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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Eyes sort of give it away but have to dunk her to make sure.😎
This sounds like a complicated process to figure out if someone is a witch or not, but I take your word for it if you say so.
There are some women with a good sense of humor. They would have made some kind of sarcastic remark, pushed the Witch Hat out of the way and got to work. Sit down, turn your modem on, and get busy. Talk to HR if it becomes too much. Examine your choices.
Don’t give that sneaky person the gloating satisfaction of watching you crumble over this sophomoric gag. Maybe the gags were relentless and laced with disrespect. I wasn’t there.
NOW Stacey!😎
Dang, let me in on some of that easy money.
$2.8 million to get rid of a witch sounds like pretty good value.
the workplace was much different before wimmins ...
I doubt the things she is alleging came out of thin air, i.e. that she did nothing to bring on any of the slings and arrows.
I bet she put it there herself.
Ok, Samantha.
Oh, the horror!
So a court listened to the evidence and found that she was wronged.
Now primarily male Freepers attack her, the victim, not the evil doers.
Usually this anti-female stuff comes out on Friday and Saturday nights.
To be fair, she did turn me into a newt, though I did get better
she was wronged!!! can’t take a friggin’ joke ... they’ve ruined the workplace ... no wonder the world’s so screwed up ...
Thanks for pointing that out.
The hat was just the tip of the iceberg. The harassment must have been pretty bad to support an award of this size.
Lucky you.
Salamander is stuck.
BTW, at the nully nest we call the channel 2 weather forecaster "The Weather Witch"...
Talk about winning the lawsuit lottery! Sure beats actually having to work for it.
When I turned 45 (28 years ago) I found 45 black balloons tied to my work station with notes about by age. The other pharmacists did this to me. I thought it was funny as hell. I just went to work as normal.
There are ways of telling if she is a witch.......
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