Last updated at 4:33 PM on 23rd January 2012
A 'sex pest' spymaster bombarded an agent with emails and texts as he plagued her to have an affair with him, a tribunal heard today.
The manager, known only as Mr F, sat too close to his employee and texted her to ask if she had 'undressed' during the night, she claimed.
Miss D eventually spoke to the HR department at the Government intelligence unit about what she saw as sexual harassment, she told Central London Tribunal, from behind a screen protecting her identity.
Awkward situation: The spy boss would sit too close to the agent, making her feel uncomfortable, she said (file picture)
She said she had been scared to speak out because Mr F had threatened to 'wipe the floor' with her.
On one occasion, she said, Mr F had been to the doctors about his skin condition psoriasis. She emailed him to say she hoped the appointment had gone well, and he replied: 'Is chlamydia serious?'
She denied she saw it as a joke, adding: 'I thought, why is he sending something of a sexual nature again? Why do it? I thought, oh my God, here we go again.'
She said she had responded by emailing: 'It can make you sterile. Though I think that is just for women so I think you should be OK.'
It had not simply been 'friendly banter', she insisted.
'I was trying to get on with my manager. He sent me something about chlamydia which I didn't think was ideal considering he was sexually harassing me. I was trying to keep the situation amicable with the response I made.'
At one point she even suggested that he have an affair with another member of staff to 'get him off my back', she said.
She told the tribunal she had sent him a text reading: 'If you make up your mind to stray, I still think you and SW would be good together.'
'Harassment': Mr F made comments of a sexual nature to Miss D, including asking her if she had undressed during the night, she told Central London Employment Tribunal Centre, pictured
Miss D denied suggestions from Adam Tolley, representing the respondents, that she thought the manager was an 'attractive, intelligent, funny and kind' man and that she was 'often tactile... putting your hand on his. You sat to close to him.'
She said: 'Only because he put his chair so close to mine. He was bang up against me and used to say "you don't like me being too close to you, do you?"
'I said "no, I don't", but he continued. He made me feel embarrassed and intimidated.'
I thought, why is he sending something of a sexual nature again? Why do it? I thought, oh my God, here we go again.
- MISS D
She told the tribunal of an occasion he told her he was going to take a 'sickie' from work and texted her asking: 'You didn't get undressed during the night, did you?'
He suggested she 'give him a shout' if she got bored.
Referring to why she decided to make a formal complaint, she said: 'I knew that nothing I could ever have done would have stopped him. He was a sexual harasser.'
She said she had been unsure about how much detail to give when she complained because 'I was scared. This guy said he would wipe the floor with me.'
The tribunal heard of a text exchange between the pair referring to a staff Christmas fancy dress party when she wrote about 'not being brave enough for a cowgirl costume'.
She said: 'I was in bed with my computer trying to get a costume started. I didn't like that you either had to go as a pirate or a cowgirl so I ended up going as a pirate.'
The hearing continues.
Source : dailymail
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