all I know is that in the last 2 years I've worked for 2 FORTUNE 100 companies... at the first job a guy got fired for telling a dirty joke... as deemed it was sexual harassment..
at the other job a guy got fired for asking a woman out...
when the woman found out the guy was going to be fired, she argued in his defense saying she simply wanted him to understand NOT to ask her out again.... but still he was let go..
Let me ask you something. Do you thing what you have just described is RIGHT? I think it is horrifying. I had no idea that it is that bad.
I have practiced at a leading law firm and at served at a high level at an investment bank that might have serviced your company (before forming my own firm), but it was nowhere near that bad there. Of course there are sexual harassment standards, but nothing like what you are describing.
You are describing a new inquisition. If this is true, why do we not rise up in rebellion? What you describe is utterly outrageous, unfair, and unsupportable.
Any company that dismissed me on grounds you described would be facing millions in damages and I would be pursuing them until I died.
Consider the victory of the Miller Brewing exec. He won 8 figures on facts similar to what you describe.
While I think that sexual harassment is a real evil, and sexual harassment remedies for women are very important, I also think the law as it exists now, in half formed state, is subject to grotesque abuse. In other words, its a bit of a lottery. Some companies have chosen to adopt the most extreme possible interpretations as their private "law", and met out punishment accordingly.
Don't just accept injustice. Fight it. I had already thought that this was the new McCarthyism, the area of greatest over-zealotry. But you have reinforced that view.
Doug |
