The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #125438   Message #2777846
Posted By: Ruth Archer
01-Dec-09 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Sackings at the Tower
Subject: RE: BS: Sackings at the Tower
So, what - they should have been allowed to wreck her career instead? When they were the aggressors? How does that work?

I think you'll find that the Beefeaters in question have homes elsewhere as well as the apartment at the Tower for which they pay a peppercorn rent. They are not homeless. But if people bully other people in the workplace, why shouldn't they lose their jobs? What should the solution be, Lizzie? Should they have been allowed to bully her out of her job? Would that have been more fair because, on some bizarre level, they have more of a right to do that job than she does?

I can assure you she feels no victory. She has had a nightmare of a time for two years. She went from being full of optimism and enthusiasm for this job to wishing she'd never applied for it. She has said that, given her time again, she wouldn't do it. Does that sound triumphant to you? She's a lovely woman, who did not deserve this. What she does deserve - what ANY woman deserves - is to be allowed is to be allowed to get on with her job, without being harrassed because of her gender.