It's not the tea or the taste of pie that brings three women to a Los Fresnos restaurant.
They came together Monday afternoon to figure out their next course of action after they were suddenly let-go early in the morning from a health clinic called Los Fresnos Medicine along Highway 100.
"He would always tell me I was doing a good job," one woman said. "I never had a complaint from him or the manager."
Melida Perales was discharged as a student intern.
She, along with the other ladies, claimed their bosses retaliated against them.
Perales and "Jennifer", who was a receptionist at the clinic, said they filed a police report last Friday for "racism" and "harassment."
"That we needed to go back to Mexico... and for us to stop speaking Spanish," Perales said.
Maria Zamora worked in the billing department at the clinic for years before she was terminated.
She felt a list of work policies handed out, that she complained about for "discrimination," may have been her demise.
It outlined, timed toilet breaks that were limited to 3 minutes in the stalls, and timed lunch breaks for the "chubby" limited to 5 minutes to drink a "Slim-Fast."
"Skinny" people were allotted 30 minutes for lunch to "eat more."
"I didn't think it was a joke," Zamora said. "I took it serious... a lot of the girls there took it serious."
The Vice President and co-owner of the clinic, Jerry Barrett called the allegations ridiculous.
"Mr. Wolf... It's a joke...That's all the h*ll it is... It's a joke," Barrett said.
The so-called policies, he added, were never enforced and were never brought to his attention as the source of an official complaint.
So why were the four at-will employees terminated?
"Partly because of economic times and the State of Texas," Barrett replied.
And while some may see the group of ex-workers as "disgruntled," they see it as plain "unfair."
They're out-of-work because of an out-of-control workplace environment, according to them.
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