Irish woman awarded $31K after suing boss for repeatedly hurling ‘potato’ slur — other ‘humiliating’ terms at her
Cristiana Gigina
A spud-tacular win. An Irish woman scored a $31,000 windfall in a racial discrimination suit after her British boss repeatedly hurled racist slurs – including calling her a “potato” – in an Emerald Isle accent at her. Bernadette Hayes, 55, said the six months of bullying she received at the hands of her boss, Mick Atkins, made her feel like she had “suffered a death by a thousand cuts,” the Independent reported. The scorned bookkeeper told a UK employment court that her hateful manager — at
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