The employee stated that when she reported the rape to Amazon and gave credible evidence, the company told her that if she wanted to keep her job, she would have to keep working with the senior manager and not speak about the attack, according to the complaint obtained by MyNorthwest.
“I reported it to HR,” the employee told KIRO Newsradio. “Two days later … they allowed me to continue working with this person. And they told me not to mention anything, which kept me from warning other people. Ultimately, I had to continue working with him in that job if I were to keep it.”
The employee was allegedly raped in October 2023 on an Amazon-funded work trip in New York.
“One evening, after an Amazon-hosted open-bar event ended, numerous Amazon employees and partners, including [the employee] and [the senior manager], continued the gathering at karaoke and bars, all paid for by Amazon,” the complaint stated. “[The employee] and [the senior manager] flirted. They joked. They got along. Towards the end of the night, he kissed her. [The senior manager] persuaded [the employee] to go back to her hotel room with him. But [the employee] did not want to have sex with him. She refused to have sex with him. After all, this is not the 1800s. A man cannot demand a woman have sex with him because she drank, flirted, and was kissed.
“[The senior manager], however, had other plans,” it continued. “In [the employee’s] hotel room, during the early morning hours, [the senior manager] raped her. Before the rape started, she said no. During the rape, [the employee] asked him, ‘You realize this is,’ and [the senior manager] finished her sentence, saying, ‘rape? Yes.’ He ignored her protests. He raped her.”
You can choose to believe victims. You can choose to not pick apart a victim’s actions after they were raped. You can choose to simply say “that sucks, I hope she gets justice.”
But instead you chose to lie about whether she went to the police or not to cast doubt on her story.
I didn’t lie or create any type of falsehood. The article says she reported to her employer, which gave them the advantage. Then she reported to the police, but I guarantee they went to the police before she did to setup a defense.
I think providing advice and guidance for people to better handle these situations is more beneficial.
Internet sympathy is pointless, thoughts and prayers.
If you read the article as you claim, why did you push that she didn’t report to the police?
Internet sympathy is pointless, but internet derision is totally ok?
I never said that. You are making stuff up now.
Why did you come to the comment section to criticize this rape victim without reading the article?
I didn’t criticize anyone. I did read it, she went to her employer first and not the police.
Confronting the criminal is NEVER useful.
You criticized her for not reporting it to the police (she did report it to the police).
Now you’re backtracking.
If you had read the article, you wouldn’t have lied about how she didn’t report it to the police.
Where’s this energy for all the ways Amazon fucked this up? Why are you only criticizing the victim?
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