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A corporate trainer for the Hooters restaurant chain has been advising the women who work there that if they need extra money they can offer blowjobs and intercourse to the customers. So anybody feel like going out for some wings and beer?

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

w00t! *ahem* (Walks to Hooters)
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(Comes back slapped)

Fantasy meets Reality. I hate it when that happens.

I'd rather get me some of that Cracker Barrel poontang.

Damn. That franchisee is going to lose his ass over this.

A corporate trainer for the Hooters restaurant chain has been advising the women who work there that if they need extra money they can offer blowjobs and intercourse to the customers. So anybody feel like going out for some wings and beer?

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0414061hooters1.html
While I'm all for sexual ... *Ahem* ... liberation, the article states that he was fired for going over the franchise owner's head to corporate. That, IHMO, is a completely ligitimate reason for firing a manager.

[ Runs to his local Hooters restaurant! ] :D

I'd rather get me some of that Cracker Barrel poontang.
ROFLMAO! You nut! :D

While I'm all for sexual ... *Ahem* ... liberation, the article states that he was fired for going over the franchise owner's head to corporate. That, IHMO, is a completely ligitimate reason for firing a manager.

[ Runs to his local Hooters restaurant! ] :DThe EEOC obviously felt he had a case, because they sent him a right to sue letter. And from a PR point of view, I'm betting that Hooters is really freaking glad they got the call, because they can pawn this off as a rogue franchisee gone bad and won't take the kind of massive PR hit this could cause (not to mention heading off a spate of lawsuits from other disgruntled employees).

sigh

Allow me to elucidate.

Waitress - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Prostitute

See how they are seperate? Getting them confused can cause severe social embarrassment. (Occasionally acute physical pleasure, but generally just embarrassment.)

The EEOC obviously felt he had a case, because they sent him a right to sue letter. And from a PR point of view, I'm betting that Hooters is really freaking glad they got the call, because they can pawn this off as a rogue franchisee gone bad and won't take the kind of massive PR hit this could cause (not to mention heading off a spate of lawsuits from other disgruntled employees).
The proof will be when the courts award him back pay and reinstatement.

As to the corporate trainer who made those comments, I think it would be interesting to find out if she had been fired.

I've known several of the women who work at Hooters around this area, and almost without exception they are the sort who would be totally horrified at the suggestion they could make a bit of extra money in the ways suggested.

The proof will be when the courts award him back pay and reinstatement.

As to the corporate trainer who made those comments, I think it would be interesting to find out if she had been fired.

I've known several of the women who work at Hooters around this area, and almost without exception they are the sort who would be totally horrified at the suggestion they could make a bit of extra money in the ways suggested.
Absolutely. According to the link, they were the ones who originally complained about the trainer, and he just took their complaints up the ladder. I guess we could argue over whether he took the right ladder or not, but I think, on the whole, he did exactly the right thing.

Here's the way I see the situation--and why I think the franchise owner is an idiot. Let's say that one or two of the waitresses decide to take the trainer's advice. That has two negative effects. The first is that it opens the owner up to charges of pandering, even if he doesn't know anything about it. The second is that it creates a hostile work environment for the women who aren't hooking--because the kind of dumb-ass men who would pay a Hooters girl for a hummer aren't going to think that there's only one or two girls on the take--they'll start propositioning anything in orange shorts, and then you've got trouble. That manager, regardless of who he told, did the right thing by making a stink about it.

APRIL 13--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)

oh they better all have some good explanation for that one. if the franchise owner didnt complain to corporate, if he didnt apologize to the waitresses and promise action against the trainer, if he didnt speak to the trainer himself, he needs to be found liable and pay some big time money.

if corporate is still employing "cat" then they also need to face some very big damages. its one thing to be hired because you have big tits. its another to be treated like a whore. no one who works outside a brothel should be "trained" that way.

They need to start building hooters in Ireland :(

A corporate trainer for the Hooters restaurant chain has been advising the women who work there that if they need extra money they can offer blowjobs and intercourse to the customers. So anybody feel like going out for some wings and beer?

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

You know, I've never been to one.

I might have to re-asses my position on that.

The sooner Hooters is out of business the better!

That place has too long used women desperate for any job to have themselves paradeded in front of its usual cliental, wife beaters and other neandertals who think women are just sex objects or the personal property of men.

Maybe he's working on a new chain called hXXXters.

sigh

Allow me to elucidate.

Waitress - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Prostitute

See how they are seperate? Getting them confused can cause severe social embarrassment. (Occasionally acute physical pleasure, but generally just embarrassment.)
No offense to anyone, but I think "Hooter's Waitress" is a few more bars towards "Prostitute" than a normal "Waitress." The point of a Hooter's Waitress is too dress skimpy and have big.. tracts of lands.. and thus the very lure is female sexuality, but just short of acknowledging it and becoming a stripper.

I've heard the food is crap, although skimpy girls are a treat I think we can all agree going to a strip club would be a better use of your money. Considering the closest Hooters is over an hour away, it is just not worth the time and money.

.... who think women are just sex objects or the personal property of men.
They're neither?

They need to start building hooters in Ireland :(

If that ever happens I'm leaving the country... No seriously, they serve food there... I'd hate to think what could end up in it...

By the way is there an age restriction for Hooters? Because if not, then I doubt that's legal...

If that ever happens I'm leaving the country... No seriously, they serve food there... I'd hate to think what could end up in it...

By the way is there an age restriction for Hooters? Because if not, then I doubt that's legal...

Oh ya....ewwwww.

I wouldn't think there is. It's just waitresses with big boobs and small tops. Other than that it's like any other restaurant. I think.

I hope the guy gets super rich off this lawsuit. Hooters can learn that playing CYA does not work when you have those dirty things... lawyers! I wonder if the "restaurant" will have the brains to settle quickly...

Oh ya....ewwwww.

I wouldn't think there is. It's just waitresses with big boobs and small tops. Other than that it's like any other restaurant. I think.And tiny shorts and flesh-colored tights.

What I find rather curious is this:

"Calloway informed me that I should discuss this problem with the owner of the franchise, not the corporate office."

What I'd like to know is what Calloway told the franchisee, because they apparently talked.

That is terrible corporate practice, I hope they're forced to pay out a great deal of money.

If he sues and wins, I wonder if he has the option of receiving his back pay in BJs instead of cash. :p

If he sues and wins, I wonder if he has the option of receiving his back pay in BJs instead of cash. :p
How many people that win re-instatement and back pay actually go back to their jobs. I'd just take the back pay and be done with it. I suppose, though, if the manager that fired me was gone, I would probably consider returning.

I'd rather get me some of that Cracker Barrel poontang.
Git-r-done.

And tiny shorts and flesh-colored tights.

What I find rather curious is this:

"Calloway informed me that I should discuss this problem with the owner of the franchise, not the corporate office."

What I'd like to know is what Calloway told the franchisee, because they apparently talked.
At the very least, the franchisee got his ass reamed, because that kind of story reflects poorly on the company as a whole. The press, and more importantly, the public, isn't going to care that it happened at a franchise restaurant instead of a corporate one--they're just going to see "Hooter's trainer suggests hooking on the side" and go after the parent company.

if only hooters was allowed everywhere

Was anyone bored enough to read the Hooters Handbook?

:p They keep spouting the litany of "wholesomeness" and yet, you can't wear anything that detracts from the 'Hooters Girl' look - aka, her rack.

Also, the hair has to be worn down - ew! I can imagine just how many people have found strands of hair in their food.

Was anyone bored enough to read the Hooters Handbook?

:p They keep spouting the litany of "wholesomeness" and yet, you can't wear anything that detracts from the 'Hooters Girl' look - aka, her rack.

Also, the hair has to be worn down - ew! I can imagine just how many people have found strands of hair in their food.Have you ever eaten there? Strands of bleach-blonde hair might improve the taste a bit (not to mention might help you fight off the burning shits you have later on--like acid dripping from your ass).

Have you ever eaten there? Strands of bleach-blonde hair might improve the taste a bit (not to mention might help you fight off the burning shits you have later on--like acid dripping from your ass).


I've only eaten there once-at one outside Tampa,Fl.

I lost my hunger for deep fried food pretty quick-I guess I cant eat that much deep fried batter wings and shrimp.
The girls werent much to speak of- they were surly and seemed dirty and had heavy eastern european accents-not friendly at all, though my friend and I were polite and respectful.

I cant imagine how this report will effect their work environment-some guys already behave badly enough in that environment, as if the girls dress code justifys poor behavior. I dont think business will decrease, I just think the waitresses will suffer more stupid,lewd propositioning.

God bless Hooters. its like disney land for adults. only not evil.