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Karina Gasparova claimed that Aleksander Goulandris’s use of question marks in the ‘xx’ message was also code for asking him to ‘engage in sexual acts’. An IT worker sued for sexual harassment after claiming her boss was blowing her kisses when she marked an email where she wanted more information with ‘xx’.
She said her superior was trying to “converse with her” when discussing business on a work call, running her hands through her hair and “staring” at her, a London employment tribunal heard. Ms. Gasparova took her employer, the paperless document firm essDOCS, to court alleging sexual harassment, discrimination, and unfair dismissal. In April 2021, she filed a detailed complaint against her boss, and she resigned when she was rejected twice.
But a panel led by a judge threw out her case, ruling that she has a “skewed perception of everyday events” and regularly misinterprets “innocuous” interactions. Ms. Gasparova was also ordered to pay £5,000 to essDOCS for failing to comply with court procedures in a timely manner.
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The court heard that she started working at essDOCS in west London as an IT project manager in November 2019 under co-head and former chief executive Mr. Goulandris.
Ms. Gasparova told bosses that she thought Mr. Goulandris wanted to have a sexual relationship with her, but he was treating her poorly because he had “rejected her advances” from her. She claimed this included yelling at her, undermining her in client meetings, and taking key items away from her at work.
Ms Gasparova told the panel that Mr Goulandris was a “rich and powerful man” so his conduct had not been “overt” as “a man in his position would be too intelligent” to make obvious moves. The panel ruled that this meant that her case “was based on interpreting seemingly innocent interactions” between her and Goulandris and “finding a sinister motive in them.”
Ms. Gasparova claimed that in November 2019 Mr. Goulandris touched her leg under her table and “stared” at her, leaving her “anxious and uncomfortable”. The court ruled that the incident did occur, but that it had been accidental and ‘innocuous’ in nature.
In other assertions that were dismissed by the panel, Ms. Gasparova said that Mr. Goulandris touched her hand when she pointed to her computer mouse and did not. On a work call in March 2020, she said that Mr. Goulandris was giving her “leering looks” while she was “constantly running her hand through her hair” and began to look at her as she asked him questions.
The panel heard that although he had been talking to her about business, she interpreted her behavior “as an attempt to chat her up” because he was spending a lot of time doing so. In May 2020, Mr. Goulandris renamed a presentation file draft by adding ‘ajg’ in parentheses, which Ms. Gasparova interpreted as ‘A Jumbo Genital’.
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The panel heard that Mr. Goulandris’s middle name is John and he was in the habit of adding his initials AJG to the names of documents he had reviewed. It was heard that when she invited him to lunch in September 2020, “to get some peace” from him sending “a lot of messages”, he declined her offer.
Ms Gasparova told the court this was because “lunch involved romance and he just wanted sex.” The same month, when Mr. Gasparova asked her when he would be finishing a project, she told the court that he erupted in an “extremely angry voice”, saying “I need a date, date, date.”
Ms. Gasparova interpreted this to mean that she had been asked: “the exact date when she would finally agree to have sexual contact with him”. In October, she complained that she had received an invitation to the same meeting 16 times from Mr. Goulandris, but the court found that it was not of a deliberate or sexual nature.
In January 2021, Goulandris said that Gasparovav misinterpreted her courtesy for “flirting” when she said “Have a good night” in what she described as a “seductive voice”. Later that month, the panel heard that Mr. Goulandris sent an email to Ms. Gasparovav asking for information about a project. To indicate the data that she required him to fill in, she used XX, YY, and ???? in the message, written in red.
The court heard that she interpreted the x’s as kissing, the y’s as sexual contact of some kind, and the question marks as when she would be “ready to engage in sexual acts”. The panel heard that Ms. Gasparova tried to rally the support of her colleagues and asked whether Mr. Goulandris had ever made sexual advances such as “leering, winking and touching.”
Nobody answered him. In April 2021, he filed a detailed complaint, dismissing all of his sexual harassment allegations. She appealed the decision in May 2021 but was again rejected, for which he resigned.
Employment judge Emma Burns said: “Our main reasons for rejecting her account of her events were that we considered her perception of her day-to-day events to be biased.” She demonstrated a tendency to make extraordinary accusations without proof and she contradicted herself in a way that she could not attribute to a fallible memory.
“Ms. Gasparova interpreted completely innocent work-related conduct, some of it accidental, on the part of Mr. Goulandris as having a sinister intent.” Her claims of direct sexual harassment, discrimination, and unfair dismissal were rejected by the panel.
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