Posted on 09/16/2019 6:31:10 AM PDT by simpson96
Tina Lewis, who had visited the Rose Nails salon a week prior to the incident to get her eyelashes done, had returned to receive a pedicure. Instead, she was told by an employee, Marie Bui, that the salon chairs were not big enough for her to sit in. Lewis, who gets her nails done every two weeks, has never had an experience like this before(snip)
"I was like, 'Can I get a pedicure? And what chair do I sit in?' And [the employee] was like, the chairs were not big enough for me to sit in. And I was like, 'Are you serious? So you’re saying that I'm too big to sit in a chair?'" Lewis said.
Bui admitted that she informed Lewis she would not be able to get a pedicure due to her size.
"I said, 'I'm sorry I cannot serve you because my spa chair is very small,'" Bui said, according to ABC7 Chicago. Bui adding that she did not intend to sound mean or rude, but claims that another customer had damaged one of the salon chairs, and Bui believed it was caused by that person's weight.
(snip)the salon owner said that they had the right to deny service to Lewis, adding that the chairs cost hundreds of dollars and they are unable to afford repairs to damaged chairs.
“Someone needs to go down there and let them know that if they do have [weight] requirements, that they need to be posted on the door,” Lewis said.
Lewis said that the employees at the salon are lucky that they told her this, and not a woman who may have low self-esteem. Despite remaining confident in herself, the interaction left Lewis shocked.
"It was... very disrespectful,” Lewis said. “To me, I felt like it was discrimination."
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
If you want to be fat, fine, be happy in your eating.
But don’t expect the world to always accommodate you.
You should pay more for your insurance. And your plane tickets.
And this is what passes for news?
Only in woke 2019 could “fat woman denied service at nail salon” be considered headline news at Yahoo.
Eat broccorri you been here four houah!
I didn’t have to look........but I did.................I was right......................again................
What do you suppose are the odds that we are paying for her rent, utilities, cell phone, health insurance, and food? But she can go to the salon every week for some beauty procedures?
FTA....
....However, the salon did not break any law. Unlike discriminating against a person’s race or gender, which is protected under the law, weight discrimination is not illegal. In fact, in 49 states, it is even legal to terminate an employee for their weight.
Rose Nails did not answer Yahoo Lifestyle’s phone calls to comment on the incident. Yahoo Lifestyle was unable to locate Tina Lewis for comment.....
I took a fast look at the comments at the site, and even on liberal Yahoo, she’s not getting any sympathy — but the salon owner is.
Our family had to bury a member who weighed a great deal. The undertaker told us there is an extra charge for bodies over 350 lbs.
Yahoo is not news.
What do you suppose are the odds that we are paying for her rent, utilities, cell phone, health insurance, and food? But she can go to the salon every week for some beauty procedures?
I once was in line at my local grocery store, behind a woman who was wearing designer jeans and shoes and had fresh, fancy salon nails. She paid for her entire grocery bill with TWO different EBT cards.
I was shocked. I wanted to ask if I could put a few of my things on her tab, since I was helping to pay for them.
I wonder if nail salons accept EBT.
UNREAL!!
Obviously this woman really cares about her appearance (except for being yuge!) so she must be accommodated and get the pedicure.
How many of those women are getting welfare checks? Inquiring minds want to know if our tax money is funding their maintenance.
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone without shoes a shirt or those with gigantic asses.
She's too big to sit in a sofa.
If you don’t fit in the chair.....
Can’t she go to Earl Scheib?
Yep. One prosaic outrage after another in the modern SJW netherworld.
The real ‘beauty’ of all this is if the salon had offered her a ‘stool’ to sit on so they could accommodate her, she would have had another ‘complaint’ that she was being treated differently.
Remember the old carnival signs
YOU MUST BE THIS TALL TO RIDE THIS RIDE
Maybe that sign should be expanded to put up as sign of size of the chair and make customers back up to the sign and NO overhang, regular prices..
Would work in movie theaters, airlines etc..
Whenever I go into a place and the seats appear to be too narrow, I consider my expanded spread and let it go.
I remember back around the turn of the century (WHO among us believed we would make that statement AND ‘ridiculed’ those ‘Old Fartz’ that did some 60 years ago) I went aboard a Navy ship and noticed the only real change, other than fancier enlisted quarters, was
The ladders were steeper and the passageways were narrower, the hatches taller & narrower.....
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