Any man in a position that meets one on one with any woman is in jeopardy at any time in the future. Any allegation presented by a woman is accepted as gospel and there is no defense.
BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS WOMEN DO NOT LIE!
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Even that doesn’t really matter. You can spend years working never to get stuck alone with anyone you don’t trust, and then someone could still claim impropriety regardless. If it’s a lie, it’s a lie either way, whether you were alone with them and nothing happened or if you were never alone with them but they still claim so. At the moment, the standards between the law and the court of public opinion are very very far apart.
I’m not saying that powerful men don’t get taken down by political hitjobs of false claims, nor am I suggesting that rich men don’t get sued for false by false allegations for out of court settlements (legal extortion), because that would be naive. But a lot of these guys currently in the spotlight are there because they have some major patterns... the kind that you can’t fake even with the most well orchestrated of conspiracies. Some men just treat women like crap. Karma takes time, sometimes.
The one thing that women CAN and do, is sleep their way to the top.
We have all had the misfortune of seeing an executive’s squeeze and up as a high level manager. Completely unfit for the role, and a nightmare to work for.
Can a man use his “wares” as currency for career advancement? I have never seen it happen....ever.
This coming year I will do performance evaluations of my female employees with another manager present in an open area. Simply for my own protection in the event that the female in question does not like her review.