• grue@lemmy.world
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    6 hours 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?’”

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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.

    • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours 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?