• grue@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Let’s not overlook yet another insidious part of it:

    Home Bargains eventually issued him an apology and a £100 voucher as a “gesture of goodwill without admission”, on the condition that the details of the incident remain confidential. Clayton declined: “I just thought: ‘Really, you’re trying to buy my silence?’”

    • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      Trying to buy his silence is insulting enough, but they offer a pitiful amount and can’t even be bothered to offer actual currency?

    • MadhuGururajan@programming.dev
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      Not only are they trying to buy his silence, they think they can do it so cheaply. Shows their own world view where they think people will fall over each other trying to sell their rights for a hundred.

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      At least the deacon who sexually harassed me and tried to buy my silence that time wrote a three or four hundred dollar check, which I promptly cashed, and told the whole neighborhood.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      and its only 100$ instore credit. hope they can sue to expose them, and then you wonder where they are getting the biases from, select all non-whites as thieves.