Text From Raymours VP Spurs Fired Worker’s Sex Bias Suit

A former Raymours Furniture regional sales director in New York was fired because she’s a woman, and a lewd text message her boss sent helps prove it, she says.

The text from Vice President of Sales Alex Shakhmurov to Susan Hayes and two male co-workers in June 2017 was in response to one of the co-workers texting the group that his wife was nervous about their son going to the prom that night, according to a lawsuit Hayes filed May 25 in Long Island federal court. Shakhmurov responded that he hoped their colleague’s son gets “laid by twins,” the lawsuit ...