Posted on 11/09/2011 10:49:45 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
How ironic that Karen Kraushaar, whose identity became known only yesterday, called Herman Cain a serial denier.
It turns out that Kraushaar is a serial complainer, demanding money at a second employer for supposed inappropriate language, via AP:
A woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in 1999 complained three years later at her next job about unfair treatment, saying she should be allowed to work from home after a serious car accident and accusing a manager of circulating a sexually charged email, The Associated Press has learned.
To settle the complaint at the immigration service, Kraushaar initially demanded thousands of dollars in payment, a reinstatement of leave she used after the accident earlier in 2002, promotion on the federal pay scale and a one-year fellowship to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, according to a former supervisor familiar with the complaint. The promotion itself would have increased her annual salary between $12,000 and $16,000, according to salary tables in 2002 from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Kraushaar told the AP she considered her employment complaint “relatively minor” and she later dropped it.
What was the “sexually charged email”? According to AP:
The joke circulated online lists reasons men and women were like computers, including that men were like computers because “in order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.” Women were like computers because “even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.”
We still don’t know what Herman Cain allegedly said to Kraushaar that gave rise to her demand for money from the National Restaurant Association. But we do know why Kraushaar didn’t want her name public.
I’ve seen this movie before when I was in private law practice. There are certain people whose radar is up, like cats waiting for the mouse. And when they see an opportunity to cash in, they take it, and usually more than once. This quote from the AP story rings so true:
Kraushaar’s complaint at the immigration service prompted managers to use caution when writing and speaking to Kraushaar while the complaint was being investigated, another former supervisor told the AP. Two supervisors said Kraushaar asked a colleague to act as a witness when she had conversations with one manager after she filed her complaint.
It may be that Kraushaar had two valid complaints, or none. Now that she has gone public and wants a joint press conference, Kraushaar should consent to the NRA releasing its full file on her complaint.
What a dreadful woman she is turning out to be. I had no idea there were such crazy women out there in the workforce and I worked for 30 years in offices. Once in a while we had a nutty person but nothing like this!
Sexually charged?
Herm Cain should have come out yesterday saying that both Sharon and Karen should support his proposed 999 tax initiative so they would have more money in their pockets instead of trying to make money by slandering good people.
It’s time to do away with cubicles and have everyone work from home with an admin moderator for all email content!!!
That’ll teach the lechers,leeches and layabouts. Especially in the Federal bureaucracy.
I work in hospitals...mostly women working there.
I can't tell you how many crazy women I've run into....
I've said it many times in the past...( and have had many women agree with me )...if mostly men worked in hospitals...things would run more smooth, with less drama.
I always remember that Cindy Anthony - the awful mother of Casey Anthony - worked in a hospital. She had to be sent home several times because of all her drama.
She has a choice of two different VRE (Virginia Railway Express) stations ~ on two different VRE lines, and that's a backup option in case Metro has some sort of problem.
We have an awful lot of people like this CLUSTERED in several places.
Which is why I won't give anybody her address ~ besides she's supposed to have already hired a private guard. No need making that ol'boy any more paranoic than he is anyway.
So is Bieleck, she has a history at CBS Radio in Chicago.
They dO the complaint to set themselves up.
Can’t be fired or it’s retaliatory. So the complait insulates them fro
Firing due to incompetence.
Many years ago, circa 1973, I worked for a government agency during a time when miniskirts were popular. This black woman was angry with a blond, white man in our office because he got a promotion she wanted. She wore the shortest miniskirt possible and would deliberately lean over the desk in such a way that her rear was facing this man’s line of vision. Sexual harrassment laws were nonexistent back then, but if this was to happen today, he could have made a claim against HER. I was a witness to this, so I would have backed up his story.
Serial complainer. How would you like being married to her?!
Sounds like a habitual line-stepper, to me.
The funny part is, she proved the email right, because she did store that small mistake of sending out a joke email at work in her long-term memory for later use!
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