Though in this case, the terminated employee shouldn’t have sued for her job. She should have sued for sexual harassment. Any 52 year old man who tells a colleague he’s getting a bulge in his pants has passed the point of propriety.

A man can’t control his feelings for his employee, makes lewd comments to her, exchanged text messages, the wife demands that she gets fired, and they call themselves Christians. Despicable.

Hostile Gospel on December 22, 2012 at 1:13 PM

My objection to the ‘at will’ thing was that his reason for firing her was that HE couldn’t control his own horniness. So he abused his right as an employer because of things that HE willingly chose to do.

That’s not at-will employment, that’s at-will blame-the-employee-then-hide-behind-the-skirts-of-the-law.

Though in this case, the terminated employee shouldn’t have sued for her job. She should have sued for sexual harassment. Any 52 year old man who tells a colleague he’s getting a bulge in his pants has passed the point of propriety.

A man can’t control his feelings for his employee, makes lewd comments to her, exchanged text messages, the wife demands that she gets fired, and they call themselves Christians. Despicable.

I bet I get axed within the week.

CW on December 22, 2012 at 10:51 AM

I hear you. If this becomes the law of the land then I’ll be unemployable. Back off ,ugly people. Us hotties have a right to work.

Knight and Nelson — both married with children — started exchanging text messages, mostly about personal matters, such as their families. Knight’s wife, who also worked in the dental office, found out about the messages and demanded Nelson be fired. The Knights consulted with their pastor, who agreed that terminating Nelson was appropriate.

Their pastor approved, which probably means they went for marriage counseling.

Nelson, 32, worked for Knight for 10 years, and he considered her a stellar worker. But in the final months of her employment, he complained that her tight clothing was distracting, once telling her that if his pants were bulging that was a sign her clothes were too revealing, according to the opinion.

After a remark like that, Dr. “Hardt Johnson” would have to fire me for accidentally spilling hot coffee on his problem area.

liberals: blaming others and making excuses.

which one do you want to act like?

and wow- men complain when women are “ugly,” but now men complain when women are too attractive. what exactly do you expect us to do- try our best to look average? not ugly enough so that you make fun of us, but not attractive enough to distract you and get fired? we can’t win.

Sachiko on December 22, 2012 at 12:07 PM

True, and men for the most part don’t have to try to walk that line or suffer the consequences.