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."
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If da chair don’t fit, yo mus not sit!
Like, like . . . that’s a lotta woman. Spare the chair!
LMFAO!
Probably 90%.
Some cribbing, such as used when raising a building, and a cushion could inexpensively seat her.
“I said, ‘I’m sorry I cannot serve you because my spa chair is very small,’”
A costumer is a precious thing.
Another way to handle it might have been. “My usual equipment is not up to the job, let us see what we can come up with to help you.”
Being large myself i understand not all things will hold me.
“Yahoo Lifestyle was unable to locate Tina Lewis for comment.....”
How could they miss her...she blots out the sun.
nully *ducking* and running for cover!
Large..and in charge
Refrigerator big as a
Garage.
“Lewis, who gets her nails done every two weeks...”
Do they accept food stamps for that?
She will...eventually...
actually it is very sad to see how unhealthy people are...go to the buffets in vegas for some amazing specimens...i have seen a whole family of these types...very sad.
you go nowwwwww…….
It is sad.
You scare my wife!
At one company I worked we got a new boss. He took everyone out, one by one, for a get to know you talk at the coffee shop next door. When he and I were done I went to slide the cheap plastic chair back and caught a leg on a cobble stone, folding and breaking it.
He said it was like watching the Titanic go down...
Nicely played
Oy. Not a bad idea for a new boss, but maybe a nicer restaurant might have been better. :)
Hey, amusement parks have those height signs -- "Must be this tall to use this ride". It's not a bad idea and there seems to be legal precedence. It's a safety issue.
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