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----- Original Message ----
From: ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:17:45 PM
Subject: Re: Let's Shift Gears ....

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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