Posted on 02/03/2022 5:32:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
A female former banker has been awarded nearly £2.1 million ($2.8 million) damages for victimization and sex discrimination after she found a witch's hat on her desk.
The award, to Stacey Macken, 50, a former employee of the French investment bank BNP Paribas, is thought to be among the largest handed out at a UK employment tribunal.
Macken found a "large Halloween-style black witch's hat" in front of her computer after arriving at work one morning, according to evidence presented to and accepted by the court. Macken's former personal assistant told the court that the hat appeared overnight after male colleagues returned to the office drunk the prior evening. Upon finding the hat, Macken was said by her personal assistant to be visibly upset, the court heard.
Macken told the court she was subjected to disparaging comments from male colleagues. In her witness statement, she described how one of her bosses regularly dismissed her with the phrase "Not now Stacey." The phrase was used so regularly that it was picked up by other colleagues and appeared in group messages, according to an earlier ruling.
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Ridiculous.
I thought today there was nothing wrong with being a witch. It’s just another religion, no? :-P
So you can’t even call a c...er I mean a witch a witch anymore?
She sounds more like a Karen than a Stacey.
Not now, Stacey.
Jessie Smollett lives!
Maybe she was a witch?
Crazy eyes…
Witch House did she belong to?
V: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
P1: Are there? Well then tell us! (tell us)
V: Tell me... what do you do with witches?
P3: Burn’em! Burn them up! (burn burn burn)
V: What do you burn apart from witches?
P1: More witches! (P2 nudge P1)
(pause)
P3: Wood!
V: So, why do witches burn?
(long pause)
P2: Cuz they’re made of... wood?
V: Gooood.
(crowd congratulates P2)
V: So, how do we tell if she is made of wood?
P1: Build a bridge out of her!
V: Ahh, but can you not also make bridges out of stone?
P1: Oh yeah...
V: Does wood sink in water?
P1: No
P3: No. It floats!
P1: Let’s throw her into the bog! (yeah yeah ya!)
V: What also floats in water?
P1: Bread
P3: Apples
P2: Very small rocks
(V looks annoyed)
P1: Cider
P3: Grape gravy
P1: Cherries
P3: Mud
King: A Duck!
(all look and stare at king)
V: Exactly! So, logically...
P1(thinking): If she ways the same as a duck... she’s made of wood!
V: And therefore,
(pause & think)
P3: A witch! (P1: a witch)(P2: a witch)(all: a witch!)
Do not suffer a witch to live.
I would just find another job with people that value my experience, work performance, and insights.
HO HO
THE MATRIARCHY
HAS GOT TO GO
They furthermore commit brutal perpetuation of the stereotype that only women are witches and wear such hats.
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