Rupertin cackled, as gnomes flew away from her. Even when she was sitting in the dark part of the Great Hall. Like after 11pm, when Dumbledore blew out all the candles because he wanted to save money during the war. So the Great Hall was dark, with only the ceiling night sky as company. No one told Dumble that it was creepy as heck during a wartime.
But oh well. Rupertin could make out the gnomes were wearing egg shells. Dumbledore forgot about Easter eggs, so he wanted to redo that theme. Abraxas Malfoy, on the school board, was complaing that Dumbledore cared more about silly themes than the war. Dumbledore replied that Abraxas complained more about dark marks and pureblood ideology, than parties these days. And asked Abraxas, what the point of his dark lord revolution was if he stopped enjoying parties. That shut Abraxas up, and Dumbledore won.
Rupertin sat and Sterlinge was next to her. "Why are we here again?"
"Yeah why?" Sirius asked, grumpily. "I'm not even doing Mauradar things."
"Because I have the weird urge to giggle," Rupertin said, "and I don't want to wake up my dormmates."
"Then why don't you go to Ster's ''dorm''"," Sirius made air quotes.
"Because I'm ghosting him," Rupe replied. "So he followed me here so I have to reply to him atleast once every 2 days."
"That's hard to get her to do, even when I'm right next to her," Sterlinge told his brother. "Sometimes she stops speaking as I talk."
"Ted, Lucy, and Frank feel your pain," Sirius patted his shoulder. "What are you up to anyways, Rupe?"
Rupertin turned to them with shining, bright eyes. "Did you get some bad news?" Sterlinge started to ask.
Rupe cut him off with a violent hand wave. "Yes, war news! I had two final HR reports to my old company! And guess WHAT?"
Sterlinge and Sirius stared at her, timedly. Waiting for her to go on.
"I added onto the HR, after my first intake interview with the magical EEOC. I told them I reported my my little ex co-worker's little magically discrimatory comments about family curses to HR before they closed that investigation, claiming they didn't find anyhting," Rupertin explained. "They said if I had owl post comunnication, send it to her. Except I didn't put that in the old HR investigation that closed. I put that in the HR investigation that's still open."
"So I told him I was mistaken, but I remember sending a patronous to my former boss, about my discrimatory co-worker, and he didn't reply. I also told a shop worker about another shop worker, who was discrimatory to me about my red hair/gingers. She called me a non muggle chucky, she was talking about me because I pestered her, and said it because I'm a ginger. The EEOC interviewer didn't reply, when I sent them that information yesterday, when they asked for it. They didn't reply today either. But then the genius HR closes one of the latest HR reports today. And yesterday, I added to the report to detail how my old co-worker and employee were discrimatory. I mentioned what they said and how I felt it was discrimatory. Well I left out a few details. But the HR closes that report today and says they found no violation. So I sent a copy of that corrospendence to the interviewer, hahahaha."
"That is an unseen development," Sirius says.
"It gets better, the interviewer may not let me file a charge, or they may. And hopefully my old boss and the shop owners are still sweating. I haven't heard from them. But I went to the magical Scottish DCR, and reported the HR company, a 3rd party. I also added the HR company didn't help me me get one item, the shop owner didn't let me get - because she said it probably went bad, before she banned me from the store. Plus I left behind something else expensive behind. That's why I orignally made the HR report.
I even asked the DCR what would happen if the shop owner already throws away her APs' security pensive memories, from a month ago, including the incident I reported. And when it's time for my DCR interview, what if the shop owner throws away her AP's pensive memories from a months ago too, getting rid of any more evidence? And before I did that I also found out most experienced labor & employment counsel will promptly issue the shop a "litigation hold" letter which directs the business to retain and suspend all normal destruction practices of any potentially relevant records and other pensive evidence."
"The DCR process is different that eeoc, so I asked through the DCR floo portal. I haven't gotten a response yet, but I also found out another shop had gotten rid of records before an investigation was complete, and the EEOC claimed that the employer "concealed the existence of documents and its destruction appears, at the very least, grossly negligent, or more likely, deliberate.". I assume, destroying records and pensive evidence will only screw the company over down the line."
But some courts find that a duty to preserve evidence is triggered for potential litigation if a reasonable person in the party's position should have foreseen that specific documents, data or things were material to a lawsuit. Other courts have held that a duty to preserve such evidence arises once a party knows that information may be relevant to a reasonably foreseeable claim. So I hope the timing of my report, doesn't mean evidence is lost."
"I'm sure you will get a response and assurance your case will be handled, regardless of deliberate attempts from the shop owner, who knew she was better off getting rid of all old AP pensive memories from when you were working, the moment you were placed on suspension for no given reason. And she knew you would be fired soon." Sterlinge assured her. "She was probably mad you were in her shop, so she have to wait longer to get rid of the latest pensive memories of you in the shop, which could include your old old co-workers being discrimatory again. She knew that information was relevant to a foreseeable claim."
"And a lot of her shop's past pensive information is relevant to a reasonably foressable cliam, because she keeps her creepy employee around," Sirius agreed. "Don't worry. Maybe she might feel like she is better off deleting her AP's pensive of a dark mark above her shop, after she leaves her employees to assist Bellatrix. And Bellatrix doesn't find a good pureblood item on sale."
Meanwhile in the shop
The company fireplace roared to life. Bert's head appeared in the fire. "Felishitty!"
Felicity stopped couting the cash in her plantati- shop, made from the blood of the sl- employees. She stuffed the cash in her bum. "Yes?"
"I have a problem Felishitty, the EEOC hasn't replied to me. I haven't a notice of a charge of discrimination notice, signed by Rupertin. But I wasn't given any indication it was dismissed aka she got a right to s-s-sue," Bert whined. "Atleast if it was dismissed, I doubt Rupertin Weasley has the time or means to sue me. What if I have to fire the only cheap labor I have, in this shop, rated dirtiest shop in the county, by Witch's Weekly or pay a big settlement?"
Felishitty huffed and hobbled over, bum jiggling. "Excuse me, atleast you remmebered this dirty store exists," Felicity huffed. "And I'm the one who will get in deep shit. I had to cease destructing the AP's pensive memories. And I have fancy AP guys, who drink invisible potion then lean over the top of shelves, and see everything. They even lay under shelves, or sit on middle shelves. They're so good, I destroy their pensive memories every 3 months. I thought I'd get to destroy the last 3 months, right when Rupertin was on suspension, because you promised you would fire her."
"That's why I said remove her from the store, so she wouldn't know your other employees weren't fired. And she wouldn't get suspicious or speak up, assert her rights to take legal action. And those employees wouldn't do something stupid to her in front of invisible AP guys, which I can't destroy until 3 months later. But now she knows! And I can't delete anything, while my favorite creepy employee is in the store all day. I can't keep any evidence of his weirdness! Do you understand?
"And now I lose cheap labor and my employee is also in the new HR report, for a discriminatory comment too. The cherry on top is, I didn't let her take her food, I told her it already went bad," Felishitty said, sarcastically.
"Sorry Felishitty, but this store is dirtier than our games, your soul, and your favorite employee, we were bound to leave a paper trail or something, and get caught. She was always onto my other employees," Ber replied. "And why didn't you give her, her food back? Did you eat it?"
Felicty didn't answer. "Felishitty! You don't eat vendor's food like a pig!" Ber moaned.
"Well excuse me, I was hungry. Counting money makes me hungry," Felishitty's stomach grumbled.
Bert shook his head. "I'm stuck with pigs, you and Marco are greedy pigs. And I read Rupertin's latest HR report, she found out my current employees in this store, worked for Marco, when they came to spy on Rupertin. Marco told them not to get caught stalking Rupertin, but they were going overboard. But what is she going to do about it now? She's fired now."
"Shut up, I lost cheap labor. That's all that matters. You pay less, and I get to keep Marco's cheap labor in my store through your company. Your company isn't sending Marco's company here anymore, after the shamanian inspector report," Felicity grumbled. "Now we get a conditional satisfactory rating twice."
"I'm surprised I didn't get shut down," Bert said. "It's surprising, sometimes my employees do work. And they can even pretend to look clean."
"Yeah well, I weasleled out of black mold in the back of my shop," Felishitty said. "I should've been shut down years ago. So the shamanian inspector and I go way back. I know how to bribe him good. My shop is my pig stye. A conditional satisfactory rating doesn't bother me, or my blind customers. I also told that shamian inspector that Rupertin is stalking us, so he is not to tell her that your employees got caught serving food with nasty unrwapped plates, in their nasty carts. She's not allowed to know."
"Good," Bert said.
Suddenly the shop shook. "WHERE IS MY REFUND, THAT WAS NOT THE WRONG BOX YOU CRIMINALS?" someone yelled from outside. "FILTHY MUDBLOOD! THE DARK LORD WILL GET RID OF FILTH LIKE YOU! A NEW ORDER IS AMONG US!"