I thought it made for some interesting discussion!

Kat

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Kendall D.
Corbett<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Deri,
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> OK, I guess I'll stop trying to make it into something it's not.... At least
> it kind of woke up the list a little ;-{)}
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> Hope I didn't make any enemies.
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> Kendall
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> On Aug 18, 2009 4:15pm, Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On Monday 17 August 2009 20:08:06 Kendall D. Corbett wrote:
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>> > Deri, Here's another article:
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>> > http://tinyurl.com/oxynuo
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>> > From the picture of Ms. Dean and the tone of her comments and the fact
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>> > filed suit, I don't think she asked to wear the sweater. I think, as the
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>> > article states, she was _instructed_ to wear the sweater by one employee
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>> > "she was told during employee training to buy a plain white cardigan to
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>> > wear along with her uniform of jeans and a white polo shirt, in order to
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>> > cover up the join between her prosthetic arm and the partial upper arm
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>> > which she was born."
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>> > and then when challenged by others (including her manager), she may have
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>> > used the terms "granted special permission" to wear the sweater" to
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>> > describe her trainer's instruction. She describes herself in the
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>> > article "as quite a confident girl."
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>> The new article is not well researched since it says "was sent to the
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>> stockroom because her prosthetic arm violated the store's "Look Policy,"".
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>> Whereas in her own words at the trial it is clear she was offered work in
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>> stockroom so that she could CONTINUE to wear her cardigan, since "The
>> Look"
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>> However if you look at the actual reports of what Dean said at the
>> tribunal:-
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>> "Ms Barbera allegedly told Miss Dean she could only return to the shop
>> floor if
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>> she removed a cardigan that the student used to cover her prosthetic arm."
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>> (Ms Barbera is her boss - the "allegedly" is because this came out from Ms
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>> Deans evidence).
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>> And further:-
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>> "Miss Dean told the tribunal, in central London, she felt "taunted" when
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>> manager told her she could return to the floor of the firm's flagship
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>> she removed the cardigan."
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>> It is crystal clear that A&F only required her to remove the cardigan to
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>> continue work in sales. This is diametrically opposite to what your
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>> This is why its not a "disability" case (as the judge said), A&F have a
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>> "look" policy, but were quite happy for a disabled girl to work in sales
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>> long as she abided by the "look" (ie wore the same sales.uniform as the
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>> other staff).
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>> Cheers
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>> Deri
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