The Greatest Headline Of All Time
By Wyatt Earp | January 14, 2012
Are you ready for this one, because it is chock full of win . . . and moldable plastics.
“Woman Says Her Fake Penis Got Her Fired.”
So what, did it mouth of to her supervisor, taunt customers, or jump out and trip co-workers on the assembly line?
A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is suing a South Jersey-based maker of frozen treats and other snack foods, claiming that she was wrongfully fired because she wore a prosthetic penis to work.
Pauline Davis, 45, wore the device to the J&J Snack Foods plant in Moosic, Lackawanna County, while she contemplated a gender change, according to a federal civil-rights complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Scranton. She confided in several co-workers about the device, and someone told management, according to the complaint.
She subsequently was fired from her job as a packer/line inspector.
Davis is claiming her firing was discriminatory. Yeah, good luck with that. The money quote, however, is below the fold.
This, from Davis’ attorney:
Further, argued her Bucks County-based attorney, Lalena J. Turchi, her fake penis was concealed and “in no way interfered with her ability to do her job.” (H/T – Smite and LDIV)
Wow. I got nuthin’.
Topics: WTF? | 15 Comments »
Ok, I guess I have to be the one to ask: how does wearing a fake penis get you ready for transgender anything (at work)?
Rob – Maybe to check how tight your pants will be? (Scratches head.)
They should be about the same tighness at work as at home, right? I think maybe it is time for that killer asteroid….
Reminds me of the one about the cannery worker that stuck his wiener in the pickle slicer at work and got fired for it… the pickle slicer got fired too.
If I recall correctly, people in line for a sex change need to live as the other sex for some time, using the proper restroom, the right methods (standing, sitting, wiping, shaking, etc…) in order to acclimate yourself to what’s coming after the change.
I guess in this case, she was preparing for her addadicktomee.
Reminds me of the time my real penis got me fired.
I’ll tell her what they told me, keep it in your pants.
She might win.
I won’t say what I’m thinking.
What kind of frozen treats did she inspect?
My fake penis never…. oh never mind. I’ve said too much already.
Howdy Wyatt! I have to say this one is screwy as hell. I mean unless she was showing her fake penis off to her co-workers or something, I think she may have a right to complain about wrongful termination, although I don’t recall the Federal Anti-Discrimination Law saying anything about THINKING about being a Transgender being a protected class.
I just don’t see her how wearing a fake dick inside her pants would interfere with her job performance.
As a coalcracker, I resent this person daring to live up there.
Would a transgender at a snack food factory have to worry about…trans fat?
J&J?!?!?
the makers of . . . SuperPenisPretzels?!?!?
Maybe the unwanted revelation that a co-worker was wearing a fake penis was TMI, and one of the co-workers considered it sexual harrassment? Why would anyone reveal this information, unless it was to shock someone?