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Posted by Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t on 10/04/07 15:50
> From: Travis Newbury <TravisNewb...@hotmail.com>
> So, I have a restaurant and need a hostess. A woman, with years of
> experience, the best qualified of all the applicants applies for the
> job. The problem is she recently had her face burned in a fire and is
> horribly disfigured...
> Can she sue me because I did not hire her? Discrimination because she
> is "handicaped" because of her disfigured face? Do I want some
> disfigured woman to be the first thing my customers see when they walk
> into my restaurant?
> Hell no.
If your restaurant is large enough to support more than one waiter
working simultaneously during busy hours, I would propose the
following accomodation which would not offend customers in any
major way: Have your less-qualified but prettier waitress greet
customers at the door and ask them whether they'd like service with
their very best waitress, whose face was severely disfigured in a
fire, whereby you can get a table immediately, or service with
"me", the "pretty one", whereby there'll be a ten minute wait for a
table and service will be generally slower throughout the dinner
because "I'm the pretty one and everyone wants me even if they have
to wait longer". The pretty waitress can even show a photo of the
disfigured face to anyone undecided which waitress to select.
My guess is that most women will choose the better-qualified but
disfigured waitress, and most husbands who overrule their wives and
insist on the pretty waitress will sleep on the couch, or worse.
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