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Subject: Fired due to being "irresistible".?
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Posted by: I Senor Skwid I
I get that all the time...


it's a curse really...

  • 12.24.2012 10:31 AM PDT


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Posted by: greatestSheriff
You just can't fire someone because they are...hot.


you can in indiana. you can be fired and not ever be told why.
yorkie

Not just here, but most states as well.

  • 12.24.2012 10:31 AM PDT

Wait..... I thought i saw this thread two days ago....I'm not certain thoug....

OT: Its absurd, he should learn to control himself and not take his hormones out on someone else. He should lose his job.

  • 12.24.2012 10:31 AM PDT

My legit Killtrocity

Camping like a 'mouth breather'
If Fed Ex and UPS merged into one company, would it be called Fed Up?

I don't want to start another account for a digital number that has no true value in ten years.


Posted by: NinjaLord77

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I think its wrong that any boss could pull that technically, but I know like with Hooters they're allowed to not hire women based on their looks.


Won't an exotic club work the same way? I mean people come for the girls and most want them to look good.
Yeah, its just they can list that as the reason for not hiring and leave it at that. I just remember reading it from some woman who tried to sue them but it didn't work out.

  • 12.24.2012 10:31 AM PDT
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Recon.

This is cOLD.

:3

OT: Why do I always end up agreeing with you Ninjas?

Does someone (anyone) have the "right" to maintain the employer/employee relationship even if one of the other parties is unhappy and doesn't want it to continue? Should an employee or an employer (without a contract) be forced to continue their part of the arrangement if the other says "no, we're not breaking up"?
Depends.

If they want to end the relationship based on something such as race or sex (I don't want no black men at my company or no girls allowed) then the answer would be yes.

That said, if they are forced to keep them on, they'll rain down hell on them to get them to leave anyways so it's a moot point.

  • 12.24.2012 10:31 AM PDT
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Foman is my favorite moderator. <3

A victory for right-to-work.

I'm going to assume this is a right-to-work state as I'm too lazy to look it up.

  • 12.24.2012 10:31 AM PDT

When I read this story and saw the videos for it, I wondered "why now and not within the first couple of years she started working there". And then I saw that both the wife and the man saw her as a threat to their marriage. If anything, they took a personal problem to the work place, and still doesn't, or rather, shouldn't, be justification to fire someone. If you can't resist someone, then perhaps work on that yourself, self control doesn't take much,

  • 12.24.2012 10:32 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

The issue was that he/she are both married to other people and working together.

If she had decided "I am going to quit the job because this is too much of a risk for my marriage", she would have been within her rights and this wouldn't be a story.

She didn't sue for sex harassment, because the flirting was mutual, and she was being honest about it. It was two adults who liked each other being adults. Not professional, not wise, but that sort of thing happens all of the time.

Was she really entitled to unlimited employment until SHE decided that she didn't want the job anymore?

My view is that employment (when there is no contract, if there is, the terms of the contract apply) is a mutually agreed upon situation by both sides and either side can "end it" whenever they choose. I could get a call tomorrow from my boss, and (lacking a contract) could be told "don't bother coming in ever again". If I was 6 that wouldn't "seem fair", but I am an adult and I understand my position and situation. No one owes me my job, no one is obligated to employ me, I am employed because they want my services and are willing to pay for them.

  • 12.24.2012 10:32 AM PDT

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
-Sir Winston Churchill

The Secret Society 95% of activity is me, I could use some help.

Dick move but it is fair. Very frowned upon but you can do it if you really need to.

  • 12.24.2012 10:32 AM PDT

Disregard Females, acquire currency.

She's not even that good looking...

  • 12.24.2012 10:32 AM PDT
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Posted by: A Good Troll
A victory for right-to-work.

Serious or sarcasm?

  • 12.24.2012 10:33 AM PDT

One good example of why marriage can hurt. If he didn't have a wife there wouldn't be a problem.

  • 12.24.2012 10:33 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: Elegiac
If I got fired for being too attractive, I'd want that included in my reference. For sure.

  • 12.24.2012 10:33 AM PDT

Unsuccessfully trying to bring science and reason to The Flood...

I think that a man firing a woman because he doesn't think he would be able to control himself is pretty moronic. If anything, I think its more of an admission of guilt than anything. It is clear that he really thought about an affair with her.

I'm pretty sure it is illegal here in the Uk to fire someone without proper grounds, and being a good looking woman does not qualify for that.

  • 12.24.2012 10:34 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Posted by: l Latsu15 l
OT: Its absurd, he should learn to control himself and not take his hormones out on someone else. He should lose his job.

He IS "the job". The business is his. He is a dentist. He can't fire himself.

  • 12.24.2012 10:34 AM PDT

My legit Killtrocity

Camping like a 'mouth breather'
If Fed Ex and UPS merged into one company, would it be called Fed Up?

I don't want to start another account for a digital number that has no true value in ten years.

I think one of the problems is she claimed it was gender discrimination, which wasn't necessarily the case

  • 12.24.2012 10:36 AM PDT


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Posted by: l Latsu15 l
OT: Its absurd, he should learn to control himself and not take his hormones out on someone else. He should lose his job.

He IS "the job". The business is his. He is a dentist. He can't fire himself.


If this was an ongoing problem. Why didn't he resolve it one or two years into her employment? Or was this problem recent?

  • 12.24.2012 10:36 AM PDT

Skwid


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Posted by: I Senor Skwid I
I get that all the time...


it's a curse really...

I know right?

This man knows what's up.

  • 12.24.2012 10:37 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.


Posted by: xAT 117x
I think that a man firing a woman because he doesn't think he would be able to control himself is pretty moronic. If anything, I think its more of an admission of guilt than anything. It is clear that he really thought about an affair with her.

I'm pretty sure it is illegal here in the Uk to fire someone without proper grounds, and being a good looking woman does not qualify for that.

Okay then, flip it around.

She decides to quit (in order to "protect her marriage from risk") and the employer says "No, you have to stay. We are entitled to your services".

That sounds utterly ridiculous if the situation is reversed. Which is a pretty basic method of looking at something to see if it really is "fair".

  • 12.24.2012 10:37 AM PDT

My gamertag is Dustin Nugget, like my name here.

>blatantly obvious political thread on Flood
>mods on, but seem not to care
>rage and flaming continue!

  • 12.24.2012 10:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: l Latsu15 l
OT: Its absurd, he should learn to control himself and not take his hormones out on someone else. He should lose his job.

He IS "the job". The business is his. He is a dentist. He can't fire himself.

There are still things he could have done.

He could have kept the relationship professional by not instigating flirting, he could have done a better job of keeping his urges in check.

Instead he lapsed and someone else is getting punished for it.

  • 12.24.2012 10:38 AM PDT

I am assuming direct control.


Posted by: Dustin Nugget
>blatantly obvious political thread on Flood
>mods on, but seem not to care
>rage and flaming continue!

You can't green text here, this is the flood, and if you desperately need the mod's attention try messaging Recon instead of posting an entirely irrelevant post in a decent discussion.

  • 12.24.2012 10:39 AM PDT

I am assuming direct control.


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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: l Latsu15 l
OT: Its absurd, he should learn to control himself and not take his hormones out on someone else. He should lose his job.

He IS "the job". The business is his. He is a dentist. He can't fire himself.

There are still things he could have done.

He could have kept the relationship professional by not instigating flirting, he could have done a better job of keeping his urges in check.

Instead he lapsed and someone else is getting punished for it.

It's heavily implied that his wife was the driving force behind his decision. For all we know, he might've wanted to keep her on his team but his wife threatened divorce. I get the feeling he was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

  • 12.24.2012 10:41 AM PDT

My gamertag is Dustin Nugget, like my name here.


Posted by: Direct Control

Posted by: Dustin Nugget
>blatantly obvious political thread on Flood
>mods on, but seem not to care
>rage and flaming continue!

You can't green text here, this is the flood, and if you desperately need the mod's attention try messaging Recon instead of posting an entirely irrelevant post in a decent discussion.
I was making fun the Flood via green text. Sorry, but you're not helping.

  • 12.24.2012 10:43 AM PDT

My gamertag is Dustin Nugget, like my name here.

>blatantly obvious CP thread on Flood
>mods on, but seem not care
>yes, illegal!

  • 12.24.2012 10:44 AM PDT

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