Cain accuser filed complaint at next job (Kraushaar)

AP/CBS ^ | 11/9/11

[markomalley]

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.

Karen Kraushaar, 55, filed the complaint while working as a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Justice Department in late 2002 or early 2003, with the assistance of her lawyer, Joel Bennett, who also handled her earlier sexual harassment complaint against Cain in 1999. Three former supervisors familiar with Kraushaar's complaint, which did not include a claim of sexual harassment, described it for the AP under condition of anonymity because the matter was handled internally by the agency and was not public.

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.

[plangent]

or working strictly with women.

You obviously haven't tried this. This is the worst of all possible outcomes because they fight like hell-cats.

What we have here sounds like a serial accuser and I'd bet that an open review of her personnel file at Treasury shows it littered with similar behaviour problems.

Once they think they can game the system, it never stops.

[LyinLibs]

“Once [serial accusers] think they can game the system, it never stops.”

UNTIL they run smack into the CAIN TRAIN!

[gov_bean_ counter]

General rule of thumb...

Two women in the same office is one too many.

[palmer]

Kraushaar provided seven such letters of recommendation to show that her performance was commendable while working at the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the restaurant association and the immigration service.

I'd like to know when they were written. Sometimes they are written when you want to get rid of someone.

[sneakers]

Wrong David Axelrod

[gov_bean_ counter]

Letters of recommendation??? Pffftttt.

I rather see the performance appraisals...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I've known women you couldn't say good morning to without them assuming it was a proposition. It can turn a workplace into pure hell.

[BTCM]

She would still find a way to invade your wallet.

[Safetgiver]

I rather see the performance appraisals... It’s about the same thing. I had an employee who had no idea of what he was doing, how to do it and thought industrial hygiene meant douching. I heard he wanted a lateral transfer and I wrote the most false, glowing performance reports on him to get rid of him. It worked and his new manager didn’t talk to me up to retirement.

[sevinufnine]

Yes, looks can be deceiving.

Says she complained she didn’t get to work from home, but seems healthy enough to work her horses doesn’t she?

Also, she wanted her days she took from work for the accident to be FREE/reinstated. WTF???? Thin skinned and easily offended...that’s all that woman is. She even complained about a “sexually explicit” email comparing men/women to computers. I can only imagine how petty THAT was.

As a woman myself, I cannot stand to work around 90% of them. Petty, gossipy, and plain stupid most of the time. I work mainly with men. My current IT job of Infrastructure there are 6 in my immediate team...I’m the only girl. On the team on a larger scale there are about 40. Only 4 of us are women. I LOVE it.

[SueRae]

Oh, here we go. A sexually charged e-mail?

Who among us hasn’t received (or forwarded) an off-color email joke? I have received one or two that crossed the line and merely deleted them. Only on one occassion did I say something to the indidividual who sent it, essentiallly telling him that one went too far. Our company has very strict interpretation of all ethics complaints. The individual can say something to the offender but has the option to immediately report a complaint to the ethics officer (yes, we have one). Most would choose to handle something lise this ‘locally’. But there are always a few hypersensitive types that wouldn’t hesitate to claim ‘victim’ if given the chance.

[sevinufnine]

By the way...love your screen name. C.S. Lewis is my favorite author. Think I read the Chronicles 9 times through as a kid...and then at least once through to both my children.

[sevinufnine]

By the way...love your screen name. C.S. Lewis is my favorite author. Think I read the Chronicles 9 times through as a kid...and then at least once through to both my children.

[sevinufnine]

By the way...love your screen name. C.S. Lewis is my favorite author. Think I read the Chronicles 9 times through as a kid...and then at least once through to both my children.

[SueRae]

And sadly, it would likely be a huge hit. After all, think Jersey Shore..

[C210N]

Typical, these people make their lives filing complaints.

In college, I recall a guy, probably an English major, who wrote an extremely well-written with wit and flair letter to Drake's complaining that he bought a Devil Dog with no creme. To my best recollection, I believe they sent him a case of Devil Dogs. My point is there is a mentality in some people, and this example is evidence of how it might begin, in getting everything for nothing in life.

Story two - I heard of a couple that get EVERYTHING for free by complaining. An example was they painted their house, and then complained and harassed the paint company for a refund - for a chip or peel here or there. They wound up writing a book about getting thru life like this!

So, I went to amazon to report more on this apparent parasitic subculture:

How to Sue Everyone: Ready-to-Use Legal Letters to Terrorize Friends & Family [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

How To Complain For Fun And Profit: The Best Guide Ever To Writing Complaint Letters. [Paperback]

[dforest]

No, we found out yesterday that the Bialek woman lived in the building a while ago with the Obama Axlerod and saw him in the building gym all the time.

Don’t get it confused withthe one Malkin was talking about.

[radu]

Any credibility this woman might have had just got shot out of the water, as far as I’m concerned.

I’m glad to see some in the LSM are bringing up these things. A lot of folks hearing this stuff don’t bother to do their own research online.
Even CNN mentioned that though they’re saying she’s a registered Republican, she’s only donated to the DNC.

[Puddleglum]

thanks - I loved the character Puddleglum from “Silver Chair” he was as grumbly and skeptical as I am. And he was right most of the time! I seen too many circuses come through town - I am continually amazed at how gullible people are these days (especially your typical “D” voter).

[mazda77]

I am beginning to wonder if the horse was ever served with a complaint.