Getting the boss' coffee: sexual discrimination?

Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2008-07-12 23:47

At least one judge has some cajones. Read it here. The contention was that the woman's supervisor who had her get him coffee regularly was engaging in sexually discriminatory behavior. The judge ruled that such requests may be annoying but are not inherently sexually discriminatory. Good for him.

Literally, a federal case was made out of this. How much do you suppose this case cost to bring?

But I have heard tell of female executives who hire male secretaries specifically because they get a kick out of sending the fellow off on coffee runs and so on. Wonder why no one ever seems to make much ado about that? Excerpt:

'Nine minutes after receptionist Tamara Klopfenstein complained - for the second time - about getting her bosses coffee, she was fired.

"I don't expect to serve and wait on you by making and serving you coffee every day," Klopfenstein e-mailed to her boss at National Sales & Supply L.L.C., of Bensalem.

Manager Jason Shrager told her the issue wasn't "open for debate."
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Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller couldn't resist punning his way through a decision on the deeper issue - whether Klopfenstein's managers had created a hostile and discriminatory work environment by requiring the receptionist to fetch them coffee.
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"The act of getting coffee is not, by itself, a gender-specific act," Schiller wrote. The fact that a vice president wrote "looks nice, dresses well," on notes when she was hired also doesn't add up to discrimination, the judge wrote.'

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Another feminist idiot is squashed and humiliated.

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Single men is the only social group benefited from feminism.

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Submitted by nbdspcl on Sun, 2008-07-13 07:40

manonthestreet

To be truthful I don't think any employee should be treated like a servant, that is unless you happen to be a waiter or waitress.

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Submitted by trotter on Sun, 2008-07-13 14:27

dictates that you can be released for any reason, or no reason at all.

so she released herself. and she will not win this case.

an employee IS a servant to the employer. if her boss requests that she bring coffee. she'd better. unless she doesn't like working there.

oregon dad

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Submitted by oregon dad on Sun, 2008-07-13 15:40

who works for someone else is expected at some time

to just do what you are told or get out the door. been there, lots.

many guys face differing kinds of humiliation every day

on the job a lot worse than this.

see what special treatment in the jobplace becomes?

when you give special treatment/status based on gender,

race, etc. in any area of the law it is wrong. it is an entitlement

attitude and those being stepped on see the mark on their back where

the bitch stood, cuze see's just sooooo special.

i will retire soon and have been working since..well real young.

and i have seen the workplace/office devolve into a very unpleasant

place, i'll grant her that. but it has a lot to do

w/ (imho) just this type victim (or maybe, i really don't

want to work and this lawsuit might just make my dreams come true) attitude.

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Submitted by daveinga on Sun, 2008-07-13 19:37

(From one bimbo interviewed for the article) -- "Audrey Jackson, an administrative assistant at an engineering firm in Center City, doesn't mind the coffee.

"I would do anything for my boss except sleep with him, because he's married," she said."

Translation -- "I am going to have his baby in eight months."

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Submitted by Roy on Sun, 2008-07-13 20:10