Nathan Blakeley lodged claim after comment made by boss when female colleague won award at the company party
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/05/male-marketing-executive-loses-sex-discrimination-claim-over-company-awards
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Yes, it’s as dumb as the title makes it sound.
The director Megan Robertson told the tribunal: “When I read out the results for one of the award categories, I introduced it by referring to ‘she’ and then went on to say ‘sorry boys’. Given that approximately 95% of the workforce is female, this was not statistically surprising.”
So if men only make up 5% of the workforce, why single them out at the awards ceremony🤔 did she apologise to the other women who didn’t win? After all it’s not statistically surprising that only one person wins.
Sounds like the boss needlessly injected gender into the contest.
If you read the article you would have seen that she said “sorry boys” after inadvertently revealing the winner was female during the build up to announcing the winner. A bit lame and infantilising, probably, but it was a marketing exec saying it so what can you expect?
