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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (7974)	10/8/1998 11:39:00 AM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

pezz - "If they are secure intelligent women it won't bother them." You'd better spend a little time with your attorney before you spout that one off in your office some time. "Don't you think that two people working in the same office can become attracted to one another without career advancing motives? " Sure can. But if one of them is married or one of them works as a subordinate of the other, they're putting the company at a huge risk. Someone who is engaged in an extramarital affair is subject to inordinate pressure to keep it quiet and is easily compromised into making truly stupid decisions (i.e., Bill Clinton). Someone who is having a relationship with a subordinate is foolish and is not qualified to make sound business judgements about his or her subordinates because of the influence of the relationship. This stuff is so fundamental that it is alarming you haven't been sued yet. The "atmosphere" you may have already created in your business can be used by plaintiffs as evidence for why you refused to take action against someone who is (or was) participating in making the work environment "hostile." Secondly, many of these kinds of relationships don't last - and the resulting personal animosity between the parties is poisonous to the working environment. Wow. I had hoped we had advanced beyond this level as more and more women became managers. Mr. K.