A few days later I was advised that I was accused of sexual harassment in the form of inappropriate touching during work? I was flabbergasted. I had to sign a written statement in which I categorically denied all charges.
Management was required to conduct a investigation because of the nature of the charges
The rest of the crew were interviewed and the basic response was they never saw anything inappropriate in word or deed and couldn’t figure what all this was about. The work site was in full public view at all times and you never were alone with any one person.
I was further grilled by a management team as to my side of the story. At this point I was PO’ed but kept my cool. One of the spineless managers suggested I apologize in the interests of keeping the peace. I refused and said I would never apologize for something I never did. I was advised they would continue to look into it and let me know what they decided on.
I later mentioned the situation to another co-worker. This fellow happened to be gay and he immediately came up with my
accusers name and said she had accused him of the same thing only in his case the managers thought it was humorous and ridiculous on the face of it.
I later found out she was trying to get promoted and had accused numerous people of sexual harassment. It looked like her plan was to make management afraid to deny her a promotion lest she accused them of sexual harassment
She was sent back to her sector and I never worked with her again. All reports at my work site of various harassment and improprieties ceased.
> She was sent back to her sector and I never worked with her again.
I wish that you could write that she never worked again.
People like that should be summarily FIRED on the first offense and given bad job references to assure they don’t burn anybody else.