In my opinion, an employer has the right to hire and fire anyone they like, subject only to a contract drawn up between the two (and not a “social contract” imposed from outside). That means if a hospital wants to fire employees who smoke or do drugs… shrug. It’s their business. Americans have the right to freely associate with whoever they like… and to *not* associate with who they don’t like.

That said, the right to fire people on a whim doesn’t mean that it’s a right that *should* be exercised all the time. Take this case, for instance:

I am two big to fail: fired gal

In short: Lauren Odes claims she was fired from her job at a Manhattan lingerie store (in data entry, so it’s unclear how public she was)  just two days after being hired. The reason, she claims, is that she was “too hot” and that her breasts were too big. This would seem an odd reason to fire a woman from a lingerie store. Of course, this being Manhattan, her notion of “too hot” seems to include a whole lot of tan-in-a-can, makeup, chemical castration of her hair color, a good chance of advanced polymer technology and Odin only knows what all else. Her former employers point to a dress code that she violated. And if so…

A) Why did they hire her in the first place

B) Why didn’t she dress in the fashion she signed up for?

The story is odd enough, but the claim is that her “hotness” offended her conservative religious Jewish employers. Who, I guess, own a lingerie store. Her credibility, however, takes a nosedive when she retained the services of Gloria Allred to sue her employers of only a few days. She’s also an “aspiring reality show performer,” which is not exactly the gold-standard in dignified behavior.

Some stories are just jam-packed full of confusing FAIL, and this is one of ’em.