A horrifically sexist email has gone viral after the boss of a Hollywood talent agency accidentally hit ‘reply all.’
The unintended recipient, Rosette Laursen, shared screenshots of the email thread to Facebook, writing: “You know when someone accidentally gets CC’d on an email and it’s awkward for everyone?”
Before going on to explain that she had emailed her boss, Michael Einfeld, and asked for the day off on International Woman’s Day for the ‘A Day Without A Woman’ movement – which encouraged females to take a day off work to demonstrate the value they bring to the workplace in protest of the gender pay gap.
Rosette recieved this response, which she notes was meant to only go to two (male) coworkers:
“Are you f****ng kidding me. At the end of pilot season. Someone should sew her vagina shut. I’m never hiring a girl ever again.
No bonus for anyone that strikes or leaves early in pilot season. No one is striking in show business we are all against Trump. And women are considered diverse and being shoved in as writer and directors. Zach who is a Jewish male is being pushed out.
Uppity Selfish C***. Heather went to work. I’m sure anyone at a casting office or agency would be fired.”
She then received the following apology – if it can even be classed that way: “I apologize for venting like a misogynistic fa***t. I was letting off steam I didn’t mean to hit reply all. I’m an a**hole. If you come back we can play Nazi death camp. You can beat me and put me in the oven. Or feed me cabbage and lock me in the shower. I am truly sorry.”
Rosette replied with a simple: “I quit.”
She then went to a lawyer who specialises in workplace harassment, and her boss decided to, very maturely, ignore all communication.
“He tried calling my bluff by completely ignoring every letter, phone call and email from the lawyer, essentially refusing to settle privately,” Rosette wrote. “My lawyer said this had never happened in all his years practising as a specialist in hostile work environments.”
Because the next step was to take the case to court – where the emails would become public, anyway – Rosette decided to, instead, drop the case and share the emails to social media in hopes that the story would be shared.
“I don’t want people like [him] to get away with whatever behavior they want because they know no one is going to do anything about it.”
