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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again.  Thanks for all the replies.  I think I will fly her out to stay with me for a while to calm down.

She is really upset about the "face doesn't fit" comment because she suffers from severe acne (just started Accutane recently), and is very self-conscious about it.  She seems to think that they fired her literally because of her face.  She once overheard the two women who were unkind to her talking about her skin, and now she's convinced that she was fired because she is "too ugly" and "no one wants to look at a face like mine."  It is probably good that I am in a different country because I would like to go find her supervisor and slap him.  The poor kid.  I wish they had just told her a reason, or at least not said anything about a "face" at all.[/quote]

I find that comment to be deeply, deeply disturbing and potentially discriminatory.  Consult an employment lawyer.  Not sure what the effect of whatever it is that she signed would be, though.  Lawyer up.[/quote]

As a PP noted above (with multiple links), [b]that phrase means that "not a good personality fit,"[/b] and has nothing to do with acne  Don't fuel the fire here.  Her niece got laid off because she wasn't a good personality fit.  It sucks, but it's not the end of the world.  She needs to focus on moving forward and finding something better, not obsess over it.[/quote]

Who says?  [b]The comment could mean she wasn't pretty enough.  The comment in and off itself is unclear and could mean any number of things.[/b]  
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Incorrect.  Please click on PP's links or just google it yourself.  It's a common phrase used by Brits/Australians/probably other commonwealth nations.  It means that the person is not a good personality fit. [/quote]

We're not in Britain or Australian.  And phrases that may be acceptable there are not necessarily acceptable here, especially when they can be construed as discriminatory in some way.[/quote]

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