The one time I got a co-worker in trouble for sexual harassment was when I was working at a pizza place in the late 1980s. Another girl who worked there reported him, after I overheard him making inappropriate comments to her (she was 15, it was her first job, and she didn’t realize he’d done anything wrong) and they had enough on him to fire him. Not only did I not want to be alone in that place with him, the MALE employees didn’t either, and he had also been stealing money. He was an all-purpose jerkwad.
I never posted any “metoo” experiences on social media, but I seriously considered outing a GIRL I grew up with who, among other things, regularly threatened to arrange my gang-rape so I would get pregnant and have to leave school. (One wonders what kind of horrors a girl would have had to experience herself to even think of wanting to do something like this to another girl!) She never succeeded, but I really think it would have been a justified shitshow to name her on Facebook, where she did have an account.
Oh, and that Facebook account? Yeah, I blocked her, but not before I saw what she was doing for a living at the time. She worked in the claims denial department of a health insurance company. Now, I do understand why such a department exists, fraud being the main one, but she would probably be the type who would deny claims for kicks and grins.
On a related note, around the same time that I worked at the pizza place, I worked at (what else?) an insurance company, in what was basically the typing pool, and there was a woman in an adjacent department who had worked there for about 10 years, since a few months after she graduated from high school. She had previously worked at a bank, and the loan officers all wanted to go to bed with her and fired her because she wouldn’t.
When she had her interview, the man who interviewed her, who had since retired, asked, as his first question, “Why were you fired from XYZ Bank?” When she replied, “Because I wouldn’t go to bed with the loan officers,” he set his pen down, leaned back, and said, “I’m offering you the job, and I want you to take it.” I do have a feeling that it wasn’t the first time he’d heard that from someone who had previously worked at that bank.
ISTR that Chris Matthews’ health has not been good for many years.
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I also believe that Anita Hill made up the sexual harassment claims against Clarence Thomas, because she had wanted to date him and he wasn’t interested. By doing this, she set the whole cause back by untold years. This doesn’t mean that I endorse Thomas, or anything else he’s done, in any way. Her body language gave it all away to me, and a lot of other people.
If the Wikipedia article on him is accurate, it sounds like he had been expected to retire from his anchor position at MSNBC after the 2020 election anyway (he would have been turning 75 at that point); his sudden resignation in March of that year just hastened it.
Sometimes I always like to tell employees is that nothing they say will get someone in trouble. People get in trouble beacuse of the things they do not because of what you tell me.
Specifically, Bond and DePaulo (2006) conducted a meta-analysis regarding body language as a predictor of deceitful behaviour and found no relation between the two. In a separate meta-analysis conducted by Sporer and Schwandt (2007), twelve observable behaviours, including eye blinking, gaze aversion, postural shifts, hand movements, etc., were reviewed, and none were found to be correlated with deception. Three additional studies conducted by Wiseman et al. (2012) evaluated whether eye movement is a useful predictor of lying, with all three concluding it was not a useful predictor at all.
Numerous executives across corporations have also been cancelled, meaning they lost their jobs due to inappropriate actions they took towards co-workers leveraging their positions.
It’s not just executives. Businesses increasingly don’t tolerate inappropriate behavior at all. They don’t want to deal with the cost of lawsuits, the effect on the working environment, and the loss of experience and skill. A single crude joke probably won’t get people fired but there are many more serious infractions which can’t be ignored anymore. Executives have the means to fight accusations whether they are true or not, their employees usually don’t.
Okay, I read a bit more, and now I know: Spacey was fired from House of Cards because of his behavior on HoC. The first, outside accusation prompted people on HoC to speak up about what happened to them. So…another case where there was more to the story than “one” accusation. Again, I’m glad to be wrong.
I have a bizarre side bar relating to HR and “harassment”. Back in the late 1980’s I had a friend who had a bizarre sense of humor, who had a calendar made where the picture was that of the rear of a horse (not close up). Asked about it he would tell us, there are plenty of horse’s asses around here,so I thought I’d “honor” them. Fine, whatever floats your boat. One day he got called into HR. He was told that someone hated his calendar, and that it was “sexually offensive”, and that it had to be taken down. His response was “someone finds that picture sexual, and you’re talking to me?” Under threat of termination he took it down, but felt he should have been allowed to know who complained so he could talk it out with them.
I never liked him as an actor. Does that count as a thought?
This seems like he was canceled because he was an alleged and now convicted criminal, not for #metoo. I don’t see how his case would apply here. Is it #metoo if he were convicted of murder, drunk driving, child pornography instead of rape/sexual assault?