• Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    She will almost certainly find it very, very hard to prove the offence. Police and courts are usually reluctant to prosecute something on a ‘he said, she said’ basis. I can see why she’d not go down the police route with that, without even taking into account the massive power imbalance in terms of wealth / influence

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      11 months ago

      Regarding Canada, I do find this: https://globalnews.ca/content/8797002/can-you-get-fired-recording-conversations-work/

      So it seems 100% legal to record yourself even at work. Both audio and video? Which would make it rather easy to provide at least some proof (verbal abuse mostly, but if someone groped her at her desk then filming that might have worked too).

      She also wrote:

      I had co-workers come to me saying "I didn't like how you were treated, glad you got out." And only then did I realize it wasn't me.

      So that would mean there might be additional witnesses? I’m really hoping several of them actually come forward and talk about this then.

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        11 months ago

        Sounds like she got witch-hunted tbh. Management was unhappy with Linus hiring her without going through the proper channels and pushed her out.