Guys, be real, asking someone who you are the boss of to be a surrogate puts them in a compromised position. You are their boss, not just some friend or associate.
Doing it once would be a teachable moment, doing it multiple times? Definitely shows poor judgement.
No it’s not sexual harassment in terms of wanting sex but it does put employees in an inappropriate position because of their gender.
I completely agree, putting this in the same class as what Conyers and Franken were doing is crazy, but to say this guy should not have known better and that what he did was “nothing” is disingenuous as well.
This whole thing is wrong but you naysayers are right about one thing; it was his decision to make and he made it to quit rather than fight this nonsense. Politico had a fair write-up.
In a lengthy statement, Franks said he wanted to take “full and personal responsibility for the ways I have broached a topic that, unbeknownst to me until very recently, made certain individuals uncomfortable.” He said he and his wife had “long struggled with infertility” and gone through three miscarriages. They tried to adopt children multiple times, only to have the birth mothers renege before giving birth.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/07/trent-franks-expected-to-resign-286967