Is this discrimination?

[AGBF]

For no particular reason this made me LOL

For a reason I can pinpoint-Kenny's wicked sense of humor-it made me smile broadly. No pun intended.

Deb

 

[Yimmers]

I'm kinda with boredstiff here. Charging her extra because their chairs don't accommodate heavier weights is not really different than airlines charging people for 2 seats, IMO. But, it's bad practice to not advise your clients up front of extra fees, and if you're going to do it, you should have it posted and apply it to everyone whom that fee would apply to. You'll be guaranteed to get flak from people, but if she felt her chairs could not constantly accommodate heavier clients, then she either needs to buy ones that do or politely decline to help people in the first place.

Personally, I see obesity as a problem created and perpetuated by many things today - the prevalence of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) in our food, the corporatization of our farming industry (the use of corn, pesticides, and hormones in much of our food), the lack of healthy, fresh fruits and vegetables in schools, the decline of gym class in schools...for god's sakes, I'm just eating some Korean rice cakes, only to find out that it uses corn syrup in the rice cake, but also in the red bean filling. I find these vast, corporate farms using chemicals, seeds, and fertilizers provided by huge chemical plants to be appalling. Okay, sorry for the rant...

 

[zoebartlett]

Salons can and do charge what they want, and I don't think what they did can be called discrimination in the legal sense. I don't agree with it AT ALL though, and if I found out about this charge before hand, I definitely would have turned around and found another salon.

 

[AGBF]

Salons can and do charge what they want, and I don't think what they did can be called discrimination in the legal sense.

Should they be able to? Should an establishment legally be able to discriminate based on weight if it cannot prove it is caused financial harm by a person's weight? Should it be able to discriminate if it can prove it is caused financial harm by a person's weight but doesn't discriminate against other classes of people who cause it financial harm?

AGBF

 

[risingsun]

No damage to the salon owner's chair was done. What is she going to do, weigh her customers before they get into the chair? She had a bad attitude and insulted her client. I think that this is discrimination, whether or not the client was in a protected group. Bad customer service will lose you more than the client involved. In every corporate meeting, this has been drilled into my brain. This situation should be used in training films in what not to do.