Posted on 05/17/2019 11:10:12 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility
LeanIn.org and SurveyMonkey’s new #MentorHer poll reveals Friday that 60% of male managers report feeling “too nervous” about being accused of harassment to interact with women in “common workplace” activities such as mentoring, socializing and one-on-one meetings.
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And they wonder why this is happening?
Another thread about this? I already said what I thought. Except the part that a group called lean in is involved in the survey and actually leaning in might be construed as sexual harassment.
Rob Bailey-Millado
Seems like a dude with a hyphenated last name would be a perfect mentor.
Years ago-I think it was the president of Boston Coll, who was interviewed about a suit brought against the coll. A woman said she was kept out of a posit because of gender/race.
He said: ‘It cost us about a half a million dollars to keep an unqualified woman out of a 30K a year job.’
You can bet the cost was passed along to students in the form of increased tuition. In the end WE ALL have to pay for this idiocy
This was completely predictable. The left strikes and fails for women again.
Clarence Thomas learned this lesson when his loony female underling stalked him from job to job, and then she claimed harassment after Thomas married another woman.
Liberal women anyway. Stay away from them.
One of the insidious problems with the work environment today is this. If a person has been slacking off and knows they are likely to be terminated, all they have to do is file a formal complaint and they become golden.
From that point you can’t touch them without exposing yourself to all sorts of litigation from them, from the state, from the federal government.
* Don't mentor her - go to jail.
* Mentor her and she levels a false accusation that you leered at her or touched her arm - go to jail.
Ain't modern America grand?
Not afraid.
Just not willing to take such a personal and professional risk. And any smart guy concerned about his future should never consider doing so.
Some laws are necessary, I.E. the first ten handed down by Moses.
Most are not.
But, by far, my favorite. Is the law of unintended consequences.
A person who is faced with a situation where he knows damn well that he is not operating on fair, objective terms will naturally go to great lengths to avoid that situation. And it really doesn't matter if the unfairness is tied to political reasons, legal machinations, or just a plain old PR situation where a bunch of cackling misfits are clamoring about "sexual harassment" during a nomination hearing for a Supreme Court nominee.
Women can thank every stunted mutant in a position of authority who uttered a variation of the term "Women must be believed!" for their predicament here.
By the time I left my last position in corporate management, I wouldn't mentor a female employee to save her life.
Back in my past life, I had an open door policy regarding mentoring. I would open the door and leave it open until the conversation was over. No closed door conversations, even with my wife who worked in another building. I had seen how fast HR would side with the woman and fire you on the basis of accusations founded or not.
I did have an HR complaint filed against me about five years ago that was quite disconcerting. I like taking the stairways over the elevators when I can so I was walking up a fight of stairs when one of my direct reports was coming downstairs. We stopped and had a short conversation work-related about an account she was working on. Thought nothing of it.
Next thing I know, I'm on the phone with HR getting grilled about the whole episode. Turns out that the she phoned in to say that I started a conversation with her in a dark, secluded stairway and that she felt intimidated and frightened. Blew me away because it was such an innocent encounter from my standpoint. We both stopped, had a conversation about work, and then moved on.
While no action was taken and the employee apologized to me later for her overreaction to the situation, I felt like a cloud was over me for a while there. I have no doubt that if another random complaint came in from somebody else, no matter how minor, they would have marched me out of the building.
When you deal with men demographically rather than individually this is what happens.
Some of the statements by some women concerning men in general have probably energized an inner type of avoidance radar system. And rather than dealing with a toxic female in the workplace they just don’t have anything to do with any of them. It’s safer that way. And in the evenings the men can go home to their wives and families and have a normal evening of family time together.
I would never have forgiven her.
I might have told her that it was nothing, and that she was actually doing her duty in reporting the "incident" - but I would have never forgiven her.
Regards,
The most predictable outcome possible.
This has been an issue for decades now, but it is only made worse with each new round of MeToo-ish hysteria.
Alexander, forgiving is essential. Especially if one apologizes. Read Pilgrim’s Progress or Matthew 6:9-14.
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