We reported back in September how executives in Michelle Mone’s bra company, Ultimo brand lingerie, had bugged the office of another executive, Scott Kilday. Along with the drama of marital breakup and corporate hijinx, some other results of that episode are now coming to light.  After the bugged Kilday resigned, Hugh McGinley, who worked under him, claims the resulting stress and a workload increase was so intense that he was forced to quit and is now demanding compensation for a loss of earnings. 

from an article in the Scottish Daily Record of 2/14/2014:

BRA tycoon Michelle Mone became a very demanding boss as her firm ran into “serious difficulties” during her marriage split, an ex-employee claimed yesterday.

Accountant Hugh McGinley, 52, who is suing MJM International for £20,000 for constructive dismissal, told a tribunal in Glasgow he was forced out of his job of six years because of the stress and pressure. He also claimed he was caught in the middle during Mone’s bitter break-up with her husband Michael, who was the managing director. McGinley said his workload increased greatly after the firm’s finance director left and wasn’t replaced.

He said after receiving just eight emails from Mone in 10 months, her demands on him increased at the end of 2012, when a takeover was being considered amid “serious financial difficulties”. The £37,000-a-year accountant said he was bombarded with more than 400 emails in four months, adding: “Every request from Michelle was urgent.”

and from another Daily Record article 2/15/2014:

McGinley said he felt sickened when he found out a bug had been discovered in Kilday’s office at MJM on February 21 last year. He was in the office up to 20 times day. He said the final straw came when the responsibility for looking after blank cheques was taken off him and given to a new employee. During cross-examination, advocate Alice Stobart, for MJM, told McGinley: “Michelle Mone is not the ogre you are making her out to be.” McGinley is claiming £20,000 compensation for constructive dismissal and loss of earnings.

All this from a little recording device left in a potted plant. 

See earlier article: Ultimo Bra tycoon Michelle Mone’s firm accused of bugging potted plant.