Agreed.
This incident happened a year ago and she was subsequently fired from her job, but yesterday:
It’s strange she would sue now.
Here is a July statement from the birdwatcher:
I assume she has realized how hard it is to find a job with those Google results.
Hell, one of my classmates went from high flyer on Wall Street to unemployable for nearly 20 years because googling his name shows that he blew the whistle on his boss and got him sent to prison.
Well if the U.S. were only a small fraction of how racist the BLM movement believes, then there still should be a huge number of employers who would have no problems hiring her.
Not big employers who have to worry about the backlash.
The vast majority of Back-the-Blue/Comply-or-Die loons I am personally acquainted with are small businessmen, real estate agents, car dealers, blue collar workers, non-physician medical practitioners (dentists, physical therapists, chiropractors) etc. Not captains of industry and finance. Well, captains of boats not ships.
She could get a job at some three person financial planning firm. Maybe specialize in Karen’s. But big financial firms aren’t going to want the grief, even if an individual hiring manager is sympathetic. Heck even if the CEO is sympathetic.
And the lawsuit will really help those odds. If she were poison then, now she’s (damn, no clever metaphors here).
I think she’s hoping that the company will pay her a few hundred grand to go away. I don’t think they can afford to do that publicly either. And if they have a confidential settlement that would be explosive if leaked.
This. Having worked in HR for years, it seems there is a cottage industry of nuisance lawsuits for “illegal” firing, with a sprinkle of discrimination if possible. Plaintiffs know that the companies will settle for modest amounts rather than fight it. But “a few hundred grand”? Not likely.
That’s funny, I worked in Legal Finance in a large company (50k + employees) for years (well 1.5 years). Most of the claims we settled seemed very meritorious. We may not have lost in court because the only potential corroborating witnesses were other employees who were intimidated into not testifying, but I don’t remember any claims that were totally groundless, both legally and factually. There may have been some that never made it into discussions that I was involved in (Finance only tracked cases where significant amounts were at stake)
Most of these cases were wrongful dismissal cases where either sexual or racial discrimination was being alleged. There was often a mad scramble on the business side (not legal) to destroy materials before the dreaded “preserve records” memo could be issued by Legal. HR seemed to be at cross purposes with Legal a lot and thought their #1 priority was “protect the company” but they often did it in a way that made the legal exposure worse and put the lawyers in a tight spot. We had a case where four employees were proven by video evidence to have perjured themselves (in depositions) to protect a manager who had relentlessly sexually harassed a coworker. They were just terrified of losing their jobs if they told the truth. Something that could have been settled for $50k blew up into a $600k settlement that took three years, but only because the plaintiff had a lawyer who wouldn’t give up. This was over 20 years ago so video was not ubiquitous and $500k was real money. The video didn’t show the actual harassment, but it did show that four other employees who swore they were not in the office at the time actually were there. In an all too typical outcome, the four employees were fired and the ass-grabbing manager they lied to protect us still there 20+ years later.
“It’s not the crime, it’s the cover up” is pretty much the life of a corporate Employment Law department.
Ah, a fun update right here, in which the poor, pitiful, put upon fraidy white woman says, and I quote:
I don’t know that as a woman alone in a park that I had another option.
That would be no other option than to call the police. Now the same article reports that she completed some psychoeducation and therapy sessions and that’s why the charges against her were dropped. Reading the entire article, it seems to me that she didn’t learn jack in those sessions and should have those charges reinstated. But, hey, what do I know? I’m not a lying bigot. You do you, Amy.
Here’s a story appropriate for this thread. (Interesting side note: the leading Republican candidate to replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California if the recall succeeds, who himself happens to be black, has said that these stories are “lies, all lies, lies lies lies.”)
“task force” (three mentions):
Did this s**t-head remember to remove his OnStar?
No, its still active
Ok, go to that parking lot and wait for him
Elder also says that the descendants of slave owners should have been compensated for their slaves having been freed.
Holy crap, what a regressive, opportunistic jerk. He’s spamming my email every single day (and presumably lots of other Californians) so he can pop his little self into the governor’s chair in case the recall works, with a very small percentage of the vote. Gotta give him credit for snatching an opportunity that was under his nose, because I’m sure he knows that there is no way he would win any normal statewide election.
The idiot* doesn’t seem to know what “reparations” means. He appears to want it to mean “restitution” (which is what would be called for IFF the Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation were to be successfully characterized as “theft”).
*but I’m being redundant. He is a Republican, after all.