San Francisco Dec 1 (IANS) Randi Zuckerberg the former Director of Market Development of Facebook and the sister of the company s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was sexually harassed on an Alaska Airlines flight she said in a Facebook post.
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur took to the social media platform to explain her ordeal and how the flight attendants brushed off her co-passenger s behaviour.
"Feeling furious disgusted and degraded after an Alaska Airlines flight during which the passenger next to me made repeated lewd inappropriate and offensive sexual remarks to me " Randi posted on Facebook late on Thursday.
"Both me and my colleague reported the incident to flight attendants who told me this was a frequent flier brushed off his behaviour as "oh he just doesn t have a filter " kept feeding him more drinks and suggested that I move to the back of the plane if I was uncomfortable " she added.
Meanwhile Alaska Airlines has launched an investigation and have temporarily suspended her co-passenger s travel privileges.
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