The 23 million dollar w**k

[Ari]

The word 'accidentally' doing a LOT of heavy lifting there I suspect!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/15/wa...

Edited by Ari on Friday 16th June 10:00

[ATG]

It's a little hard to see how his behaviour caused her $30MM of damage. It's almost like US litigation is nuts.

[ScotHill]

There but for the grace of God come I.

[JagLover]

ATG said:

It's a little hard to see how his behaviour caused her $30MM of damage. It's almost like US litigation is nuts.

If it is as reported, which seems to be leaving the camera on accidentally while doing some "private time", then it does seem nuts. It can only really be understood in the hypersensitivity following "me-too".

[Previous]

I believe its called "the money shot".

[Catastrophic Poo]

ATG said:

It's a little hard to see how his behaviour caused her $30MM of damage. It's almost like US litigation is nuts.

When you’re from Dell money, well….

[Petrus1983]

Ridiculous - she could have just turned off the screen. How has it damaged her reputation at all - apart from being a little perv and carried on watching.

Non paywall -

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12200523/...

[Ari]

ATG said:

It's a little hard to see how his behaviour caused her $30MM of damage. It's almost like US litigation is nuts.

Precisely my thinking. It's almost as though they based it on how much money was available to be doled out rather than actual damage.

[Murph7355]

Previous said:

I believe its called "the money shot".

[J4CKO]

"Ball Street wker"

For 30 million dollars, I would watch

That is a ridiculous, even if he was being a pervert and did it on purpose, but if it was a mistake it seems extremely punitive.

More money than most people ever see in a lifetime times several because they saw someone bashing one out ? Has that person never seen a penis, seems hypocritical and if they are in a heterosexual relationship that involves sex, he should be reprimanded and pay something but 23 million quid, jesus, world gone mad.

My tip, tape over the camera or make sure its unplugged

[bitchstewie]

Love how the Telegraph are framing this as a "working from home blunder".

[Mr Whippy]

Not for this specific reason, but my microphone and camera are on a laptop which is bagged away unless I use it specifically for this kind of rubbish meetings/discussing stuff/sharing screens.

To have cameras and microphones on and possibly running inside your office, with other people possibly accidentally looking/listening in, is a bit iffy for so so so many reasons.

[FourWheelDrift]

ATG said:

It's a little hard to see how his behaviour caused her $30MM of damage. It's almost like US litigation is nuts.

Dell = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Glade]

Yeah I just employ the "no wking with with the work computer on" tactic, usually.

[Radec]

Found the footage

[ScotHill]

The Kids In The Hall have an amazing sketch about this if anyone has Amazon Prime, the last sketch of new S1E2, make sure you watch the whole thing.

[Carl_Manchester]

ScotHill said:

There but for the grace of God come I.

bravo , have a

[biggbn]

Carl_Manchester said:

ScotHill said:

There but for the grace of God come I.

bravo , have a

And another. Kudos

[dvs_dave]

Petrus1983 said:

Ridiculous - she could have just turned off the screen. How has it damaged her reputation at all - apart from being a little perv and carried on watching.

Non paywall -

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12200523/...

Indeed.

[DAILYMAIL]: Father-of-one Dell reached an 'multi-million dollar' agreement and paid out to the woman. But the settlement was 'much smaller' than her suggested $30million, according to the report. Senior executives at Goldman Sachs believed that if the woman was so traumatized by the explicit video, she could have simply stopped watching, according to Bloomberg's sources who described their reactions.

[dvs_dave]

Radec said:

Found the footage

If that’s legit, then that’s career/reputation ending stuff right there.