Originally posted by wolf Regarding the waitress' skankage quotient, I was thinking the same thing and wondered how she won the contest (selling the most beer) in the first place.

Regarding the legal problem, I have two guesses. One is that the manager was probably aware that the waitresses thought the prize was a car and did not correct the mis-impression and therefore took some responsibility for it. Guess two is the ever-present threat of a sympathetic jury and bad publicity. Never underestimate the power of a greedy lawyer and 12 really stupid people.

A couple of things I just noticed about this pic:

After the word CONTEST, there are the letters 'NS'. I would surmise this stands for 'Non-Smoking', inasmuch as this is an event geared toward the kids, as it were.

Also, the contest is being held at 12:30 on a Sunday afternoon, presumably to give the pole-dancers-in-training time to rush home from church and change into their skimpy shorts and tie-up tees.

Speaking of hot, blond pole dancers.:)

Oh.....My!!!! :D ;) HOW PRECIOUS!!!

Mommy, I want one of those!!! :haha:

It's a dog-monkey! Or, to coin a term, a donkey!

Of course it's a donkey. You don't think a blonde pole dancer would be republican, do you? :)

Rookie. Forgot to wear something to tuck the Scooby Snacks in.

Yeah, I personally have never understood the proper application of "skanky" either.

More Hooters-related info: From today's Sunday NY Times Magazine article on teenage dating (or lack thereof):

i guess the same thing can be said about her, er, um, qualifications to be a hooters girl.

sorry, to all. i couldn't help it.

I read that one as well.

Depressing really.

Yeah, it was, but I wasn't entirely comfortable with the fact that any problems with "the old ways" were conveniently swept under the rug.

If it could be reasonably proved that the manager made every effort to have her believe that the prize was a Toyota, and leading her out to the parking lot goes a long way to show that that was the case, then IMO she had a case. The fact that it was a regional sales contest, with presumably tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, would have made the prize of a car reasonable. Certainly, a $10 toy would be considered substandard compensation.

Working class people have a lot of sympathy for this kind of stuff. While jokes and other behavior may be seen as harmless, screwing around with how people are compensated, especially in the form of a cruel prank, would not be tolerated.

While it was not sexual harrassment, it was certainly some form of cruel bullying and that is all that it would take for a jury.