Gay Ex-Amazon Employee Claims He Was Hit On by Female Boss Then Fired
The Seattle Times reports.Fahlberg had returned to his hometown of Spokane from London after the death of his husband, Michael Rittiman, from cancer in 2018.
Fahlberg had lived in Europe for 17 years.When he joined Amazon, he told the Times, “I literally got, ‘Here’s your computer, do your job.’ From the very beginning, it was a very negative experience.”He tried befriending his supervisor, a woman who was new in Spokane.
But on the night of August 15, 2020 — the second anniversary of his husband’s death — she “came to his apartment and, according to Fahlberg, groped him during an unsolicited sexual advance that shocked him,” the Times reports.Shortly afterward, he says, she began bullying him, behavior that included verbal abuse and extending his work hours.
She told him “that no one liked him and proceeded to make fun of the way [he] stood, dressed, and spoke,” court papers state.
