posted on the smoking gun: We’ve carefully read the Hooters employee handbook and it does not address what a manager is supposed to do when a corporate trainer tells waitresses they could earn extra money by sexually servicing customers.

In a federal lawsuit, Jarman Gray, a former assistant manager of an Alabama Hooters, charges that he was fired last year after complaining about comments made to employees by a female “visiting training manager.” In his April 7 U.S. District Court complaint, the 31-year-old Gray claims that a trainer named Cat told waitresses that they were “the ones with the pussys and you are in control because of that.”

Then she reportedly added, “If you need the extra money, go ahead and suck a dick or fuck a customer if the money is right.” Gray contends that offended waitresses approached him and “asked if he could resolve this problem and correct Cat’s offensive behavior.”

But after he called the Hooters corporate office to complain about the trainer’s remarks, Gray said he was canned by the owner of the Auburn franchise where he worked. Gray, who is suing for sexual harassment and retaliation, charges that franchisee Darrell Spikes told him, “I’m top dog, you don’t call corporate. You no longer have a job here.”

Gray, who worked at Hooters for about nine months, filed his complaint days after receiving a “right to sue” letter from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In mid-2005, Gray filed a complaint with the EEOC alleging that he had been terminated “in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment in the workplace.”