Dear Canada
Filed under: Canadialand > Icky Icky PooYou know we love y'all, but….
THIS is unacceptable.
Let's do something about that!!!!
Posted: June 6, 2008 at 5:15 pm
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Dear CanadaFiled under: Canadialand > Icky Icky PooYou know we love y'all, but…. THIS is unacceptable. Let's do something about that!!!! Posted: June 6, 2008 at 5:15 pm
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My boyfriend lost his job becsause he HAS cancer!!!
1st
Ok so explain why Canada is at fault for this waitress losing her job? Seems to me it would be the restaurant's issue, not a nation…. Kinda a big country, you know?
I live in Canada and i cant believe that they did this to her!!!
How fucking LAME!!
I live in Canada–one news report said that the owner said it was "offensive" for a woman to have hair like that. I think he should be shut down–what do you suggest we do? All we can do is not go there, let him go out of business.
Dear Perez,
We love ya too, but don't generalize.
Re: BRi – Great point!!!
I live in Canada and it's unacceptable, but I'm sure she will get her job back like the woman who got fired from Tim Hortons for giving away a timbit did.
wow, i didnt even know about this. im a few hours away from owen sound…its kinda a hick place…but wow. this will definitley be on the news…im ashamed.
Believe it or not we have assholes in Canada too - that is absolutely ridiculous.
dont worry perez, us canadians stand up for what we want…
like gay marriages, etc etc. we get what we want.
I love this website, but I think it's soo close-minded to make a comment like that about Canada. I'm sure it's happened in other places as well. I live in Canada and I don't think that what they did can be justified any way, shape or form.
It's not fair to put the entire country into that category.
Do something? Like what?
damn thats lame, not many people would sacrifice something like that for charity and the few people who do loose their jobs over it? what a jackass her boss must be….i bet it would be a different story if someone he knew was dealing with cancer and he appreciated her efforts to help raise money!
people should be able to have any stupid hair cut they want, just look at peroz.
btw, anyone who buys those clothes are a loser
That bullshit!! Boycott that restaurant!
FG…he needs a good lawyer.
:O
!1st
first…thats booty
A shitty thing, and wrong too….BUT it's not like the it's something that goes on in Canada all the time. So please don't generalize. Lame stuff happens in the grand ol' USA all the time too.
This is worse then the woman who got fired for giving a 10 cent timbit to a toddler in the donut shop(for the americans, its called a donut hole
Re: fg – fg - that is so sad - people have no conscience any more. Maybe its time to turn off our TVs and computers and spend a little time on ourselves - the human race is beginning to disgust me.
I heard about this today, it is totally unacceptable! Getting fired for doing something for charity… i bet the guy is gonna go out of business now, and it serves him right!
I live in Canada, and was absolutely disgusted when I read this story. I have not heard frmo anyone who agrees with the decision.
uh…what did Canada do wrong again?
This is terrible…blame the restaurant!
watch her get a better job!
:)
im a server in calgary alberta and this is JUST ludicris! my manager today told me that he would never fire someone for shaving their hair. What this boils down to is discrimination. In the calgary sun the manager said that hair and everything has to be at respectable lengths, hes pretty much saying to this poor lady is taht yeeeah your too ugly to work here. Pure discrimanation. and I agree with BRi. Canada is not at fault. this is simply a discrimanatory person who is DEFINATLY in the wrong here.
Wow, that is horrible that they fired her!! For doing something to charity??
This sucks! I hope they go out of business and she gets a better job.
Whoa lets not blame the whole country here! I would bet the next newspaper article will be diffrent becuase the public will fry the restaurant owner!
1st !
ONE BAD THING HAPPENS IN CANADA AND CANADA IS BAD?
LOOK AT YOUR RACISM, & YOUR POVERTY IN AMERICA
HOW ABOUT THE WAR IN IRAQ, YOU'RE ALL TERRORISTS FOR SUPPORTING BUSH
As the employer stated, it was an employee-employer issue. This has absolutely nothing to do with Canada as a nation. I, being from Canada, totally disagree with what happened to this waitress and find it disgraceful, and as you may find so will any other Canadian(one with a brain and a heart that is!!).
Peace
I can't believe that this would happen in Canada. At the same time you can't blame 33 million people for one asshole boss!
I dont understand why this happened at all… and even more shocking is that it took place in Owen Sound. They should be firing people for the mullets there not shaved heads for cancer
Lets not blame Canada for this. it's the fault of one restaurant owner.
Are you seriously saying, what they did, reflects every Canadian?
I am Canadian, and this is offensive.
It is sad by the way
we are all just as upset - it was prominent in the news today and is very unacceptable. BUT as Bri said - one company does not make a nation!!! I think it speaks volumes that this one incident in Canada has received so much press from CANADIANS - I'm sure there are many similar incidents around the world that we never hear of.
Wow. This is so ridiculous. I send my regards to that woman.
That is crazy! Hopefully my home country will help that poor lady and help the man who fired her get his priorities strightened out
I live in Ontario and am captain of a dragon boat team which raises money for breast cancer research and when I read this earlier this week I was appalled. However this is job specific not the whole of Canada Perez. The thing that gets me is why would she have to tell her boss anything, what if she was diagnosed with cancer and had to undergo chemo, would she ask her boss if she could start lossing her hair. NO, he needs to apologize and give her job back and make a sizable donation in her name to Cops for Cancer for his grievance against her.
Yes Perez, it does seem pretty logical to slander an entire country because of the ignorance of one establishment!
PEREZ- I completely agree with you… BUT… I am from Canada, Owen Sound actually and this is not a reflection on CANADA, it's a refelction of a couple ignorant restaurant owners. Please, all you are doing here is furthering Americans stereotypes of Canadians, you're making it seem like all Canadians feel this way… WAY TO GO.
Last week it was a woman losing her job at Tim Hortons for giving a baby a Timbit (without paying for it). Now, it's the woman shaving her head. What next? Come on Canadian Media…. Go after the Tories and their Election Scandal, instead of giving us this "wag the dog".
Re: BRi – Nicely worded
Yep that's retarded, just like the woman who got fired from Tim Hortons for giving a baby a free timbit.
BUT… people,
NOT ALL OF CANADA IS LIKE THIS!!! Don't blame this on a country Perez, it's isolated incidents involving jackass management!
Perez, I'm Canadian.. Live only hours away from Owen Sound, and it has nothing to do our fine country. Stop generalizing an entire nation because one person that lives in a very small city here, made an 'asshole' move.
You're just as fucking bad. You've just lost a reader.
Re: Penny – I know what you mean…..I'm pretty disgusted myself!!
Screw you Perez,
Canada rocks
maybe she just sucked at her job and they needed an excuse to fire her
I shaved my head in support of my sister having cancer, and the same typs of thing happened, my employeer asked me to take some 'time off' for my hair to grow, or to get a wig!
Needless to say I called h.r and got it dealt with no wig or time off for me
I agree with BRi. It's not the nation's issue, it's the restaurants. That could happen anywhere in the world. Don't blame it on Canada.
It's sad when an employee thinks that they can harm the hand that feeds them and then play it off in the media as a misunderstanding or victimization.
Ridiculous. People are so prejudice. She should not have lost her job. Once again, "Can we all just get along?" ………. "We Got To Live Together" ~ Jimi Hendrix
He wasn't blaming EVERY Canadian, it was a generalized comment.. I am Canadian too so I have every right to say CALM DOWN to you all. Put your anger towards the owner, not Perez. I say the restaurant should be BOYCOTTED. Also EVERY employee there should shave their heads in protest for their fellow worker.. what is the owner gonna do? FIRE ALL OF THEM???
I WANT to know the name of that restaurant so i will NEVER go there!
im from canada, and this is just… wow. bad. horrible.. he's going to be put out of business though, and should be. no one will eat there now. but… wow. im shocked.
Re: D. –
To me Owen Sound has always been the mullet capital of the WORLD!
Canada is not to blame, the owner is.
She'll easily get her job back, it's against the law to fire someone for a stupid reason like that. I bet she'll even get job offers way better than the one she had before.
I am from a town very close to Owen Sound and this is the first time I've ever heard of anything like this in our area. I agree it is completely unacceptable and I will never be eating in that restaurant again.
Come on Prez, you cannot blame this on a whole country!! I bet this shit happens in the states too and I find it very offensive that you blame this situation on Canada and not the douche bag restaurant owner.
Also if you were properly informed of the whole story I doubt you would be saying 'shame on Canada'. This woman actually has the option to file a human rights case against her former employer and she has chosen NOT TO because she just wants to move on and really wanted to bring light to issues such as these.
i dont really like how you call the whole country out on this though. we're not all douches, just because he is. are you proud of EVERYONE in the u.s.?
I think this is one of the first bad things I've heard happen in Canada, ever! Really though, this is horrible. Would they fire a man for shaving his head, for any reason? Anything that helps cancer or any disease should be greatly applauded. This really is a horrid story, the owner should be put out of business, he's a disgrace to society.
I always know the Ontarian where stupid i got my proof now…lol from a Quebecker
Yea well - not as stupid as the entire American public supporting whatshisface. Him and his people will not help the US. And here minor news in Canada hits your site….stupid but it happens everywhere and this case is nothing compared to what is happening everything around the world with worse worse worse and double worse issues.
Plus, everything hitting Tim Hortons makes the news in Canada these days. They should start hitting the news on walmart, zellars, country style and every place else for that matter. I hear of incidents all the time. Guess just depends what people wanna make hype….
Still the only thing I would contribute is the second grade a food stuff Tim's serves. Yuck. But that's my only complaint.
PS ~ WE love you Canada. This is obviously an isolated case…
Wow that's one of the most disgusting things i have ever heard. That man needs to be taken out and beat with a bat.
Technically, the restaurant laid her off for the summer and she's decided to not return to work after that period. I don't agree with what's been doing but that wouldn't happen in most spots in canada for the record. Clearly you've never met most of the assholes that actually live in ontario. As shocked as I am, I wasn't surprised to hear that it happened in ontario.
and to Amy the woman who got fired from tim's actually got her job back once headoffice found out.
ahhh
That's horrible!
I live in Canada, and I can't believe it.
At least I'm on the opposite side of the country from where it happened. : ) : ) : )
What do you expect its Ontario,there a bunch of hard asses out there,Love from BC
I also don't see how this is Canada's fault. It's the restaurants fault. American's don't like it when other nations judge them based on George Bush …are you not doing something similar?
She didn't such a nice and thoughtless thing (not a crazy Brittney thing) and this is what happended to her? They SUCK!!!
Oh, jeez. Perez, it's not the whole of Canada that is doing it. It's one restaurant i