clear to me how LM duties might be restored.
AM James Binks [JB] email is about contact with team until issue resolved.
LY There has been a misunderstanding by JB. What was your q again?
AM JB says you agreed not to contact team until resolved.
LY I wasn't given a choice.
LY I was told this, because complaint made.
AM You had asked to be removed from team.
LY But to go with KB for support I had asked for. I was just removed - very isolating and upsetting.
AM [to docs] Reads c Lauren feeling she was being punished and EDI manager in name only
AM [reads c LY asking to work with KB. Jo said no post available. LY said post could be found under reasonable adjustments. Could be suspended - Jane (union rep) and Jo agreed this would not be appropriate]
LY [reads her words from doc]
J Just wait for the question to answer
AM Suggestion of suspension came from you and not accepted
LY Yes
AM Jo says better for LY to keep separate until resolved to help. Supportive.
LY Yes, that was a change. She seemed supportive and it was the first time I got to express myself. But on 6 Feb meeting with Jo
LY Jo had said had to shut down conversation.
LY They were talking about me in the office, not nice for me.
AM Jo said you could use work time to prepare for meeting
LY Yes
AM You wanted to be removed from team?
LY I didn't know what complaints were. I was working from
home by interactions with team were good and helping me. I was sharing knowledge. But unspecified complaints and being talked about by the team - and my mental health had hit floor. We are two weeks away from my suicide attempt
AM In Feb another ix meeting. Do you want a break?
J [Offers break when/if wanted, and tissues.]
LY I'll push on.
J AM needs to ask qs. We'll take it carefully
AM 16 Feb invite to ix meeting. You say Sarah didn't tell me which GalwayGirl tweets are being investigated.
LY This was the first time I was told
AM Council didn't know
GG was your account at this time.
LY That's what they said. They also said I'd told team members it was my account.
AM You complain about this and say would treating GG as gross misconduct is act of discrimination.
LY I didn't know what tweets were until nearly a year later
LY Are you asking me what I knew then or now?
AM You says treating tweets as something which could be gross misconduct is discriminatory and they are not of a level for this.
LY Yes
AM Had you not been unwell, this would have been given to you at the meeting.
LY Sarah refused to give me info in advance of meeting. Said wouldn't send tweets cos offensive and was telling me I was going to be sacked. Dark days for me and pushed me over the edge. [difficult to hear LY at times now] Felt like a coordinated attack and took me over edge on 22 Feb
AM I can go through tweets in submissions not now.
J [talking c relevance of tweets]
AM These were not the tweets that were in play at the end. These were collected in earlier stages of ix and didn't get past Sarah's report. Sarah concentrated on a small number of tweets.
AM One of your complaints is that there had been an analysis of your LY and GG accounts, to ascertain if it was your account. Email from Nick MacMillan c ix around GG accounts. Couldn't access GG cos account taken down. Reversed Google search to see if personal picture.
AM You found this upsetting - c photo of Trevi fountain discussed by NM - as you'd been in Rome shortly after your father's death.
LY Very upset by them identifying me like this - this was in my mind - had letter from Sarah c how they were trying to identify me and it was by using my dad. He was my dad! I was in Rome because I went after he died, somewhere where my faith could support me. My complaint is how horribly twisted it was to use my grief.
J ?
LY I'm okay, thank you.
AM Not trying to minimise your distress. Would like to show you the
pictures of the Trevi fountain - nothing in photos to imply they were sensitive.