Sex On Menu At Hooters? Trainer suggests Servers "Put Out"

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0414061hooters1.html

We've carefully read the Hooters employee handbook and it does not address what a manager is supposed to do when a corporate trainer tells waitresses they could earn extra money by sexually servicing customers. In a federal lawsuit, Jarman Gray, a former assistant manager of an Alabama Hooters, charges that he was fired last year after complaining about comments made to employees by a female "visiting training manager." In his April 7 U.S. District Court complaint, a copy of which you'll find below, the 31-year-old Gray claims that a trainer named Cat told waitresses that they were "the ones with the pussys and you are in control because of that." Then she reportedly added, "If you need the extra money, go ahead and suck a dick or fuck a customer if the money is right." Gray contends that offended waitresses approached him and "asked if he could resolve this problem and correct Cat's offensive behavior." But after he called the Hooters corporate office to complain about the trainer's remarks, Gray said he was canned by the owner of the Auburn franchise where he worked. Gray, who is suing for sexual harassment and retaliation, charges that franchisee Darrell Spikes told him, "I'm top dog, you don't call corporate. You no longer have a job here." Gray, who worked at Hooters for about nine months, filed his complaint days after receiving a "right to sue" letter from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In mid-2005, Gray filed a complaint with the EEOC alleging that he had been terminated "in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment in the workplace." (9 pages)

[wakeme2008]

1. While I am sure it happens all the time at Hooters

What I find troubling is corp is saying it is OK...

[RagingInMiami]

2. I wonder if they have happy hour specials

[Dr.Phool]

3. I've only been in a Hooters once. Years ago.

Lousy food.

But what the hell, maybe I'll give them another chance.:evilgrin:

[Lorien]

4. Hooters is a "solidly republican family company"

according to one of their vendors who I worked for last year. :eyes:

[RamboLiberal]

5. 97% Donations to Repukes

Hooters, $59K, 97% to Republicans.

http://www.dfnyc.org/cms/node/1127

[TexasLawyer]

6. Witnesses

It sounds like he would have lots of witnesses to the circumstances of his firing.

It also sounds like criminal pandering. Alabama Code:

16-6-12 Pandering.

A person commits the offense of pandering when he or she solicits a person to perform an act of prostitution in his or her own behalf or in behalf of a third person or when he or she knowingly assembles persons at a fixed place for the purpose of being solicited by others to perform an act of prostitution.

[SoCalDem]

7. Geez.. Talk about a motivational speaker

I find it a bit "freaky" that a trainer would say those things in front od people he did not already know...I would like to hear the tapes...could be a few people looking to tap the money-keg at Hooters?

[Triana]

8. Kudos to Jarman Gray

For doing the right thing, even if it cost him his job. If he got such a letter from the EEOC the EEOC may file the case on his behalf.

[MazeRat7]

9. Gray sounds about as politically adept as the current admin....

I'm not having any sympathy for this Gray person given the details posted...Wheter it's harassment or embezzlement there are ways to effect change, going "straight to the top" is not one of the ways. After two strike outs on this issue you would think he/she would have adopted a different tact.

MZr7