@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@nomless wrote:
IMO, It's wrong and dangerous for lives to be disrupted / ruined based only on allegations - which may or may not be true.
@nomless
Are you assuming that some woman comes along, says some man groped her 25 years ago, and their employer just says okay, we'll fire him?
It should be obvious that not ALL information is being made public. While you might think there's only one accuser, there may have been MANYcomplaints from women made over the years, and many reprimands that went unheeded, and the guy needs to get the boot.
You can also bet there were behind the scenes investigating and the corporate attorneys were brought in to discuss the findings. These firings don't just happen on a whim.
I agree. We are only getting info about the company's/station's actions, not the exact nature of the body of evidence. You can be sure that the corporate lawyers have vetted both the allegations and the rebuttals, since either side has the ability to sue the company. If a guy is getting let go, then there is a preponderance of credible and substantiated complaints to justify letting someone go. There's always going to be someone who will make a charge that is clearly financially or politically motivated right now in this climate, but they can normally be weeded out quickly.
As to them not being prosecuted, there are criminal statutes of limitations, so some can't be criminally charged. Others, like Weinstein, have apparently had investigations quashed by well-placed donations (e.g. to Vance).
Also, we are finally in the midst of a sea change among women where we are finally realizing that we don't have to put up silently with that kind of behavior from male superiors and coworkers in the workplace. How many of us work for small businesses with no recourse to any kind of HR or union assistance? How many of us have been made uncomfortable at the very least by "so-and-so just being so-and-so" and simply trying in the future to avoid that person? Why should female lives have be proscribed that way so many times in the workplace, and have to keep quiet about it to make sure they don't "rock the boat"?
I've had male superiors who've operated under the assumption that the females in the office were their personal playthings. I've also seen complaints about them resulting in the woman getting shifted out of the office, not the male superior being removed/fired - because TPTP placed more importance on him and looked the other way.
Am I sorry to see some of these guys fired or resign? Sure, because I only saw their public persona and find it hard to believe that they could be that stupid. But I believe the women, because I know what went on in all my workplaces over the decades, things that the women just put up with to keep their jobs.
It's way beyond time for the line in the sand to have finally been drawn.
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