Get yourself a cup of Joe at any one of Marylou’s fine locations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The servers are pretty and the coffee is hot. It’s the Hooter’s of New England coffee shops — what’s not to love?
Lots, apparently, if you’re one of the bluenoses at the EEOC. The Boston Herald has the story:
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been quietly probing Marylou’s’ hiring practices for nearly a year, the Herald has learned, with investigators pulling reams of job applications, interviewing company brass and grilling the 29-store chain’s pink-clad clerks about their co-workers’ gender, age, race and body type, according to the company.
Marylou’s execs deny any discrimination.
“We have never had a complaint against us for age discrimination or any kind of discrimination,” founder Marylou Sandry wrote in a plea for help to state Sen. John F. Keenan (D-Quincy). “We feel that the EEOC is on a witch hunt.”
A major witch hunt:
Katherine J. Michon, a Boston lawyer who specializes in discrimination cases, said the length and scope of the investigation indicates the feds are serious about cracking down on the company.
We ran up another $5,000,000,000,000 on the national Amex last year, and the EEOC is spending oodles because some spoilsport bureaucrat is worried that the girls at Marylou’s might be too pretty.
It’s time to start abolishing agencies. The do-nothing, busybody* EEOC would be a fine place to start.
*Yes, it is possible to be both a do-nothing and a busybody — if you’re a federal agency.
“Crucify them!” is their rallying cry.
Ugly people need jobs too!
So let’s use the muscle of the Federal government to make sure all waitresses are ugly.
Also, morons need jobs too!
Let’s use the muscle of the Federal government to ensure that idiots get jobs designing steel bridges.
White people need jobs too!
Let’s use the muscle of the Federal government to ensure that the NAACP only hires white people.
Bad drivers need jobs too!
Let’s use the muscle of the Federal government to ensure that trucking companies hire equal numbers of good and bad drivers.
Equality for all!
Ugly people have plenty of opportunities for advancement. Can you imagine someone like Don Rickles having the career he had if he were handsome looking? Half of his act is his unavoidable homeliness.
I don’t know about all of these, but as far as morons go, it’s been taken care of. Just walk into the offices of any federal agency.
“It’s time to start abolishing agencies. The do-nothing, busybody* EEOC would be a fine place to start.”
Not to mention they were requiring Catholic institutions to provide contraception to employees under insurance plans under both Bush terms before Obamacare was even heard of.
The EEOC should look into why there’s not a MaryLou’s closer to Boston! Their coffee is great, but the South Shore is for suckers.
How about the lead witch-hunter park her broom for a spell and open her own establishment?
She could hire Helen Thomas, Bella Abzug, Maxine Waters and Shelia Jackson-Lee as her first — well, whatever category these critters fall under.
She could call it “Who Gives a Hooters”
Should be an interesting mind-your-OWN business venture…
“Yes, it is possible to be both a do-nothing and a busybody — if you’re a federal agency.”
Lots of activity for bigger budgets, very little of value accomplished for more power over the subjects. I think it is the unofficial motto of federal agencies.
Is pretty a suspect class?
What if you were pretty and illegal, would that be a wash?
It’s interesting, our government can find the time to sue Arizona and Mary Lou’s, but can’t be bothered with uniformed and armed thugs threatening to kill cracker babies at a polling place.
Our government can attack a private company for opening a new office in the Carolinas but can’t bother to check into how one of our border agents was murdered with guns our own government was running to drug cartels.
Yep, Mary Lou’s waitresses are the MOST important item on our government’s agenda. Well that and the overthrow.
I am not a legal expert but as I understand it the suits against Hooters fizzled because they were explicit in their employee documentation and corporate mission. In effect they came right out and said that the business was not only food and drink but “entertainment”. As such they could hire waitresses who fit the “Hooters Girl” image because it was a part of the “entertainment” they were selling to customers.
The legal term is Bona Fide Occupational Qualification. So you do not have to hire a 5’2″ 90lb fireman, etc.
Never been there but looking at the web site seems like it would not be hard to defend Marylou’s which sells a very definite image and atmosphere (seems more BFF pink cute girlie fun than sexy but that would lead to hiring pink cute girls right?)
What a waste of money.
Two words: “Harrison Bergson” — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
I do hope that someone is keeping track of all these executive branch agencies that really, *REALLY* need to be given the boot, next inauguration day. If an executive order can create them, then an executive order should be more than sufficient to kick them to the curb. My concern? Does Romney have the stones to do the needful? If the entire congreff isn’t pi$$ing and moaning to beat the band on day 2, then he’s not doing the job he’s to be elected to do.