disgusting.
--- kat <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Now THIS makes me angry!
>
> From today's Times Online:
>
>
> Disabled woman ‘humiliated on a team-building trip’
>
> Yepoka Yeebo
>
> A disabled woman who was ordered to go ten-pin
> bowling with colleagues,
> even though she could not use a bowling ball, was
> jeered at and given
> the title “Mega Flops”, a tribunal was told
> yesterday.
>
> Sue Foss, 46, of Westfield, East Sussex, who has
> accused colleagues of
> sexual harassment, said constant bullying based on
> her disability left
> her depressed and ill.
>
> Ms Foss, who suffers from disabilities caused by the
> drug thalidomide,
> has three fingers on one hand, and one-inch fingers
> on the other.
>
> Ashford Employment Tribunal heard that Ms Foss, who
> is claiming damages
> for alleged sexual harassment, was told to go on the
> team-building
> exercise after she started working at Dore, a
> company in Sidcup that
> specialises in therapy for children with dyslexia,
> in September, 2006.
>
> Ms Foss, who has two children, said: “I explained
> that because of my
> disability I could not do this, but I was told that
> as a new manager I
> was expected to be there. I was told to get my tits
> out to distract the
> other team. I felt like a child using the ramp and
> so I bowled without
> it and acted the fool to try to cover my
> embarrassment.”
>
> She was given a rosette and a certificate, which she
> showed the court.
> It read: “This certifies that you have been awarded
> the title of Mega
> Flops.”
>
> Before a Christmas party she was told to wear a long
> dress to hide her
> legs but “make sure the puppies were on display”.
>
> “While we were sat round the table I was asked if I
> was a retired hooker
> and another colleague asked me ‘how much?’. They
> then started to try and
> throw pieces of bread at me. The goal was to get
> something down my
> cleavage and the table applauded if he did.
>
> “Instead of having fun I was miserable. Yet again, I
> was the brunt of
> all the jokes. I got back to the hotel and cried
> myself to sleep.”
>
> Ms Foss, who was earning £30,000 a year as a sales
> manager, said she was
> regularly humiliated. “I started off by accepting
> the jokes with a laugh
> and a smile, but as they went on they became more
> and more sexual and
> linked with my disability.
>
> “I became hurt and took them to heart and instead of
> forgetting about
> them I took them home with me and thought about
> them.”
>
> Giving evidence on behalf of Dore, Julie Roy, the
> financial director,
> said that she had been asked to carry out internal
> investigations into
> Ms Foss’s allegations, and could not find any
> evidence to support her
> claims.
>
> She said that Bob Clark, Ms Foss’s boss, was
> dismissed in August after
> it emerged he had been using his company mobile
> phone to send lewd
> messages. Ms Roy said he had a number of harassment
> claims against him.
>
> Ms Foss, who also has trouble walking, said that Mr
> Clark was
> responsible for planning a rollerskating trip. “I
> was on sick leave. But
> I had a call from my boss Bob Clark. He said he was
> disappointed I would
> not be going because he said he was looking forward
> to seeing me trying
> to roller-skate with my gammy leg and that then I
> would not be able to
> get away from him.”
>
> She said that she had tried to fit in and laugh off
> the slurs, but
> added: “It was more than I could bear. They were
> aware how hard I found
> it and how much pride I had to swallow, but they
> persisted in making a
> fool out of me. [The Christmas party] was the final
> straw for me and
> when I went back to work in January I just felt I
> couldn’t go on. I was
> driving to work in Sidcup and I got to a roundabout
> and just thought ‘I
> can’t do this’ and about-turned and drove home.”
>
> The hearing continues.
>
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