Laura Cameron Peck, senior executive, wins £100,000 after complaining that Rhonda Alexander, boss of women-friendly dating app Fluttr had reduced staff to tears with her ‘bullying’ behaviour

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A senior executive has won almost £100,000 after she complained that the female CEO of a women-friendly dating app had reduced staff to tears with her bullying behaviour.

Rhonda Alexander was the boss of Fluttr, a British app that when it launched boasted it would beat ‘Tinder Swindler’-style romance fraud and create a ‘safe space’ for single women.

The Cambridge University educated New Yorker declares herself a ‘fierce champion for female leaders and entrepreneurs’ who believes that ‘female acknowledgement is a fundamental building block to enabling all women to be seen, heard, and respected’.

However, an employment tribunal heard that behind the scenes at the company her ‘downright rude’ and ‘damaging’ behaviour to staff had led to a series of complaints.

One victim was Laura Cameron Peck, the CEO of a sister start-up to Fluttr who reported Ms Alexander to bosses, accusing her of being ‘passive aggressive’, ‘manipulative’ and of eroding the confidence of colleagues by ‘throwing eggs’ at their suggestions.

But the tribunal heard that rather than address her concerns, senior executives turned on Ms Cameron Peck, forcing her out of her £120,000 a year job just three months after she started.

Now she has been awarded £97,361 in compensation for the way she was treated after blowing the whistle.

One victim was Laura Cameron Peck, the CEO of a sister start-up to Fluttr who reported Ms Alexander to bosses, accusing her of being ‘passive aggressive’, ‘manipulative’ and of eroding the confidence of colleagues by ‘throwing eggs’ at their suggestions.

But the tribunal heard that rather than address her concerns, senior executives turned on Ms Cameron Peck, forcing her out of her £120,000 a year job just three months after she started.

Now she has been awarded £97,361 in compensation for the way she was treated after blowing the whistle.

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4 thoughts on “Laura Cameron Peck, senior executive, wins £100,000 after complaining that Rhonda Alexander, boss of women-friendly dating app Fluttr had reduced staff to tears with her ‘bullying’ behaviour

  1. Cambridge educated, explains everything.

    I remember that interview I went to there, which turned out to be a feminist doing the usual!

    Daniel ________________________________

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  2. Well maybe managing women drove her to it. “Female medics, police officers and teachers want to work from home, survey finds” The public services Union Unison surveyed its female members and found a distinct lack of dedication to public service or even being in work. Sadly no one seems to bother as our public services decline, but I can see things may get fraught in competetive industries https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/15/female-medics-police-officers-and-teachers-want-to-work-fro/

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    • Thanks Nigel. How the hell can medics, police officers and teachers work from home?!!! What an illustration of Dr Catherine Hakim’s Preference Theory, her research uncovered that four in seven British men are ‘work-centred’, but only one in seven British women.

      These women are taking the piss, putting their own convenience and ease above service quality (as always) and knowing this ridiculous demand will get traction with feminist-directed governments and public bodies. For years I made such points in the Telegraph comments stream, but they recently banned me for life, without explaining why, they just pointing to some gibberish guidance.

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  3. The original report https://www.unison.org.uk/news/2024/02/women-in-the-uks-public-services-repeatedly-denied-flexible-work-requests-says-unison/ In it you will see that the majority of requests for flexible working are “work life balance” then “mental health” rather than because of balancing caring responsibilities. Of course the last is the reason the Union gives for their demand for more easily obtainable flexible work patterns. No doubt because the public paying taxes for these services are hardly likely to be sympathetic to the majority who just fancy a “balance” (usually long weekends or wfh) or get a bit stressed (in social care “mental health” is the new “back ache” as back problems saw a sharp decline and mental health a sharp increase as a reason for time off or “light duties”.
    I notice the Union didn’t even bother to ask its male members !

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