Georgia company to pay $3 million to a black woman who endured harassment. That word doesn't begin to tell the story of what went down here, folks. According to Channel Two Action News and the law firm Buckley Ballot, [00:00:15] Wilson Mew LLP, Tiffany Marshall, Georgia woman has won more than $3 million. The judgment in a racial and discrimination lawsuit against Tidal Wave Response, LLC, and its owner John Myers. It's the largest single plaintiff verdict in the Northern District of Georgia [00:00:32] history. That ought to tell you something. That ought to get your attention. Tidal Wave Response, they clean up water damage. Atlanta Blackstar provides more details for us. Marshall was an office manager for the water damage restoration company in the Atlanta suburb of Chamblee, [00:00:51] Georgia, and claimed she was subjected to abusive and misogynistic treatment by her employer, including being forced to change his baby's diapers, enduring comments about his penis, and racial intimidation. Marshall began working for the company in February 2018, but resigned on August 6, [00:01:11] 2021, after being subjected to Myers harassment on a near daily basis, which ended after a confrontation where he threw hot coffee at Marshall. Already, and again, the verdict's in. This is the boss from hell. [00:01:27] The boss from hell. Myers forced her to watch his infant change the child's diapers, calling it a, quote, task suited for a woman. Also forced her to do the job of a terminated project manager, [00:01:43] commented on his penis size, and mocked his interpretation of black vernacular. Why Boo, why? The lawsuit states that Marshall confronted her boss about the extra duties [00:01:58] on August 4, two days before she left her position with the company. The complaint says that Myers became irate, shouted profanities, threw a cup of hot coffee near her, causing Marshall to fear for her safety and flee the office. Other reported harassment included Myers repeatedly questioning Marshall about her [00:02:15] sex life and implying she was sleeping with a co worker. Myers also asked Marshall if she thought a potential employee was hot and asked about her breast size. The complaint noted Myers making sexually charged noises and [00:02:31] saying he was sexually aroused as well. The jury deliberated for four hours before awarding Marshall back pay in the amount of $50,113.82. And then came the big money. [00:02:46] She was awarded compensatory and punitive damages for race discrimination, racial harassment, sex discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation. Total award being $3,470,393.82, [00:03:03] and I want the 0.82, too. The whole bit of it pay up. Mayor, the fact that this was so grand, so out there, what does that tell us about the culture when a Georgia jury, [00:03:22] they don't even like this kind, juries in Georgia, federal or state, I'm just telling you. For them to award this black woman all that money, what does that tell us about just how bad it is? [00:03:38] >> Speaker 2: Yeah, it means she went through hell, for sure. I mean, we heard, we're reading it, but trust me, it was so much more probably. And they saw that bear out probably in evidence. And this is why she had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, which is not the standard that's required in lawsuits, but when you're black, it is. [00:03:56] And apparently she had the information. She had the receipts. But can I go on a little nerd rant real quick? >> Speaker 1: Sure. >> Speaker 2: For people, black vernacular is a real thing. African American vernacular English is as real as regular English or [00:04:12] standard English. People need to understand the dialect between what a pigeon language is and English itself is a pigeon language. So this idea that you're mocking African American vernacular is actually dumb as hell. Go figure out where it came from and what Patois is to Jamaicans and [00:04:28] what African American vernacular is to black people who were not allowed to learn your English, sir, which is also in itself, a broken language. So I can't stand people mocking something that they have no context on and not truly understanding what it is. So to that, I say, with all of the s's included in African American vernacular, [00:04:48] this man is full of s. And I'll leave it at you to fill in the rest. >> Speaker 1: I see that, Mayor. You're wrong. You want people to do what now? Know their history. Do a little study before they just blurt out something ignorant. That's just not gonna happen. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't. [00:05:03] It's absolutely ridiculous, okay? And people can shop wherever they want, Mayor. Your house is damaged. There's not that many companies in the game, but I know I sure would first, I hope it never happens. But I'd be shopping around. [00:05:19] I'd be shopping around cuz I did a little few searches and there's some other things out there. When you behave one way over here, you might behave badly in some other thing, whatever it is. Things that matter, things that don't. [00:05:34] But you're just a bad actor. You're a bad actor, And you're not alone, apparently. There's a lot of bad actors out there. A lot of good people, too. They're still good people. There's a lot of bad actors out there.