'Sup seems to wet himself every time he thinks I am fucking someone that works for me..... Yes it has happened in the past.... I used to own clubs and anyone in the club or restaraunt business will attest to the number of hookups that occur.....
but I found out a few years ago how incredibly difficult it really is in Texas to find an attorney willing to take a Workplace Harassment Case.
I was working as a Sales Manager at a local Car Dealership
A young lady had went through training and hit the floor with the right attitude but one of the Desk Managers was incredibly old fashioned in his thought process and rode her hard.
He would make her go on lunch runs, coffee runs and snack runs and insisted in telling her the nastiest jokes at times.... He brought her to tears more than once.....
Then came the sexual innuendo..... telling her if she was willing to "learn the right techniques" he could help her close some deals.... give her better "ups"....
When one of the guys snaked her on the lot and she went to the desk to mention it he grabbed his crotch and told her where she could find an "up".....
I left due to the Pay Plan with another guy and we parked at another dealership and tried to get her to come over....
Right before she was going to make the change the desk guy grabbed her..... pulled her into his lap and groped her.....
She quit...... She told her story in the exit interview and they fired the manager.
Both myself and the other guy had witnessed much of what occurred and were willing to back her.... I made several calls and set up a couple of appointments for her with lawyers that supposedly specialized in that kind of stuff.....
Unless she was willing to pay a retainer we could not find anyone to help her.....
The lawyers basically all said the same thing
1) They needed her to find other women that it had happened to to show it to be more a pattern than an isolated incident that could be twisted to be blamed in some way on her.... If there were not others then they didn't want to waste the time.....
2) The company was too large and had a huge corporate legal staff that would tie it up for a long time..... They knew it was going to be a lot more than writing a letter and making a settlement..... So they wanted a retainer..... $10K would cover it.....
Everyone was sorry and agreed she had been wronged but no one wanted to touch it....
On TV lawyers litigate... In real world they sit at their desks, write letters, posture and settle.....
Not all of them.... but many of them..... Once again.. these are MY opinions...
When they WILL go after someone they want deep pockets and easy insurance pay outs......
I understand why some people worry about it..... In the corporate environment they worry about everything and most guys around here are PROBABLY employees.....
I own my business..... the buck stops at me..... It is set up in a manner that it's not much of a target for any kind of suit...... If some stripper I've banged a couple of times comes in for a couple of weeks at her leisure to do some work and earn a few extra bucks and ends up on or under my desk.... personally.... I'm not really all that worried about it.....
OK 'Sup..... there you go... dig out you legal dictionary and have at it.....