What were they thinking? ‘Leave your evidence after the beep’
January 18, 2010 by Sam NarisiPosted in: Discrimination, HR Tech, In this week's e-newsletter - Tech, Latest News & Views
It’s bad enough for a manager to make blatantly discriminatory comments to an employee — even worse when the comments are permanently recorded in the employee’s voice mail.
A woman working as a server at a restaurant learned she was pregnant. She mentioned the pregnancy to the owner’s daughter, who also worked there. The daughter recommended she not tell anyone.
However, the daughter told the owner. That’s when the owner called the employee and left a voice mail about his plans to discriminate: “The first time any sign of that pregnancy shows up, you’re through,” he said. According to him, she’d be able to keep her job “through the third month and then it’s time to go.”
Soon after that, the woman was fired.
Not surprisingly, she sued. She played the voice mail during her trial, and the court ruled in her favor.
Cite: EEOC v. J.H. Hein Corp.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
OWNER IS JUST PLAIN S-T-U-P-I-D!!!
January 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
WOW! Guess the owners daughter knew what the reaction was going to be.
January 26th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Wow ! I guess this was at a strip restaurant! Well – he won’t be doing that any more!
January 26th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
That’s a *special* kind of stupid, right there.
January 27th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I don’t know Lynn…I think he just might be dumb enough to do it again. In the words of comedian Ron White, “you can’t fix stupid!”
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:39 pm
“Amen”!! To all the comments!! Possum, just love your comment & KR, you are so right!! Thanks for the laughs, All!! Guess the owner really wasn’t “thinking” was he??