are filing suit on behalf of the women in Manhattan Supreme Court against Sutton Place and its owner, Richard Kassis, as well as managers including Neil, who is listed as "Neil Doe" because his last name is unknown.
The suit accuses the defendants of sexual harassment and illegally firing McRedmond and Lipton after they were overheard complaining about the weigh-ins, which, it says, had severely upset most other female workers.
Sutton Place's lawyer, Joel Simon, denied the allegations, calling them a "nice piece of fiction," but declined to address them point by point, and also declined to say why the women were fired. "I believe that once the facts are known, it will be seen that the individuals were fired due to their own fault, and not to do with anything related to these allegations," Simon said.
(source)
In all seriousness...
Now I'm not saying the girls don't have a case, but $15 million? I hear that it is standard to always shoot high. Then again, I'm still getting used to the litigious society where we live.
WEIGHTRESS OUTRAGE AT PUB
SEX-HARASS LAWSUIT
By DAN MANGAN (www.nypost.com)
September 12, 2006 -- Two ex-waitresses at a trendy East Side bar are serving up a heavy-duty, $15 million sex-harassment lawsuit, accusing their former bosses of ordering female employees to be weighed as part of a bizarre scheme to keep tabs on their poundage.
"They told me I needed to get on the scale," said one of the women, Kristen McRedmond, about her humiliating experience in a manager's office at Sutton Place Bar and Restaurant in July.
"I told them I'm not going to be part of your sick game," recalled McRedmond, 27, who said she physically resisted when a beefy manager tried to pick her up to get her on the scale while another manager looked on.
"I just felt so violated."
McRedmond and fellow former Sutton Place waitress Alexandria Lipton, 25, both said the scale episode came a few weeks after a top manager at the Second Avenue watering hole had walked around with pen and pad in hand demanding to know how much all the waitresses weighed so he could record the results.
"The manager, Neil, came over to me and asked me how much I weigh. I said, 'I don't know.' He looks me up and down, and he goes, '135' . . . Then he writes down my weight," Lipton said.
Both women said only female workers were singled out for the weigh-ins and questions about their weight, and that it was done without explanation. And they claim the managers would criticize waitresses - but not waiters - for ordering fatty fried food for their own dinners.
They also claim that waitresses' individual weights were tracked on a computer spreadsheet - and the results placed on a Web site that tracked the weights of waitresses in other establishments in the city. "I've been doing sexual-harassment law for 20 years, and this has to be the most egregious case of degradation to women that I have ever seen," said the women's lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold. "It's unbelievable."
Arnold and her co-counsel, Joseph Tacopina, today are filing suit on behalf of the women in Manhattan Supreme Court against Sutton Place and its owner, Richard Kassis, as well as managers including Neil, who is listed as "Neil Doe" because his last name is unknown.
The suit accuses the defendants of sexual harassment and illegally firing McRedmond and Lipton after they were overheard complaining about the weigh-ins, which, it says, had severely upset most other female workers.
Sutton Place's lawyer, Joel Simon, denied the allegations, calling them a "nice piece of fiction," but declined to address them point by point, and also declined to say why the women were fired. "I believe that once the facts are known, it will be seen that the individuals were fired due to their own fault, and not to do with anything related to these allegations," Simon said.
(source)
posted by Miss Caroline at 8:00 AM
7 Comments:
wow - crazy story!! If they did in fact do this they should get sued! - but there is no way they will collect $15M.
I know that some jobs have weight requirements in their policies, but this is taking it a little too far. I hope they lose and go out of business...perverts.
"I believe that once the facts are known, it will be seen that the individuals were fired due to their own fault, and no to do with anything related to these allegations."
Translated from lawyerspeak: "My clients are lying scumbags, and we're praying that we can get out of this without bankrupting the store."
i think its ridiculous 15 million please! That's part of the job description the world has gotten to politicaly correct & liberal ,No one wants a big fat slob waitress to serve you drinks , I mean even if they didn't fire customers would drigt away from her to where the attractive waitresser are or even harass them , It goes with the territory......Whats next the Dallas Cowboys going to hire extra plus large cheerleaders???
Its part of the job descript andbeing in shape allows the person to perfrm the job point blank!! I SAY STOP YOUR CRYING
,,,,,everything geared toward women from the time they are 9 years old make up magazines fashion is geared toward baby doll and being attractive to men and Men to be strong & INDEPENDANT and stable support system "although that last part may be changing and many women are earning more and getting degree's alot faster then men who are dropping out and many women in power go after & own toy boy eye candy beef cake ( is then any different??? then its just reverse role), and THAT IS SOCIETY!!!
AND THATS PART OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION
I worked here recently for a period of time. EVERYTHING they are alleging is completely true. I haven't read one exaggerated statement. I was never weighed, as they often targeted girls who were heavier.
Damn, I should have sued the restaurant that I worked at before I left for Canada. I saw a Mexican die from hypothermia on the job (toward the end of his triple shift). In fact, the Manager let him lay where he died for 3 whole days. His excuse was "We'll take him out on trash day."
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