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What do you know? It turns out that some people do actually get fired when news hits the tabloids of affairs with younger employees in the workplace. ESPN fired Baseball analyst Steve Phillips, less than a week after he admitted having an affair with a production assistant at the cable network.
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It didn't help, of course, that the 22-year-old production assistant started calling Phillips' wife, sent her a graphic letter about their involvement, and showed up in the family's Connecticut driveway in August after Phillips broke off the affair, according to police reports. Still, it makes you wonder: Why did ESPN fire Phillips, 46, when... Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (33) | Blog
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Hold on to your hat! Batten
down the hatches! Do whatever will prepare you for this
unbelievably shocking display of...ordinary life in the
American workplace. Yes, that's right, yet another late
night talk show host is dating a coworker, Read More »
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Blackmail. Revenge. Office romance. Infidelity. The Dave Letterman story has it all. A few allegations have been floating about suggesting that the genial comic hosted more than one late show at the Ed Sullivan Theater. We'll probably never know the full extent of what went on, but we can likely assume that a few of these allegations are factual and actual. And guess what? I'm really having a hard time seeing the overwhelming wrong in this perfect storm. Read More »
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In a shocking opening to the "Late Show" last night, David Letterman took nearly ten minutes to unravel the story of being extorted by a CBS employee, helping lead authorities to the suspect, and admitting to the Grand Jury, and now his audience, that the talk show host had sex with female employees.
Letterman eventually stated outright that the $2 million extortion threat included evidence of "creepy things" he'd done. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (133) | Blog
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Sexual harassment isn't about being chased around the desk anymore. It's about flirtation, subtle power plays, retaliation and, of course, text messages. When her hotel room phone rang at 2 a.m., Megan McFeely assumed it was an emergency.…
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Have men’s behavior towards women in the workplace evolved much, if at all, over the past 40 years? Click the hyperlink shown in the supporting links section to watch the video that inspired this post. I hesitated on posting this because of the general hyper-sexual nature that seemingly dominates… Read More »
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He has had some really s---ty relationships, he lost a girl he really loved. Then he was in an abusive/sexually harassing one and now he's... how to put this.... basically this girl told him lots of s--- about him not being good enough and being to small and this and that and all of this stuff… Read More »
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For good reason, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act got lots of attention last week, as President Barack Obama made it a point that the first piece of legislation he signed strenthened workers' ability to pursue in court equal pay for equal work. The bill overturned a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that denied Ledbetter's claim of sexual discrimination via lower paychecks because of when she filed the claim. But it was a good week for workers also because of a new Supreme Court decision. Read More »
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Having a guy shout, "I like
the way your tits bounce when you run" as I ran past is one of the
more offensive forms of street harassment I've experienced. This
incident happened during college, a time when I was also frequently
the recipient of whistles, honks, and comments from men passing by
in...
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