Woman fire after shaving head for cancer charity

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Babyface Member Posts: 91
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
Woman fire after shaving head for cancer charity
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  • Babyface
    Babyface Member Posts: 91
    edited June 2008

    I dont know how everyone else here will feel when they read this but I really wish I practiced employment law right now.  I am so angry after reading this. Can you imagine what this(---- fill in the blank) restaurant owner would do with a server on prolonged chemo.Yell

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/05/shaved-head.html

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  • althea
    althea Member Posts: 1,595
    edited June 2008

    While I agree that it really stinks for her to lose her job because of what she did to raise funds for a good cause, I also believe she'll probably be happier and more prosperous in that new job which she's already acquired.  I hope people in the vicinity will share your distaste for that restaurant's actions and eat somewhere else!  Now that would be an appropriate consequence imo. 

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  • BMac
    BMac Member Posts: 650
    edited June 2008

    I heard about this on the news the other night and I, too, wondered how they would treat a woman who had lost her hair due to chemo.  I say both cases would be discrimination.  Men shave their heads, why can't women.  I'm sure this place has received a lot of bad press. 

    Barbara

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  • mke
    mke Member Posts: 584
    edited June 2008

    I think that restaurant is a goner.   The manager will probably have to move to another town.

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  • Curlylocks
    Curlylocks Member Posts: 1,060
    edited June 2008

    This incident happened at a restaurant in Owen Sound, Ontario which is a few hours north of where I live here in Ontario, Canada.  This is a small town and apparently the "locals" are in uprage about this incident.

    The women came back to work after shaving her head and they told her to take the summer off that it was not appropriate for their restaurant.  She raised $2,700 for Cancer by doing this and was really proud of herself.

    It makes me ill that people would even think that she did not belong working there after shaving her head.  I wonder how they would treat someone who actually had cancer, both in my opinion are discrimination.

    I hope that owners get what they deserve.....

    Michele 

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  • Jule
    Jule Member Posts: 250
    edited June 2008

    That's disgusting - she should sue. She would win.

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  • gracejon
    gracejon Member Posts: 972
    edited June 2008

    I hate finding hair in my food.  Perhaps all food workers can shave their heads (just kidding). 

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  • BMac
    BMac Member Posts: 650
    edited June 2008

    Gracejon

    Right on!

    Barbara

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2008

    I am sure a Canadian attorney will help her .... but she didn't really lose --- she may get more donations from the publicity plus she has a new job!

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