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In reply to the discussion: Bridget Kelly on Bridgegate: 'I Am Not Guilty' [View all]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I, once, was in a deposition in a sexual harassment case where the owner of a medium sized funeral home/crematory was accused of creating a (sexually) hostile work environment for his female employees. As the depo advanced I asked about a specific comment that he was alleged to have made ... "{Name of the Complainant} will do anything to get laid ... and I'm gonna help her!"
Of course, the Accused Owner denied making the comment, or anything like that comment ... No, it was not he did not recall making the comment, he "DID NOT, AND WOULD NEVER SAY ANYTHING LIKE THAT" ... He is a Christian and has a family, and a daughter the age of the accuser, dont'tcha know!
I produced, and played, a tape recording of him not making the comment, and asked was that his voice ... after a couple minutes pause, the accused owner stated: "Well ... yes ... but you have to understand ... 'Getting laid' is a term of art in this business, meaning: 'to be placed in a casket' ... there was nothing sexual about that comment." His attorney did not react; but, the stenographer (someone that we used probably a thousand times, over the years, and I had never seen her respond to anything she heard) ... just stopped typing and just looked at the accused.
The only response I could muster (because of the stenographer's reaction) was to say, "Okay." And then, I turned to the stenographer and asked her to read back the accused's response.
So yeah ... the email with her name on it COULD have meant something different to her and the person she was sending it to!