She ended up feeling totally shunned and left for another job. Years later I ran into her at a social occasion. She tried to be friendly.
I said nothing!
Something similar happened to me (or should I say, to me and others) many years ago. I will preface by saying that I was young, stupid and single, I was the new guy in the office and didn't know what I was getting myself into, and the new rules of feminist correctness hadn't been set in concrete yet. But the first lawsuits had been successful -- and most employers had abruptly become hypersensitive and paranoid.
I complimented a young lady on the way she looked. Yeah, she was hot and she was wearing a short skirt. There wasn't anything raunchy or inappropriate about what I said, or the way I said it. I think my exact words were, "You look nice in that dress." Within 30 minutes I was called in for a meeting ... with the senior vice president and corporation counsel.
She had mentioned it to her supervisor immediately, and they were giving me a friendly but firm warning to leave her alone. It seems she had baited a supervisor into having a year-long affair with her. When it ended she claimed that she was forced into it, and sued the company. He was really great at his job, a very popular and effective small group leader and he was screaming like hell that she set him up, so they defended him.
Eventually there was a settlement. He got to keep his job and there was 11% unemployment, so it was a significant partial victory. But he was demoted and they had to promise that as long as she worked there, he'd never be promoted again. And of course she got a cash settlement of about $50,000. All this was history when I got hired, but it was very recent history.
From the moment I left that meeting, I actually started a shunning campaign much like the one you've described. She was just trouble. I found out that none of the women liked her either. In most cases they had really like the guy she had baited and then sued. And of course I became friends with him as well. After a while nobody, male or female, would even talk to this woman except work-related stuff.
Of course she complained to management and they couldn't do a damn thing about it. I doubt that they would have done anything even if they could. Eventually I was promoted and became her boss. The wall around her got higher and higher. Late one afternoon after everybody else had left for the day, I happened to be getting a cup of coffee and that senior VP walked into the break room. We had a friendly chat, her name came up, and the shunning campaign was mentioned. He didn't say anything about it. He COULDN'T say anything about it. But the look in his eyes told me that he approved.
About a year after that first "You look nice in that dress" remark, she couldn't handle it any more and quit. Eventually I moved on to bigger and better things. Years and years later, after I was married, I ran into her at a restaurant and she looked like ten years of crack whoring had taken their toll.
She said that she had heard I was working for a certain company (major manufacturer, good reputation, great money) and expressed her opinion that there was no way they'd hire somebody like me. I didn't say anything. I just smiled and showed her my company ID.
Burn.
In four decades of gub'mnt work I never once told a female, or a male, employee that they looked nice ~ had relatives who worked for the feds before ~ mostly in police-like work ~ they knew the deal.
Any criticisms you make of women must be directed at those at some remove ~ for example, Pelosi's beard, Debbie Wasserman Shulz's frizzy hair, etc.
Great story! Often we read about the havoc these people wreak, and we don’t often read about how at least some of them get what they deserve years down the road.
“From the moment I left that meeting, I actually started a shunning campaign much like the one you’ve described. She was just trouble.”
I used to work at a large company - had a gal just like that. I could tell she was bad news from the start when they hired her and would be VERY short in any conversations and to the point (she was our secretary so had to deal with her). Yes she was cute and dress nice and flirt, but it was just too much. A year later she ended up having a quick affair with my boss, sued, etc. Boss lost his job, etc.