Executive at Wegman Partners, apparently
If you are going to be sexually forward at work, well, you shouldn’t be. But if you are going to be that guy, can you at least be an adult about it? Can you at least say, “Hello, I know this is entirely inappropriate, but would you like to go on a date with me?” You shouldn’t s**t where you eat and you shouldn’t treat your professional colleagues as potential mates and you shouldn’t make people feel uncomfortable with your sexual advances, but if that is all somehow too much to ask, can you AT LEAST inappropriately proposition people like a ADULT HUMAN instead of a red-ass baboon with a hard-on?
I don’t mean to focus on the wrong thing, but just listen to this complaint filed at the New York City Commission on Human Rights. It alleges various misconduct by an executive of Wegman Partners, a legal recruiting firm. From the New York Post:
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A male executive at a national headhunting firm preyed on his female underling — groping her breasts, saying he wanted to “suck on her boobies,” and humping her office door, according to a new complaint…
“At times, he has passed out in the office,” the complaint says, above a photograph that purportedly shows Legg sprawled out on the carpet.
She also took photos of a sign Legg allegedly posted outside his office that read, “Suck my balls,” and a photo of an ejaculating penis that he’d allegedly drawn.
You’re humping a door? Come on. YOU’RE HUMPING A FREAKING DOOR?
That’s bad and terrible and, if true, the guy should be fired and pilloried and shunned and all of it. I’m here for all of it. My level of sympathy or understanding for guys who sexually harass their colleagues is at an all time low. May he find redemption in the next life.
But, after the obligatory outrage, I’m just struck by the total reptilian nature of the harassment. Not just reptilian as in “repulsive,” but also reptilian as in “I assume a crocodile with thumbs would be able to eat and draw ejaculating penises and not much else.”
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Keeping with the freaking single-celled behavior, this guy allegedly got angry and threw chairs when his humping was repulsed. The woman who filed the complaint went to HR at Wegman, which suspended him for (wait for it) five days.
Because when you hear that an employee has the impulse control of gluttonous shark, taking him out of the water for five days is sure to do the trick.
Predictably, this human boob allegedly pulled all the work from the woman who complained, forcing her to eventually leave the firm.
Sexual harassment can come in even the classiest, most adult, form. The package of the harassment does not make it more or less okay. BUT IF WE CAN’T STOP THE GUY HUMPING THE DOOR, WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING? This should be the easy one. We are freaking lost.
Exec is accused of violating every HR policy ever [New York Post]
Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at [email protected]</a