Employment Tribunal Gets Dirty: Sex, Hedge Funds and 'Vile' Latin Emails
Hedge funds: the thinking man’s rock and roll?
Sex in the City isn’t quite a glamorous as four female New Yorkers and their strings of handsome partners would have you think. Not viewed through the spectre of this case. A tribunal claim brought by 29-year-old Jordan Wimmer in London Central Employment Tribunal against 59-year-old Mark Lowe of Nomos Capital does not really remind one of Carrie and Mr Big et al. Well not exactly anyway.
Miss Wimmer is suing Mr Lowe, an …
Hedge funds: the thinking man’s rock and roll?
Sex in the City isn’t quite a glamorous as four female New Yorkers and their strings of handsome partners would have you think. Not viewed through the spectre of this case. A tribunal claim brought by 29-year-old Jordan Wimmer in London Central Employment Tribunal against 59-year-old Mark Lowe of Nomos Capital does not really remind one of Carrie and Mr Big et al. Well not exactly anyway.
Miss Wimmer is suing Mr Lowe, an Oxford-educated Classics scholar, for £4million, claiming he hounded her out of her £577,000-a-year job at his firm. During the course of one hearing, evidence was heard from Ariane Gordji, who sought work experience at Nomos Capital, claiming Lowe sent her a lewd e-mail in response to a Latin translation request.
The quote she apparently required translation for was: "ego autem dico vobis diligite inimicos vestros" meaning (according to the Mail at least – after the Woolf reforms, we got a little rusty), "But I say to you. Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you". It is not clear if Lowe bothered with a translation but he apparently offered a Latin response from the first-century Roman poet Catullus that translates as: "screw you and b***** you". Charming.
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November 24, 2009
Why is this woman complaining? She got paid ridiculous increases to basically be the eye candy in a fancy outfit. What did she expect? She should try getting a proper job with no real qualifications other than her looks.
November 24, 2009
@lawlord – sexist tripe. Whatever reasons she was given the job, in this day and age it is unacceptable for people to abuse their position of authority to degrade members of the opposite sex.
November 25, 2009
Really, these people should get over themselves. Some of the emails that were circulated were emails I have received myself from friends and were daft rather than offensive. I’m a female WITH a sense of humour, by the way….
November 25, 2009
Money changes peoples reality.
November 25, 2009
I think it outrageous these people get paid £577,000 at all. Frankly for that money I’d dress up in a skirt and Mr Lowe could spank my ass and call me Rosie all he liked. Lewd emails in Latin. So last millenium.
All I have to say on the matter is: Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est