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Drunkeness and Sexual Harassment Alleged At Microsoft UK
rtfa-troll writes "A picture of vodka fountains, indefinite amounts of Jaegermeister, and sexual harassment is emerging from Microsoft. The former second in command at Microsoft UK was accused of sexual misconduct involving at least five separate women. A Microsoft internal investigation was unable to prove the allegations but decided to fire Simon Negus for having 'behaved dishonestly, and thereby acted in a manner calculated or likely to destroy trust and confidence between him and Microsoft' and sue him £75k. Now Negus, who already has a new job as COO at Upstream Systems has struck back with a £10 million false dismissal suit alleging a culture of drunken parties and claiming that other (Male) management at Microsoft were so drunk they followed a female Microsoft UK manager into the ladies' lavatories. I guess we can now guess why senior managers go away to Microsoft vowing never to buy anything and come back with signed contracts; presumably it was just lying there next to them in the morning and they were too afraid to ask what happened."
Unless it's a small startup formed with people you're friends with, there's not much worse than a corporate culture of socially coerced "fun". Let's party with the boss!
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IT's a work function, you don't flirt. It' puts pressure on people because they are afraid to loose their job. And why are you overlooking the part where he kept touching them inappropriately?
"course weared sexy short skirts and shirts that highlights their boobs.
ah. You are blaming victims so yu can not feel guilt about seeing women as sex objects.
Why would you company a women leg to a penis...I mean my penis* could be confused with a leg, but not most others.
"Do women hate sex?"
Just with you.
"They do, but do you know why? "
no, they don't.
" Women hate sex simply because they are lousy at it."
ah, the blaming of women for your own sexual inadequacy.
You are a sociopath. A dangerous one.
*ob. lrg penis joke.
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It depends. There are plenty of women who enjoy sex. But they are easily painted off as whores.
Or there are women who confuse sex with love and get hurt all the time after someone just "played them", so they choose not to get burned anymore.
Then there are the women who fuse sex with love and don't give their body unless they're in a loving relationship and feel a connection.
For men sex is a whole different kind of thing. And flirting and such serves another purpose or goal for each sex.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
If you get high enough up in a company, you can do whatever you want, get in whatever trouble you want, and some smaller company will always hire you. Another recent(ish?) example I can think of is Mark Hurd from HP, Oracle immediately gave him a job.
The old boys club. It's killing industry worldwide.
Nope, it's the reward for building a ladder of other people's bodies to climb your way to the top.
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Why doesn't this ever happen at companies I work at? The places I've worked suck the sex drive out, along with motivation, sense of self-preservation and sometimes even the desire to breathe.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.