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Falsely accusations sexual harassment

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2pinkrose · 09/07/2022 05:02

Hi everyone,

My husband works for retail. 9 months in this job as a Team Leader of a clothing company in UK.

Literally all (about 8) female colleagues have accused my husband of sexual harassment. This is 100% false.

Ever since my husband joined this job he never like his team. He always used to come home complaining about his work to me that the sales representative are lazy and have negative attitude towards their work.

The store manager and the team leader have been really unsupportive.

My husband did flag many times to the store manager that the team is chilling in the stockroom but not any great outcome from it.

Last Friday my husband called in sick and the store manager was so angry. He messaged my husband to come work for half his shift to close the store as there is no one else. My husband msged back that he is not fit to come to work. So that Friday the store manager end up closing the store. This really annoyed the store manager as my husband's sickness ruined his dinner plan.

Monday my husband returned back to work and he was handed the suspension letter from HR.

My husband came home and handed me the letter. I was really really mad at his workplace for giving my husband such grief.

Today my husband had his meeting with HR so he can give his side of story. One word that he used in his side of story "uncomfortable" that the other team leader used to feel uncomfortable towards my husband. HR might use this against my husband. My husband did say the reason why the other team leader felt uncomfortable with my husband - because my husband used make a lot of the sales and that used to make the other team leader jealous and really bothered her.

HR later send my husband another meeting request via email and in this meeting my husband could face disciplinery and attached the team leader's and one of sales representative statement.

My husband showed their statement to me. I read it. Their statement had some dirty things. All lies about my husband.

So far apart of the females colleagues statement HR have no other evidence against my husband yet my husband does have proof when he messaged the store manager that the sales representative are not doing their work and the store manager should have a word with them.

Please can someone tell me what can we do to proof that all these are false allegation?? All statement are false, lies, fabricated

OP posts:
madasawethen · 09/07/2022 18:48

OP just because he is lovely to you, doesn't mean he isn't a predatory sex pest.

All throughout history have been men who have been lovely to their wife or mum and did heinous crimes to others.

8 accusations. It is mostly certainly true.

Floraanddougal · 09/07/2022 18:52

MrsTerryPratchett · 09/07/2022 18:09

People say Islam is sexist because the Koran states that two women's word is worth one man's. Turns out that the Western world thinks it's 8 and counting.

Funny, since the prevalence of men groping, harassing and lying is so incredibly high. Even knowing how women are harassed so much, abused so much, the first thought is always, 'how can we twist ourselves in knots to see the man as blameless?'.

It's bizarre to me.

Very few people are saying that or supporting the op. And it seems clear the ops first language isn’t English, so no one knows what her culture is.

and there are women out there who would rather pretend and support rather than face the fact they are married to a dishonest misogynistic sex pest who is also shite at his job.

TiddyTidTwo · 09/07/2022 18:58

Oh @Floraanddougal I missed that.

I hope OP is ok.

Polichinelle · 09/07/2022 19:24

It sounds extremely unlikely that 8 women are lying. Is your husband well versed in what constitutes sexual harassment in Uk? You certainly don't seem to know, as all that story about his PIN numbers, visiting your mother etc is TOTALLY irrelevant. He's potentially harassing them, not having an affair!

newusernamelouise · 09/07/2022 20:03

Is your husband from the UK? What passes as completely fine behavior in some countries/ cultures can be inappropriate in other places. Just mentioning in case your husband has a clear conscience but could be making female staff uncomfortable without realizing it.

Jalisco · 09/07/2022 21:53

newusernamelouise · 09/07/2022 20:03

Is your husband from the UK? What passes as completely fine behavior in some countries/ cultures can be inappropriate in other places. Just mentioning in case your husband has a clear conscience but could be making female staff uncomfortable without realizing it.

Harassment of women and other misogynistic behaviours are inappropriate in any culture. The fact that they may be prevalent in some places does not make them appropriate.

Polichinelle · 09/07/2022 22:46

Harassment of women and other misogynistic behaviours are inappropriate in any culture. The fact that they may be prevalent in some places does not make them appropriate.

Nobody is disputing that. We are just thinking that it is possible that the OP's husband comes from a culture where harassment is more ingrained or accepted, and therefore he doesn't even realise he's doing it. We are not excusing it, just pointing out that it's a possibility

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