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OK, I agree with the personal/professional split point you touched. Though there is a significant power imbalance, often people are attracted to power/their pow
by bitL 8y ago
OK, I agree with the personal/professional split point you touched. Though there is a significant power imbalance, often people are attracted to power/their powerful superiors, and that is a direct threat to workplace stability, maybe even safety, though not as directly as unwanted advances. Still, even if you categorize this as "wanted advances" due to the aforementioned attraction to superior for whatever complex reason, it could be viewed as both a hack in progress from the superior to the person they find attractive and also as a way for the subordinate to improve their standing within the company without any merit. That might be even more demoralizing to a large group of employees than a single instance of a sexual harassment to a single person and termination would be absolutely justified.
- asianthrowaway 8y agoI think you're being way too cynical. No doubt there exists "gold diggers" who will try to seduce their way up the dominance hierarchy, but that is a different topic. And even then, I fail to see how the unfair promotion of a "gold digger" would be more dangerous than having a manager sexually abusing his subordinates. I mean heck, Bill Gates met Melinda when she was a Microsoft employee and they've now been married 20+ years.