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Demovictory9

(32,456 posts)
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 07:52 PM Oct 2018

'Keep Your Legs Open': A Restaurant Owner Tells an Employee After Firing Her

"On Tuesday evening, I was contacted to work a double shift at Terry's Turf Club where I have been happily employed since January. Halfway through my shift, Terry came up to me and fired me, without warning and said to me "you'll be fine, just keep your legs open."

When she was trying to depart, she said Carter would not leave her alone.

"I walked to gather my belongings up a flight of stairs," she recalled. "Terry followed me. He said, "I'll miss that a**" as he was behind me on the stairs. At that point I got my phone out and started recording him because I was extremely uncomfortable."

Reid went on to explain, "The video I took was over 3 minutes long where I was asking for some sort of explanation as to why I was fired. Terry refused to give me any explanation other than 'it's just not working out.' He then, again, told me 'I don't have to explain anything to you, keep your legs open' with a smile on his face.'

In the video Reid posted, Carter again says "Keep your legs open."

The young waitress pleaded to the readers, "Please do not give your business to Terry's Turf Club on Eastern Avenue in Cincinnati, OH. Please share this so that people know the type of person the owner is."

https://www.diversityinc.com/terry-carter-restaurant-sexist?utm_source=WhatCounts&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=wc-ip%201010

The burger joint is infamous for gaining rave reviews, but that has changed. Since the post was made public, the restaurant's Facebook page has been saturated with one-star reviews and Yelp has temporarily disabled their review site because of this incident.

"I can't believe he was dumb enough to say this on film," Donyetta Bailey, a local employment attorney, told WKRC, after she reviewed the video.

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'Keep Your Legs Open': A Restaurant Owner Tells an Employee After Firing Her (Original Post) Demovictory9 Oct 2018 OP
She needs to find a lawyer lapfog_1 Oct 2018 #1
Terry cannot be fired. He owns the place. jmowreader Oct 2018 #4
Ah, even better, he can be bankrupted. - n/t lapfog_1 Oct 2018 #5
Or homegirl Oct 2018 #15
Don't know the laws in Ohio SCantiGOP Oct 2018 #6
That's not quite true More_Cowbell Oct 2018 #18
Sue Terry Carter now !!!!!! trueblue2007 Oct 2018 #2
Remember, men who do this are pigs! And should be reported. Do women in the Kajun Gal Oct 2018 #3
Our Esteemed First Lady (C---) has advised all women to have proof when they make allegations. fierywoman Oct 2018 #12
Pigs are much nobler and intelligent creatures than that vile waste of oxygen. catbyte Oct 2018 #17
+1 CrispyQ Oct 2018 #21
Sexual harrassment is now okay, just as it's okay to report black people for being in public spaces. Lonestarblue Oct 2018 #7
Sounds exactly like the 1960s Lucca2 Oct 2018 #8
Hard to believe there was no prior incident that caused this FakeNoose Oct 2018 #9
Terry should sue trump for being a bad example! Ilsa Oct 2018 #10
"It's Obama's fault that his term ran out!" fierywoman Oct 2018 #13
LOL. Ilsa Oct 2018 #14
I wish Yelp wouldn't shut down the reviews of these assholes ProudLib72 Oct 2018 #11
Ugh, what a creep. She needs to sue the shit out of him. I'm glad she started recording catbyte Oct 2018 #16
His facebook page is getting blown apart, only one person defending him - "John Smith" groundloop Oct 2018 #19
Just for kicks canetoad Oct 2018 #20
I can't get the video to work for me. cwydro Oct 2018 #22

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)
1. She needs to find a lawyer
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 07:56 PM
Oct 2018

she has a $100K to $1M wrongful termination and sexual harassment lawsuit... might take a year or so, but if she can't afford to wait and they can't afford the negativity, she might be able to settle for $250K in the next few weeks...

Terry will be fired for cause.

SCantiGOP

(13,871 posts)
6. Don't know the laws in Ohio
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:25 PM
Oct 2018

But in about half the states we have “employment at will,” which means you can be fired at any time for any or no reason, so there is no such thing as wrongful termination.
On the other hand, the sexual harassment could yield a lawsuit, and I’m sure any good tort lawyer would love taking a case with these facts - on tape - before a jury.

More_Cowbell

(2,191 posts)
18. That's not quite true
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:53 PM
Oct 2018

Every state but Montana is "at will."

"At will" employees can be fired for no reason, but they can't be fired for an illegal reason. (So employers are better off saying nothing). She might have a claim in this case.

 

Kajun Gal

(1,907 posts)
3. Remember, men who do this are pigs! And should be reported. Do women in the
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 07:58 PM
Oct 2018

workplace need to carry recorders now? Tape all interactions with pigs? Dunno.

fierywoman

(7,683 posts)
12. Our Esteemed First Lady (C---) has advised all women to have proof when they make allegations.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:53 PM
Oct 2018

So record on!

CrispyQ

(36,470 posts)
21. +1
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 09:50 AM
Oct 2018

They are wonderful creatures! IMO when someone calls someone a pig, it's the pig that's been insulted.

Lonestarblue

(9,995 posts)
7. Sexual harrassment is now okay, just as it's okay to report black people for being in public spaces.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:45 PM
Oct 2018

Now that Kavanaugh has been confirmed, sexual assault and attempted rape can come out in the open. And of course Trump got away with sexual assault for years. Republicans have made sure that it will not be taken seriously, so the MAGA jerks are getting more brazen (and stupid).

Lucca2

(63 posts)
8. Sounds exactly like the 1960s
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:48 PM
Oct 2018

I am so damn mad at the repeating cycle of woman-hating. I grew up hearing this harassment all through my growing up years. It always affected me and the way I interpreted being a female. There was always a leering, nasty quality to these interactions. I have a 16 year old granddaughter and I do not want her to feel as I did.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
9. Hard to believe there was no prior incident that caused this
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:48 PM
Oct 2018

I would have guessed maybe he came onto her and got shut down, or something equally nasty.
Looks like Terry's Turf Club will be out of business soon. Of course it's going to be all "her" fault too.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
10. Terry should sue trump for being a bad example!
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:49 PM
Oct 2018
"I never would have been so nasty if Obama or Clinton was president!"

I hope Ms Reid owns the restaurant soon.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
14. LOL.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:16 PM
Oct 2018
I heard a rightwinger blame the hurricane on witches today. These people cannot make sense of anything.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
11. I wish Yelp wouldn't shut down the reviews of these assholes
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:53 PM
Oct 2018

Plenty of people use Yelp (me included), and we want to know about this kind of behavior. I would hate to find a five star place and have it turn out that the owner had just done something like this but the reviews exposing it were removed.

catbyte

(34,393 posts)
16. Ugh, what a creep. She needs to sue the shit out of him. I'm glad she started recording
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:44 PM
Oct 2018

his vile, despicable self, but, like the lawyer, I can't believe he was stupid enough to keep talking. Or maybe it was just arrogance and entitlement. After all, Kavanaugh & Thomas are sitting on SCOTUS.

groundloop

(11,519 posts)
19. His facebook page is getting blown apart, only one person defending him - "John Smith"
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 10:32 PM
Oct 2018

Er rather Terry was attempting to (lamely) defend himself.

I certainly hope Ms. Reid owns the place soon.


canetoad

(17,161 posts)
20. Just for kicks
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 11:28 PM
Oct 2018

I googled Terry's Turf Club. First result:

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/10/09/terrys-turf-club-faces-backlash-after-viral-post/1567347002/

Terry's Turf Club faces ratings backlash after viral post alleging misogyny

Terry's Turf Club is facing backlash after a female employee said the owner told her to "keep her legs open" after she was fired, according to a viral Facebook post.

In the post, made on Sunday afternoon, a female employee says she was fired from Terry's Turf Club in Linwood for no reason.

"Halfway through my shift, Terry came up to me and fired me, without warning and said to me “you’ll be fine, just keep your legs open.” I walked to gather my belonging up a flight of stairs, Terry followed me. He said, “I’ll miss that a**” as he was behind me on the stairs."

Included in the post is a video where the woman confronts owner Terry Carter, asking why she was fired. After a brief back and forth, he mutters something and she replies, "keep my legs open?"

"I didn't say that," he replies.

"You did, I just got it on camera," she says.

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Terry is on the left.

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