Posted on 08/29/2010 12:17:46 PM PDT by grace522
As head of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, Carl R. Greene presided over a workplace of fear.
For women, his subordinates say, there could be ogling, groping, and pressure for sex.
For men and women alike, there were insults and humiliation.
"You're stupid. You're lazy. I can't believe your parents wasted college education on you," Greene yelled at one young aide, she recalled. "I can't believe you're so incompetent."
She left his sixth-floor office in tears, mascara streaming down her cheeks.
Greene called out after her, telling his assistant: "Fix her up. Get her some makeup. I don't want her to leave the office looking like that."
That was the world that Greene created within PHA. While menacing public housing towers were imploded across Philadelphia, careers were ruined inside PHA's headquarters on 23d Street in Center City.
"I've never worked somewhere where I've seen so many professionals crying," said one former PHA executive.
Greene, once hailed as one of the nation's top public housing directors, was suspended last week amid disclosures that PHA had agreed to pay at least $900,000 to settle four sexual-harassment complaints filed against him.
The agency's five board members are investigating whether Greene hid the payouts from them. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has ordered an immediate audit of PHA operations, and the U.S. Attorney's Office, working with the FBI and the HUD inspector general, has launched a criminal probe.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
<I believe it’s especially prevalent in black culture and within black families.
You need to re-examine your belief system.
Sexual harassment is not the province of blacks; plenty of white guys get sued or reprimanded for sexual harassment, especially when women first went into male-dominated workplaces for the first time.
While liberals have done a pretty good job of replacing the black family structure with the government, the black family culture does not encourage or support sexual harassment.
How did he not get shot?
My comments specifically addressed the “humiliation” portion of Green’s reported actions, not the sexual harassment portion.
Rendell probably got to share some of Carl Greene’s conquests after Greene was finished with them...
I apologize if I did not make that clear.
Anyone still think the gummint can provide charity?
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