Posted on 05/20/2021 7:30:48 PM PDT by simpson96
Have you ever felt left out at work? Well, a woman did and she went out of her way to sue her previous work company because of it.
According to sources, a receptionist by the name of Malgorzata Lewicka was not included in several office pizza orders at her job so she sued her work and won the lawsuit. This incident took place in a dealership in Watford, United Kingdom.
Lewicka says that her old job would ask their staff which takeaway food they would like to order every month, and Lewicka told the court that she was not asked what she would like to eat.
She says that "other employees were asked but she was not asked if she wanted to order food or participate." Lewicka added that this occurred after she had accused one of the staff members.
The court described her experience as a "campaign of victimization" and Malgorzata Lewicka won a $32,000 as a settlement.
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Hmmm. Well we had Lewinsky turn into a certain descriptive. Getting revenge on a former bunch of work colleagues could be a Lewicka.
Maybe they knew she would order anchovies and limburger on hers?
Good for her. I wonder how her new job search is going. Reminds me of a USPS worker who was being paid less than male workers with the same title. She went to court and won. The next day when she reported for work, she was asked for the first time to help unload the 150lbs mailbags from the mail trucks like her co-workers did.
She quit the next day.
I can’t imagine working around this type of person. I’d be too busy working to make conversation with her.
Haha. We need more good news like that.
Of what?
And was the accusation founded or unfounded?
If no one likes you then maybe it’s you.
Lewicka added that this occurred after she had accused one of the staff members.
i think i see the problem...
People sue for this nonsense?
Here’s an article with a bit more information...
A British woman who was deliberately left out of monthly free lunches at her workplace has been awarded more than $32,000 as part of a workplace discrimination suit.
Malgorzata Lewicka, a receptionist and service adviser at a Ford dealership in the U.K., says the problems started in 2018 after she filed formal complaints about her hours, pay, and gender discrimination. She eventually went to work at another branch of the dealership, but says she was ostracized, and while other staffers were treated to lunch on “pizza Friday” once each month, she was never asked for her order. She was eventually let go in 2019.
An employment judge ruled in Lewicka’s favor, saying, “We accept that the lunches may have been ad hoc and they were informal. However [Lewicka] gave clear evidence that at [the first job site] a manager went around the site taking lunch orders and that she was included. However, when she moved to [the second], she was not asked if she wanted to order or participate whereas other colleagues were. She could have been asked if she wanted to join in.”
The dealership says Lewicka was excluded because her shift ended at 1 p.m. and she was laid off because the company wanted to make the job full-time. The judge didn’t buy that, saying Lewicka was discriminated against for being a single mother with childcare commitments.
32K to get rid of her is a good deal.
I worked for the USPS for a short time after I got off of active duty. So, one morning around 0500, two supervisors took me to the loading dock and there was a mountain of bags with Christmas packages waiting to be loaded on to the conveyor belt. I detected a slight smirk on their faces. I got to work and loaded so much, so fast, that the people at the other end of the conveyor belt had to tell me to stop because they couldn’t keep up. HA! I showed them!
If you get into a rhythm and find the right position to pendulum from, you can really move a lot, fast.
I used brute force and lightning speed.
I also have been wronged.
I guess the defendant could appeal the decision.
They tried to send her an invitation, but no one could spell her name.
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