Well, we had seen cases of this type before that wound up being made up. Anita Hill, for instance.
Gretchen also had a reputation for being thin-skinned.
That said, she evidently had the goods on Ailes. I heard she had clandestinely recorded some of his inappropriate behavior.
That’s the thing to do whenever you need the job but the boss is an a$$hole. Document, document, document. Because when the s41t hits the fan, it’ll be your word against his, and documentation is the only thing that stands up in court against armies of your boss’s lawyers.
I had a boss one time that hated me and was always out to get me. I gave as good as I got but boy was it tiring. He told me one time he had set up a meeting for us with his supervisor (who was also a p&*ck) to discuss ‘things’. I took a tape recorder in and set it on the desk and said....you don’t mind if I record this do you? haha Meeting was very nice and went really well. lol
He also knew that if he said anything out of the way in the meeting that I would bring up something totally inappropriate he had said to me. ;)