from www.foxnews.com -You shouldn’t have. No, you really shouldn’t have.
A Queens woman told her boss to take this job and shove it when he gave her a vibrating dildo for her birthday after months of sexually suggestive comments and unwanted come-ons, according to a lawsuit.
Silvia Olveira had put up with the conversations about her boss’ sex life. She endured his comments about her body. She even tolerated his clumsy attempt to stuff her paycheck in her back pocket, her legal papers allege.
But when she opened up Ibrahim Mansi’s birthday gift to her in October 2009 and found a sex toy, she had had enough.
“Usually, I get a cake for my employees,” Olveira, 34, said he told her.
“When I opened it, I saw this thing. I was like, what is this? I didn’t know what to do in that moment. I went outside and took the bag and threw it in the garbage. I called him and said, ‘Don’t do that anymore.’ He said, ‘Come on, girl. You don’t know how to enjoy your life.’ ”
After she came back inside after dumping the gift, Olveira said, “He asked me what I did with that thing, and I told him I threw it in the garbage.”
Her high-powered attorney, Matthew Blit, said Mansi “abused his position of power to force unwilling employees to appease his deviant sexual behavior.” Mansi, 47, denied the allegations.
“She is trying to blackmail me,” he said. “There is no grounds for this suit.”
from www.gothamist.com – Astoria-based insurance broker Ibrahim Mansi tries to take care of his employees, and when one of his favorite subordinates, Silvia Olveira, celebrated her 33rd birthday in October 2009, he wanted give her the gift of unparalleled pleasure. But everything went terribly wrong as soon as Olveira opened up the present Mansi had put so much thought and effort into selecting. “When I opened it, I saw this thing,” Olveira tells the Post. “I was like, what is this?” That “this” was a vibrating dildo. And unbeknownst to Mansi, this sort of gift is frowned upon in today’s modern workplace.
“I didn’t know what to do in that moment,” says Olveira.
“I went outside and took the bag and threw it in the garbage. I called him and said, ‘Don’t do that anymore.'” Trying to salvage the awkward situation, Mansi explained that he usually gets a cake for his employees, but he thought Olveira had earned special treatment. Olveira recalls him saying, “Come on, girl. You don’t know how to enjoy your life.”
And when Mansi asked what became of his gift, Olveira tactlessly told him, “I threw it in the garbage.” Couldn’t she have at least re-gifted it?
It just doesn’t pay to reward your employees—especially not if your idea of “reward” is telling them all about your sexual exploits with your wife and mistress. Mansi has not returned our call requesting comment, but the lawsuit also alleges that his ill-advised gift was the culmination of a series of inappropriate office incidents.
According to the lawsuit, Mansi repeatedly asked Olveira to tell him about her sex life, overshared about his, commented often about her breasts and buttocks, asked her to sit on his lap, slapped her buttocks, frequently tried to kiss her, and attempted to slide her paycheck into her pants pocket. So perhaps that “large skin colored vibrating dildo” gift wasn’t so innocent after all.
