A New York City woman who thinks she has the "goods" to be a bikini-clad barmaid at an eatery says the managers at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone won't hire her because of her Latin accent.

That's too funny, but not to Melody Morales, because she is now suing the restaurant and bar for unspecified damages.

In North America a person has the right to sue restaurants, bars, hotels, department stores, or whomever they want to if they feel they have been discriminated against for any reason.

It's easy for somebody to file a claim of discrimination if he or she is creative enough to spin one out of something that never happened. One need only have a creative imagination to spin a discrimination suit.

Just ask Canadian stripper Kimberlee Ouwroulis, who claims she was fired from the New Locomotion strip club because of her age, and whose case is currently pending. She knows what I am talking about.

Morales is just looking for a big payday so she can sit back on her fat ass for a couple of more years while she figures out a better way of becoming the Latino version of Pamela Anderson. The last thing she wants to be forced into doing on her path to fame and fortune is have to work menial jobs, and suing somebody is a means to prevent that from happening.

Morales wasn't refused a job because of her accent, she was refused a job because she doesn't understand English, the proof of which is the fact that after being turned down the first time, she returned to HTZ fourteen more times before reality finally set in and she realized that she wasn't going to be offered a job.

Fifteen times she asked for a job, and all 15 times she was knocked back, which begs the question why did she keep going back to the eatery and asking for a job, does she not have good command of the English language either?

Morales should know that when it comes to workers in the hospitality industry, especially those workers in mostly English speaking venues, it helps to have more than just a "hot bod" when applying for a job.

Being able to understand and speak English is a good place for Morales to start.

I'm not buying into Morales' claim that she was denied a job because of her Latino accent.

I think she was refused a job because she doesn't understand English, I mean think about it, and she did ask HTZ management for a job 14 times before she decided to sue.

The woman is running a scam in my opinion.

There's another angle to this story, at least I think there is, and I don't think it has anything to do with her accent. I'm thinking that maybe she was having a sexual relationship with an HTZ manager, perhaps even the owner, and that that relationship has gone sour, and that her discrimination claim is nothing more than her way of getting payback for a wrong against her.

Maybe the person she might have been having that sexual relationship with kept promising her that he would give her a job, but never came through for Morales before their relationship headed south, and now she is being vindictive.

It's one theory as to why she is playing the "discrimination" card. A damn good one too.

Having worked in the hospitality industry myself for more than 20 years, I know the business a little, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Morales discrimination complaint stemmed from a sexual relationship with somebody who was in a position to give her a job.

Morales' lawsuit is going to be tossed faster than it took her to realize that she was never going to get a job at HTZ.

The other thing I am kind of wondering about is why Morales' story is even making headlines.

I'm thinking that Morales, knowing the kind headline making news discrimination complaints can be, is hoping by contacting the media about her story, or having her legal representative do it for her, she might be able to force HTZ's hand into making an out-of-court settlement. That's something I think that Canadian stripper I mentioned earlier tried to do when she agreed to sit down for an interview with a CBC journalist.

As far as I'm concerned, Melody Morales and Kimberlee Ouwroulis are as fake as the breasts on their chests, and I don't think either one of them has a snowball's chance in hell of winning their cases. Good on them for trying, but if either one of them is looking for a fast-track to fame and fortune, filing ridiculous inane discrimination complaints like the one's they have both filed isn't the smart way to go about it.