Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The Ladies Woman Reportedly Nicknamed "Little Tits" Wins Sexual Discrimination Suit
Posted by Cienna Madrid on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:42 PM
A 21-year-old British waitress, who was reportedly nicknamed "little tits" by her manager (though he denies it), has been awarded 10,000 pounds in a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the pub where she worked.
Miss Broughton, 21, told the panel Mr Stephens asked her if she was wearing a push-up bra to enhance her cleavage after he had been drinking. When the university graduate did not respond, he said: “Well you really should.”Miss Broughton said he then told her the pub, the Rutland Arms in Sheffield, would get more customers and she would receive more tips if she boosted her décolletage.
She told the tribunal how the comments, which lasted over a six-month period, affected her confidence. "I felt upset and degraded and very self-conscious," she said. "I was a bit scared. I didn't want to talk about it to anyone."
As Bethany said in the office, good for her for having the guts to sue that asshole and the asshole pub that decided he would make a good manager of people.
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Hang on, she was a pub lass serving with small knockers? Who hired her? Fire THAT asshole.
I'll take a pint luv….
I'll take a pint luv….
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she's cute."
Even by the low standards of English (and Seattle) women, she isn't. Big tits can help that problem…sometimes.
Even by the low standards of English (and Seattle) women, she isn't. Big tits can help that problem…sometimes.
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It's the second word, not the first, that makes it offensive. It really doesn't matter what the first word is.
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As a young man, I worked in the restaurant business. I had trouble getting jobs as a waiter, which I whined about to an older waiter. She told me "You'll never make it as a waiter: no tits." I told my mother this story, she laughed and told me how she stuffed her bra and her tips doubled.
Tips are proportional to hotness. Everyone who has worked in a restaurant/bar knows this.
Tips are proportional to hotness. Everyone who has worked in a restaurant/bar knows this.
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If her manager had gotten drunk once and said this, it wouldn't have been that big a deal. Especially if he'd apologized afterwards. But repeatedly over 6 months? There's a problem with that picture.
@2: I concur with you, for once in your misbegotten deranged intertubes career.
Also, Alleged, your impression of what you think British people are like is abysmal.
@2: I concur with you, for once in your misbegotten deranged intertubes career.
Also, Alleged, your impression of what you think British people are like is abysmal.
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@5
I profoundly disagree.
Perhaps this is all anecdote, but I've never tipped according to tits. After all, if I wanted to be aroused, I've got a half a terabyte of women performing far more compelling acts than wearing a push-up bra. More importantly, I know when I'm being exploited, especially according to my libido; it makes me uncomfortable and makes me less well-inclined to its author.
In general, as a man there's a good maxim to follow: never trust women. If any woman shows any untoward or undeserved interest to you, there's something profoundly wrong, and you should get the fuck out.
I always tip according to the level of service; and I've found excellent service to, for the most part, not to be an issue of gender.
I profoundly disagree.
Perhaps this is all anecdote, but I've never tipped according to tits. After all, if I wanted to be aroused, I've got a half a terabyte of women performing far more compelling acts than wearing a push-up bra. More importantly, I know when I'm being exploited, especially according to my libido; it makes me uncomfortable and makes me less well-inclined to its author.
In general, as a man there's a good maxim to follow: never trust women. If any woman shows any untoward or undeserved interest to you, there's something profoundly wrong, and you should get the fuck out.
I always tip according to the level of service; and I've found excellent service to, for the most part, not to be an issue of gender.
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@6,
I don't know how sexual harassment law works in the UK, but, in the U.S., it has to be a pattern of behavior to gain traction in court. The plaintiff also would have to make repeated attempts to make the behavior stop by seeking the help of superiors. Judging by this case at least, it seems like British law isn't all that different.
I don't know how sexual harassment law works in the UK, but, in the U.S., it has to be a pattern of behavior to gain traction in court. The plaintiff also would have to make repeated attempts to make the behavior stop by seeking the help of superiors. Judging by this case at least, it seems like British law isn't all that different.
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No jokes about the name of the pub? the Rutland Arms, as in Rut Land (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rut_(mammal…))
On a more serious note, If you are "quite a retiring, shy girl" as her lawyer characterized her, then maybe work in a pub is not the dream job for you. Let's face it, even if the customers start off quiet and polite, they won't stay that way if you're doing your job (i.e. bringing pints of British beer to them).
On a more serious note, If you are "quite a retiring, shy girl" as her lawyer characterized her, then maybe work in a pub is not the dream job for you. Let's face it, even if the customers start off quiet and polite, they won't stay that way if you're doing your job (i.e. bringing pints of British beer to them).
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@2, she really is cute.
@9, boisterous outgoing girls don't like being referred to as little tits either. As I'm certain the boss would have taken exception had she referred to him as pencil dick.
If it were me, I'd use the cash settlement to buy some boobs.
@9, boisterous outgoing girls don't like being referred to as little tits either. As I'm certain the boss would have taken exception had she referred to him as pencil dick.
If it were me, I'd use the cash settlement to buy some boobs.
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She won 10k and the Chair of the Itty-Bitty-Titty Committee.
@3, oh yeah. How do you get a whole country with such a lopsided attractiveness scale? British guys, generally good looking. British women, handsome.
@3, oh yeah. How do you get a whole country with such a lopsided attractiveness scale? British guys, generally good looking. British women, handsome.
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@11 a prestigious post indeed
the troll in me wants to say that she won just about enough to get a boob job
the troll in me wants to say that she won just about enough to get a boob job
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@13, if flat jokes are 10k, fat ass jokes are going to have to be 20k.
@12, new frames and a lip waxing would be helpful.
@12, new frames and a lip waxing would be helpful.
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Great, another American habit imported to the Beautiful Isles: humorless, sexless American feminism.
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@16, at least women there still drink and are a little slutty. Seattle is no drinking, no fun, no dancing and one of the least sexually active cities in the US. Plus there's frumpy dressing although, a little less looking like your father. I don't want to generalize though.
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Yeah, there's a blurb of a story about these events in the Telegraph so it all must be exactly true - Stranger Journalism 101.
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mitten, @18's is the only comment you need. The source is ridiculous, and it was posted to elicit idiot-frat-boy comments and righteous indignation. Thanks for doing your part.
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Seriously, @22: Biff @17, for instance, has made the childish leap from his inability to get laid all the way to the women of Seattle are sexless crones.
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