Today, a 300 lb woman caused a huge scene at the public pool where I work. She accused me of fatshaming and swore to sue me for discrimination. I asked her to cover up, as her 3x too small string bikini went against the pool’s dress code. I don’t make the rules, I just have to enforce them. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, at the hotel I work, I was at the pool folding towels. A girl comes in wearing a thong bikini bottom. Our rules prohibit thong swimsuits. When I pointed it out at her, she called me a “jealous fat bitch.” Turns out she left a one star review on Google, saying I was “rude” to her. I got written up. FML
Today, I saved a woman from drowning at a pool where I lifeguard, but when I got her out of the water she started screaming about sexual assault. Apparently I accidentally brushed her breasts when pulling her up and out of the water. She wants to sue me. FML
Today, as a supervisor at a water park, several clients came up to me and complained about a topless girl in our wave pool. I found the girl, called her out, and politely told her that she was not allowed in the pool without a top. "She" was a fat 15 year-old boy. FML
Today, I took the kids to the pool. I'm short and 20lbs overweight but they talked me into it and I put on a swimsuit for the first time in 10 years. As soon as we got there, a girl my height but a good 150lbs heavier said, "It's so nice to see another big girl in a two-piece!" FML
Today, someone at my workplace yelled at me and filed a complaint for staring at them too often. I'm a lifeguard. FML
Today, my friend thought it would be funny to post a sign at the deep end of the public swimming pool, saying, "This end topless only." When someone complained, he said that I did it, and I got banned from the pool for life. And fired, too - I was the lifeguard. FML
Today, a very large lady was sitting down and panting as she watched me stock the bottom shelves at my store. Apparently, being able to squat down and stand back up repeatedly means I'm mocking her, and she threatened to report me to corporate. FML
Today, I was verbally and physically attacked in a public pool, because I was swimming in what a grandma claimed was her part of the pool. Since I'm a very tolerant person, I calmly tried to talk some reason into the elderly lady. The lifeguard had to come to protect me. FML
Today, at work, an obese woman insisted she took a size 5 shoe, despite me measuring her at a size 11. Then when the 5 I politely fetched for her didn’t come close to fitting, she told the manager I was fatshaming her. Her feet were ham joints below cankles as thick as my thigh. She stank too. FML
Today, my mother-in-lawyer threatened to sue me unless I took my professional wedding photographs off Facebook, as she didn't like that they made her look fat. She is over 300 pounds. FML
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FrankHotpants 31
Bold of you to assume her weight though, but yeah I can see how that situation could be uncomfortable to have.
cacheson 42
It seems to me op was giving a rough visual estimate to paint a picture for the reader, as well as to connect the story to the woman’s complaint.
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FrankHotpants 31
Bold of you to assume her weight though, but yeah I can see how that situation could be uncomfortable to have.
geddafah kowdah deway 3
referring to her as "a 300 pound woman" leads me to believe that you did fatshame her -- and you've done it again here; your entire point could've been made by simply stating that her bikini was too small & didn't meet the pool's dress code
cacheson 42
It seems to me op was giving a rough visual estimate to paint a picture for the reader, as well as to connect the story to the woman’s complaint.
Watt Dou Cair 8
Right. Would saying "a 6ft woman" be offensive too? You're not shaming anyone for having acumen and it sounds like the chick really was overweight given her reaction.
jobekka 20
you can't choose how people react to you, but you choose how to react to people. try and brush it off, why should she matter.
Shzusuziq11 12
would you have complained about a thin woman in a string bikini? If not, then I think she was right.
Watt Dou Cair 8
He literally explained that it's his job