so, there's been a bit of a roundup/shakedown/purging in the upper echelons of management the past few days. It's been awhile in coming, but no one expected it to be so drastic, or so sudden. even it does poor service as a lesson or warning, it's at least entertainment enough to make it all the way up and down the rumor-grapevine and keep the gossipers buzzing.
scenario:
key in on our protagonist - a young, upper-level manager, who is the married father of two - deals poorly with flirting, is seduced by one of his employees. for all we know, it was true love at first sight, but from a corporation's perspective - it's entirely irrelevant. he commences an affair with this ravishing young fresh-out-of-college beauty, whose looks alone guarantee talk. words like scandalous, ladder-climbing, gold-digging are tossed fast and furious around the cafeteria table - but as of yet, they are only words; no weight, no substance
catalyst:
company outing onboard a day-liner. drinks are cheap, not to mention the two free vouchers each attendee is provided with. young damsel (aka ravishing beauty) finds herself consuming liquor a litte too rapidly, and in her inebriated state decides she has the uncontrollable urge to satiate a long-standing grudge. openly, in broad dayilght, among a hundred other employees, managers, hell a few board-members - she strolls up to our aforementinoed young manager, gives him a good smack, and unleashes a very vocal, very vivid, very descriptive stream of curses and incomprehendable insults. everyone is too much in shock to accomplish anything past open-mouthed stares. a more perceptive, more capable site director somehow manages to draw everyone's attention again to the party, but the damage is done.
climax:
several days after the event, the initial shock has died down, and young, STUPID, manager decides it is in his best interest to offer ravishing beauty a promotion. some men buy their women diamonds, others do flowers - this charming young idiot does no less than a new paygrade. obviously, the promotion is unwarranted, and there are many others in line with both ability and seniority that feel no small distaste at the move. some are downright furious, and a number (the investigation later mentions FORTY PEOPLE) make their way to HR and file a complaint about the pair, under the pretense of a sexual harassment complaint. citing the outing as an example, they state on the record that the ravishing beauty's verbal ejaculate contained a number of profane, derrogatory comments - and they would not feel comfortable at all working under her. Obviously, an investigation ensues.
conclusion:
ravishing beauty is fired, escorted out. young manager is fired, escorted out. those are givens: here's where it gets juicy ? associate director is fired, escorted out - the people in question were under him, yet he made no attempt to intervene, as was his contractual duty. site director is fired, escorted out ? same reason, on a bigger scale. investigation turns into literally a witch hunt, as more 'victims' of sexual harassment come forward during this purging of sorts, and point accusing fingers at supposed persecutors that more often than not, happen to be co-workers in direct competition with them, vying for the same promotion. but hey, who am i to judge?
End result:
no less than 8 people are fired. 1 director, 1 associate director, 2 managers, 1 scientist, 1 validation specialist, 1 technician, and 1 custodian (i think, something like that) are walked out the door. their belongings are boxed FOR THEM (never heard of this). it's a giant mess, that particular department is in chaos, and HR is performing some giant audit/sweep where they are extending an open invitation for people to come and report further incidences "where you felt uncomfortable in any way". I'm thinking about going forward and complaining about the 'diarrhea incident' that occurred to me recently after I consumed several bottles of milk, without interruption, over the course of a 1 hour period. Maybe I can get a few of those damn Sodexho bastards out of here for allowing me to purchase so many bottles- they're always giving me the bad eye whenever i tell them to make my monte cristo without onions.
CLIFFS:
manager has affair with woman under him
woman flips out at outing, causes big scene
HR goes on witch hunt
manager, woman fired immediately
6 others axed as collateral damage
everyone is in fear now - we're back to 30 minute lunches and on-the-dot punctuality
fvck HR, i'm going home.
scenario:
key in on our protagonist - a young, upper-level manager, who is the married father of two - deals poorly with flirting, is seduced by one of his employees. for all we know, it was true love at first sight, but from a corporation's perspective - it's entirely irrelevant. he commences an affair with this ravishing young fresh-out-of-college beauty, whose looks alone guarantee talk. words like scandalous, ladder-climbing, gold-digging are tossed fast and furious around the cafeteria table - but as of yet, they are only words; no weight, no substance
catalyst:
company outing onboard a day-liner. drinks are cheap, not to mention the two free vouchers each attendee is provided with. young damsel (aka ravishing beauty) finds herself consuming liquor a litte too rapidly, and in her inebriated state decides she has the uncontrollable urge to satiate a long-standing grudge. openly, in broad dayilght, among a hundred other employees, managers, hell a few board-members - she strolls up to our aforementinoed young manager, gives him a good smack, and unleashes a very vocal, very vivid, very descriptive stream of curses and incomprehendable insults. everyone is too much in shock to accomplish anything past open-mouthed stares. a more perceptive, more capable site director somehow manages to draw everyone's attention again to the party, but the damage is done.
climax:
several days after the event, the initial shock has died down, and young, STUPID, manager decides it is in his best interest to offer ravishing beauty a promotion. some men buy their women diamonds, others do flowers - this charming young idiot does no less than a new paygrade. obviously, the promotion is unwarranted, and there are many others in line with both ability and seniority that feel no small distaste at the move. some are downright furious, and a number (the investigation later mentions FORTY PEOPLE) make their way to HR and file a complaint about the pair, under the pretense of a sexual harassment complaint. citing the outing as an example, they state on the record that the ravishing beauty's verbal ejaculate contained a number of profane, derrogatory comments - and they would not feel comfortable at all working under her. Obviously, an investigation ensues.
conclusion:
ravishing beauty is fired, escorted out. young manager is fired, escorted out. those are givens: here's where it gets juicy ? associate director is fired, escorted out - the people in question were under him, yet he made no attempt to intervene, as was his contractual duty. site director is fired, escorted out ? same reason, on a bigger scale. investigation turns into literally a witch hunt, as more 'victims' of sexual harassment come forward during this purging of sorts, and point accusing fingers at supposed persecutors that more often than not, happen to be co-workers in direct competition with them, vying for the same promotion. but hey, who am i to judge?
End result:
no less than 8 people are fired. 1 director, 1 associate director, 2 managers, 1 scientist, 1 validation specialist, 1 technician, and 1 custodian (i think, something like that) are walked out the door. their belongings are boxed FOR THEM (never heard of this). it's a giant mess, that particular department is in chaos, and HR is performing some giant audit/sweep where they are extending an open invitation for people to come and report further incidences "where you felt uncomfortable in any way". I'm thinking about going forward and complaining about the 'diarrhea incident' that occurred to me recently after I consumed several bottles of milk, without interruption, over the course of a 1 hour period. Maybe I can get a few of those damn Sodexho bastards out of here for allowing me to purchase so many bottles- they're always giving me the bad eye whenever i tell them to make my monte cristo without onions.
CLIFFS:
manager has affair with woman under him
woman flips out at outing, causes big scene
HR goes on witch hunt
manager, woman fired immediately
6 others axed as collateral damage
everyone is in fear now - we're back to 30 minute lunches and on-the-dot punctuality
fvck HR, i'm going home.
j/k
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