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Tosca's avatar

A "citizen's arrest" usually consists of knocking someone over and sitting on them until the cops arrive to detain and charge them.

What the hell are these fools planning to do with the cops once they've "arrested" them? Are they going to call the colleagues of the cop they're currently sitting on (bad), or haul said cop off to their own personal detention facility (much, much worse)?

I suspect they'll be handing out fake "summonses", which will be much less fun to watch.

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Enbastet's avatar

I'm a lawyer but not a labor lawyer. That having been admitted, I don't think that you have any personal claims here. If you are not trans this was not sex discrimination against you and unless it was sent to you because of your kids then it would hard to make the claim that you are being subjected to a hostile workplace personally. Hostile workplace claims also usually require more egregious conduct in a sustained way. (I'm not saying that this wasn't awful - only that the law may not cognate it.)

However, you may be able to snatch some victory from the jaws of Facebookery (seriously - that is never the way to go, unless you are posting about how shitty Facebook is...) by pointing out to the CEO that you acted in a social venue in a moment of high emotion (and be prepared to grovel about that) but that this jackwad acted inappropriately with cool intention in the office setting, and is likely to do so again, bringing far more problems to the organization.

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