On the morning of April 1, 2021, Sena, 36, was on her way to teach an online class when she stopped for coffee at the Starbucks at Jane St. and Rutherford Rd. in Vaughan. A mask mandate was in effect and when asked why she wasn’t wearing one, she said she had a medical exemption.According to the ruling, when Sena came back in to get her drink, customer Sephra Perruzza, 20, challenged her lack of face mask and after their heated exchange, staff asked Sena to leave.
Perruzza then followed and the two women were involved in a “brief physical exchange.” The police were called but no charges were laid.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.information that the arbitrator described “at best, inaccurate and misleading and, at worst, deliberately provocative and incendiary.”
In the voiceover, Sena was portrayed as an “anti-masker” who demanded to be served without her mask and claimed that when another patron “stood up for the employees … the anti-masker assaulted her by pulling her hair and slamming her into concrete.”We apologize, but this video has failed to load.The TikTok ends by identifying Sena by name, posting her photo and contact information, including her Instagram and an email of the travel business where she worked.
With the ensuing media circus, the 13-year employee with an unblemished record was suspended with pay pending an investigation. A few months later, after the TCDSB investigator concluded she was the aggressor, Sena was fired for cause.portrayed both women as combatants in the culture war that was just developing at the time, “each captive to the pride associated with the perceived righteousness of their respective positions.”didn’t see it as clearcut as the board investigator did.
“This doesn’t even scrape the surface in making me whole again,” she says. “Everything my family had to endure, the harassment that ensued, and my inability to find work after, it was pretty intense.”