Zambo wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:49 pm The judge said it was 'misplaced humour', and then ruled that it was sex discrimination. Calling a woman a bird isn't discriminating against anyone. He wasn't making an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people, on the grounds of race, sex, age, or disability. Some may call it demeaning, but it wasn't sexist. I suppose if her name was Robyn it would have been OK.
It's was just another roll over to satisfy the pretentious set. He had even stopped using the word, but that wasn't enough to stop the witch hunt.
She had also been made redundant, so this was quite obviously a malicious move to get her revenge.
I'm closing my account which I have had with Barclays since I was 16 in protest.
It's interesting the media focused on the section of her complaint about being bullied but not the primary part of the case which is Barclays refused to alter her hours to accommodate her illness, endometriosis. As that disease progresses it can result in the removal of the uterus.
Reading this case it appears her boss called her a number of things that she asked him not to because she found them sexist, when she complained he told her not to tell HR and then carried on doing it because he thought it funny. He then ignored her requests for them to accommodate her illness, whilst 'joking' with her.
I don't have daughters but I think if one worked for someone he referred to her as 'bird' rather than her name even after she'd repeatedly ask them not to I'd think at best they were being a dick at worst deliberately bullying her. If she also had a debilitating disease that he hand waved away whilst continuing to mock her in a way she asked him not to I think it would be fair to call him a sexist.