A woman who was fired from her job as a receptionist after she refused to get coffee for the men in the office has lost her Title VII sexual harassment suit now that a federal judge has declared that there’s nothing sexist about requiring workers to serve coffee — even if those workers are always women.

“The act of getting coffee is not, by itself, a gender-specific act,” U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller wrote in Klopfenstein v. National Sales and Supply.

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