PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on May 28, 2023, 03:11:30 PM
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https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/05/27/racial-justice-trainer-fired-for-being-late-47-times-gym-ordered-to-pay-her-11-25-million-n752454
“Racial justice.” This one is going to make your teeth hurt. And if you’re a business owner with employees, it might make your blood boil. Either way, if this is “racial justice,” this country will ultimately be screwed.
A newly-hired trainer at a high-end gym on New York City’s Upper East Side showed up late for work 47 times in just 10 months before she was fired for chronic lateness. The trainer then sued her now-former employer— which resulted in a judgment ordering the gym franchise to pay her $11.25 million in damages.
Here’s more, via The New York Times:
Between 2018 and 2019, Röbynn Europe, a former professional body builder, worked at an Equinox on the Upper East Side, where she managed personal trainers. … There was only one other Black student in her class. But still that had not prepared her for what she described as crass, unfiltered expressions of prejudice from male colleagues in an expensive gym, awash with the scent of eucalyptus oil if not the base notes of enlightenment.
Ms. Europe’s tenure at the club was short-lived; Equinox terminated her employment in less than a year because, the company said, she was late 47 times in the course of 10 months. Ms. Europe held a different view of her firing, believing that her lateness was merely a pretext for discrimination, and soon after she filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, arguing that she had been subjected to a hostile work environment and eventually let go because of her race and gender.
Last week, a predominantly white jury of five women and three men agreed, delivering a verdict in little over an hour. The next day they awarded her $11.25 million in damages.
The swiftness of the jury’s decision and the size of the payout — $10 million in punitive damages and $1.25 million for the distress she suffered — follow a pattern similar to the verdict reached in the same courthouse just a few weeks before, in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against Donald J. Trump.
In both instances, the process and outcome suggest the ways in which recent transformative social movements around race and gender might reframe the way that juries think about the long shadow of emotional disruption that bigotry or sexual violence can produce.
“Transformative social movements around race and gender.” Translation: Blatant discrimination in favor of people of color, non-conservative women, and the LGBTQ community. And, of course, that shining beacon of “All the News That’s Fit to Print” — the left-wing NYT — continues to champion every damn bit of it.
Ms. Europe told the writer of the article exactly what we’d expect her to say — and exactly what the writer wanted to be told because she no doubt believes the same tripe:
Racism and sexism — they are just pervasive in the fitness industry. In coastal cities, training is something you can do without a degree and you can make $75 an hour. There are not a lot of opportunities to do that, so it’s a big draw for people of color.
Note: Not one word of the above quote has a single iota to do with race or racism. So where’s the beef?
To its credit, Equinox Gyms didn’t do what spineless companies across America have done since the George Floyd riots when targeted with charges of racism — which would’ve been to fall on its sword, beg for forgiveness, profess to have seen the BLM light, and pathetically promise to stop its pretend “racist” practices. (See: Spineless NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for a perfect example.)
The company said in a statement it “vehemently disagreed” with the judgment, and stressed that it doesn’t “tolerate discrimination in any form.” In addition, Eqionox filed a motion asking the court to reconsider the case — either via a new trial or a reduction of the massive award amount.
Company’s lawyers maintained that the jurors, “guided by sympathy and emotion,” had “erroneously” bought into the plaintiff’s claim that she was a victim of “racial animus,” and suffered “extreme, unconscionable damages,” as a result.
Amazing — but not.
Imagine showing up for a new job late — 47 times in just 10 months. Would your employer be justified in firing you? Or, as a business owner with employees, would you be justified in firing a compulsively late employee — a new employee, at that? The answer in both scenarios is a resounding YES.
Oh, wait— “racial justice.” Never mind.
Has it occurred to you that this case is not dissimilar to lowering or eliminating requirements for high school graduation? Me, too. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown in 2021 ordered the complete elimination of math, reading, and writing minimum proficiency standards for high school graduation. Were any students afforded educational justice by reducing their ability to compete on a collegiate level? Again, nada.
The Bottom Line
These are real questions, here, none of which can be properly addressed by what we used to call “the soft bigotry of low expectations” — which ultimately hurts those it claims to help.
And the really ugly non-secret secret? Democrat lawmakers know everything I wrote is true, yet they don’t give a damn. Why? (See: ballot boxes.)
And the “racial justice” band plays on.
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Well the first sexist thing I thought to check out was, is she hot? Found pictures here:
https://www.hardfitness.com/competitions/nats2011/npcfigure/figuree/robynneurope/twopiece/index.html (https://www.hardfitness.com/competitions/nats2011/npcfigure/figuree/robynneurope/twopiece/index.html)
Definitely buffed. Guys looking to score some of that $11.25 million need to be careful she doesn't catch on and break them in two.
Edit to add: just realized those photos are from 2011.
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definitely not hot.
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How did they fire her for being black when they had hired her in the first place? Did she identify as white when she was hired?
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We are headed for the new Dark Ages in this upside down world.
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We are headed for the new Dark Ages in this upside down world.
Complete with feudal lords. Only this time it will be much worse. How do you overcome it when they have far reaching technology and can do mass surveillance, social credit scores, freeze your assets, restrict travel, etc.
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Complete with feudal lords. Only this time it will be much worse. How do you overcome it when they have far reaching technology and can do mass surveillance, social credit scores, freeze your assets, restrict travel, etc.
They need to be dealt with in the most extreme way. And it has to be very scary for them. Fear vs Greed. Fear wins every time.
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Nice to know you guys were on the jury and have access to all the relevant facts as you render your verdict.
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Nice to know you guys were on the jury and have access to all the relevant facts as you render your verdict.
OK, I'll bite.
Please tell us those relevant "facts" as to why an employee who was chronically late to show up to work should be awared millions for failure to perform a job.
Oh, and would your university tolerate you if you had an attendance problem such as this lady?
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Nice to know you guys were on the jury and have access to all the relevant facts as you render your verdict.
Fair enough, but I just served on a jury and found out how much the “current thing” infects them and causes bias.
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Nice to know you guys were on the jury and have access to all the relevant facts as you render your verdict.
Hahahahahahahaha….
What a maroon!
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A puerile insult from Number 7. Color me surprised.
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A puerile insult from Number 7. Color me surprised.
A content free drive by posting by the perfesser..........Color me surprised.
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Do people expect that employers shouldn't terminate an employee who is habitually late?
If so, why?
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A puerile insult from Number 7. Color me surprised.
Hahahahahahaha…
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Do people expect that employers shouldn't terminate an employee who is habitually late?
If so, why?
Well, EMPLOYEES certainly feel that way, and there are way more employees than employers.
But even employees feel that OTHER employees shouldn't be allowed to be late.
Also, it depends on the culture of the company. I have had employees that were consistently late, but when the arrived they did more work than most any other employee, so I tolerated them, and even enjoyed having them. When OTHER employees complained, I was more apt to fire them than the person that was late. But of course, that opens of all sorts of "fair labor" and discrimination suits.
On the other hand, I have had employees that I would have fired after just a few late arrivals.
Employers should be allowed to hire or fire anyone they want, just as any employee is allowed to accept or quit a job.
They should be allowed to pay them whatever amount they feel the person is worth (get rid of minimum wage and salary comparisons with other employees).
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We are headed for the new Dark Ages in this upside down world.
I tend to see a glimmer of optimism in the social wars.
Gay men in particular are coming out rejecting the trans movement, particularly with respect to grooming children.
San Francisco voters recalled a Soros-funded DA and kicked him out of office before the end of his first term. In San Francisco!
Ron DeSantis incurred slings and arrows in fighting the social wars, but still got a 6 week abortion ban passed in the state.
Conservatives have been nothing short of successful in rejecting the tranny lobby in killing Bud Light, and severely damaging Target. When has that ever happened before?
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I tend to see a glimmer of optimism in the social wars.
Gay men in particular are coming out rejecting the trans movement, particularly with respect to grooming children.
San Francisco voters recalled a Soros-funded DA and kicked him out of office before the end of his first term. In San Francisco!
Ron DeSantis incurred slings and arrows in fighting the social wars, but still got a 6 week abortion ban passed in the state.
Conservatives have been nothing short of successful in rejecting the tranny lobby in killing Bud Light, and severely damaging Target. When has that ever happened before?
I've been thinking the same thing but afraid to say it and jinx the push back against leftist insanity!
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I tend to see a glimmer of optimism in the social wars.
Gay men in particular are coming out rejecting the trans movement, particularly with respect to grooming children.
San Francisco voters recalled a Soros-funded DA and kicked him out of office before the end of his first term. In San Francisco!
Ron DeSantis incurred slings and arrows in fighting the social wars, but still got a 6 week abortion ban passed in the state.
Conservatives have been nothing short of successful in rejecting the tranny lobby in killing Bud Light, and severely damaging Target. When has that ever happened before?
I’ve heard Jordan Peterson say he thinks we have passed the peak of the trans craziness and the pushback is growing. The UK and a couple other European countries are initiating various restrictions on transitioning, especially among minors, and addressing the problem of trans in women’s sports. It is happening in some states in the U.S., laws being passed protecting minors, and the more public awareness grows about the long term damage being done by early hormone therapy and surgery, this trend should continue.
However we still have a very strong left wing censorship machine keeping this information from getting out. Thank God for Elon Musk and the ONE mainstream platform that he has now hosted one of the strongest most comprehensive reports on it. Even he had to fight his own staff who still were obstructing his free speech mandate.
I hope it’s true the turnaround has begun but it will be too late for a whole generation of children who have been and are still being damaged, if not directly by transitioning then by being overly sexualized and confused in school by this sick gender ideology cult.