A London receptionist refused to wear heels and was dismissed from her job. Now she’s petitioning Parliament.-Washington Post

When Nicola Thorp showed up at PwC, a finance company in London, late last year, she was wearing flats — what she thought were smart, sensible shoes for her first day on the job as a receptionist.

But the 27-year-old temp worker was told by PwC that she would have to put on something a little taller. Specifically, footwear with 2- to 4-inch heels.

                                          "I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
                                           Even if you don't wear Louboutin."

Thorp refused, countering she’d have to spend the day on her feet. “I said ‘I just won’t be able to do that in heels’,” Thorp told BBC Radio London in an interview Wednesday. “I said ‘if you can give me a reason as to why wearing flats would impair me to do my job today, then fair enough’, but they couldn’t.”

                                           "I can see you-
                                            Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
                                            You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby"

When she pointed out that men wouldn’t be expected to do the same work in heels, she says her new colleagues laughed at her and dismissed her from work without pay.

Men are such cockroaches.