Woman Who Sued Boss For Mistaking XX In Email As Kisses Fined
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Court has ordered an IT manager to pay her boss £5000/ Ksh 857, 800 fine for misinterpreting work email sent to her.
Karina Gasparova a project IT manager at London based essDOCS IT firm, had sued her boss Alexander Goulandris for sexual harassment, discrimination and unfair dismissal over “sexual allures.”
Gasparova claim her boss’s superiority and richness made him use literal language in communication to get “sexual pleasure” from her.
In one email sent to her by the boss, Gasparova claimed Mr Alexander sent her a work file named “ajg” which according to her, the abbreviation meant “A Jumbo Genital”.
In the mail file, the boss had used abbreviation simples; “xx”, “yy” and “???” Which according to her; XX meant kisses.
“Can you please complete the following:
The solution us currently used by xx Agris companies and yy Barge lines in corn cargoes in south-north flows in the ???? waterways.
Also, can you remind me of what the balance of the rollout will be and the approx. timing.
Thanks” the email read.
Ms Gasparova, who represented herself before Employment Tribunal Court, argued that the ‘xx’ referred to kisses, ‘yy’ to sexual contact and ‘????’ a coded way of asking “when she would be ready” to engage in sexual acts.
For further defense, she claimed her boss at one time when she was picking up a mouse to work on some projects, he deliberately touched her hand as a literal gesture for love language.
During chatting, she also claimed her boss was used to alluring voice and also saying “have a nice evening” which she alleged a sexual alluring mode.
However, according to London Central Court, the Tribunal Court said Karina Gasparova was finding “sinister” motives behind the “innocuous” interactions with the boss and as the case, she was fined £5000 to pay her now, former boss.
Beside the fine, it’s reported Karina after submitting her grievances to court in 2021, April and later her case reviewed and rejected; she had no any option other than resigning from the the company.
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