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Behind Davos, Claims of a Toxic Workplace; Despite its lofty goals, the World Economic Forum has faced numerous accusations of sexual harassment and discrimination against women and Black people
Wall Street Journal via MSN ^ | July2, 2024 | Shalini Ramachandran, Khadeeja Safdar

Posted on 07/07/2024 7:58:53 PM PDT by DoodleBob

…But under Schwab’s decadeslong oversight, the Forum has allowed to fester an atmosphere hostile to women and Black people in its own workplace, according to internal complaints, email exchanges and interviews with dozens of current and former Forum employees and other people familiar with the Forum’s practices.

Since the Forum’s earliest years, staffers say women received warnings about Schwab: If you find yourself alone with him, he may make uncomfortable comments about your appearance. They describe his behavior as more awkward than menacing, but inappropriate for a leader…(A) European staffer, who worked in Geneva in the 2000s, said Schwab never crossed the line to physical contact with her, but that his pattern of suggestive remarks and behavior was “a horrible thing as a woman to go through.” Once, she said, he propped his leg up on her desk with his crotch in front of her face and told her he wished she was Hawaiian because he’d like to see her in a Hawaiian costume.

Old timers at the Forum said Schwab liked to hire attractive people, who typically staffed the annual event at Davos. Former Forum executives said the situation was ripe for sexual harassment and that several staffers complained to them about inappropriate behavior by partners. There was even a term for sexual contact between VIPs and Forum staffers, said a former employee: “white on blue action,” for the color of badges worn by the two parties.

When another boss, Roberto Bocca, a current senior executive, berated her and called her a “bitch” on a team call when she asked a question, she said human resources brushed it off that he was just “Italian and very passionate.” The Forum said the Bocca situation was looked into and addressed appropriately, and the harsh language wasn’t reported.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: klausschwab; toxicworkplace; wef
I am shocked….A globalist organization run by Europeans doesn’t abide by its own messaging, brushing it off as “passion.” Whoda thunk?

Before you know it, the media will be claiming that Biden is good only between 10am and 4pm.

1 posted on 07/07/2024 7:58:53 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet, peons. /S


2 posted on 07/07/2024 8:04:12 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: DoodleBob
I'm of two minds on how to respond.

On the one hand, I do believe these people pay lip service to the whole diversity cultism. It's something they say, not something they believe.

On the other hand, I also believe special "protected" groups look for reasons to say they've been aggrieved even if they haven't.

3 posted on 07/07/2024 8:04:12 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: DoodleBob

Don’t forget. Black people are amongst the “little people of flyover country”.


4 posted on 07/07/2024 8:18:37 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: All

They hate ALL of us peasants. But ones with more melanin even worse.


5 posted on 07/07/2024 8:20:05 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: DoodleBob

Mess with Satan get the horns.


6 posted on 07/07/2024 8:23:50 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: DoodleBob

Of course. They’re just a bunch of miserable sinners like the rest of us.
I think it was C. S. Lewis who said “no clever arrangement of bad eggs will produce a
good omelet.”


7 posted on 07/07/2024 9:08:57 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: DoodleBob

Oh my. How shocking. My surprised/shocked face....😴😴😴😴


8 posted on 07/07/2024 9:56:53 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: DoodleBob

You vill own nothink und you vill be happy in your Hawaiian outfit. Und do not forget to eat ze bugs!


9 posted on 07/07/2024 10:06:25 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: DoodleBob

LOL! Too rich! Literally and figuratively!


10 posted on 07/08/2024 12:10:49 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: DoodleBob

Dictatorial leadership..what could possibly be the problem.


11 posted on 07/08/2024 4:57:30 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: DoodleBob

And, this surprises who? Oh, the base with an IQ < 85. Yeah, got it.


12 posted on 07/08/2024 5:18:53 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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“…hostile to women and Black people in its own workplace, according to internal complaints,“

It isn’t possible to have any complaints against white guys so who the hell else would be bitching?


13 posted on 07/08/2024 5:53:34 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: DoodleBob

Shocking. 🙄


14 posted on 07/08/2024 5:55:48 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Pray for President Trump. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: TalBlack

Other than against white guys


15 posted on 07/08/2024 5:55:59 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: DoodleBob

Davos: women and people of color suffer most.


16 posted on 07/08/2024 5:58:23 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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