Working for a large corporation I can’t tell you how common these things had been getting at one point.
I don’t know what happened here - I didn’t even read the article, but I can tell you for fact, but I know many people that have been accused of sexual harassment that did nothing, not even a dirty joke.
And sadly, a lot of times, they come out of the short end of the stick.
As a man with a family and a lot to lose, I have become extremely meticulous in my interactions to the point I rarely, if ever, am alone with a female employee.
During performance evaluations I take extra measures to assure nothing can be said.
The fear many of us have is if you give someone a bad evaluation or have to terminate them, they come back at you with a harassment suit that can ruin your life and career. So you are alert at all times.
The funny thing though is that at least in the business world, it’s now the women that get rowdy, tell dirty jokes, say all kinds of crazy stuff, and we just basically have to sit there and bite our lips and sit on our hands.
I’ve had stuff said to me by females, that if I said to them, I’d get fired.