Good grief.
My mom used to work at a bank and had one under her desk that connected to emergency services… but that’s because she worked at a bank.
More on “the burton”:
(This is what happened at a local co I was referring to earlier - all solid doors were replaced with glass ones after the CEO’s sudden departure).
@“Cardinal Fang” – this is the part I don’t get at all and it has been noted in many of these cases. There’s something seriously wrong with people like that (serious inferiority complexes, so they have to show off their junk?).
We all knew that Hollywood was a cesspool for this kind of stuff but now it has spread to the media in general. Several of the media folks I’ve met have been total hound dogs, so it was bound to happen (and don’t just limit it to the men, either).
Do not be surprised to see a lot more of this stuff in Congress:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-workplace-culture-in-congress-fuels-sexual-harassment/
Note that the described aspects of Congress that enable sexual misconduct are not so different from the entertainment and media industries (and perhaps elsewhere also).
Lauer’s apology this morning.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/30/media/matt-lauer-apology/index.html
He harassed a woman until she passed out and left her on the floor according to one of the links above. Special place in he!!
@HarvestMoon1 He’s only sorry that he got caught. Pathetic.
Blah blah blah sorry blah blah blah humbled blah blah blah . . . .
I’m now wondering if there was more to Meredith Viara’s departure. I never bought her story about needing to care for her husband, because she seemed to continue to stay very busy. I also wonder about Natalie Morales’ departure.
He and Morales were having an affair.
Which she denies emphatically.
@wisteria100 “Should people be judged by their worst moment or their best moments? I think that is what a lot of us are grappling with”
I agree. It does seem like a very hard sentence to have an entire lifetime of work thrown away for a drunken butt grab.
Unfortunately that is the world we live in. The crime de jour is sexual harassment. Many more men will fall.
Yesterday on my Facebook feed: Matt Lauer?! That can’t be! It’s a witch hunt! McCarthyism! Unverified reports, innuendo, where’s the proof, can’t women take a joke, blah blah blah.
Today: Dead silence, except for those blasting Lauer for his weak-a** “apology.”
Those reports from Variety and the NYT make it pretty clear that Lauer is a self-absorbed creep…and a rapist.
@MassDaD68 Yes you can be good all your life and then kill or rape someone and all that goodness goes down the drain. It’s going to be tough to learn the new rules. No more locking women in your office, pushing them over the desk, doing what you will until they pass out and then leaving them on the floor and having your assistant deal with emergency services.
I think some of you people watch too many movies
@fractalmstr Really should I post links to this reported story about Matt Lauer for you???
Here’s the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/business/media/nbc-matt-lauer.html
And here’s another report of the same story http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/30/matt-lauer-issues-statement-after-firing-over-sexual-misconduct-allegations.html
And another more detailed story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5130213/Matt-Lauer-flashed-penis-woman-bought-employee-sex-toy.html
The woman’s ex husband is backing her up by the way. Maybe he watches too many movies too???
So which part of this seems like fiction to you @fractalmstr ???
I was shocked that NBC would hire a technician to install a trap door button under Matt’s desk. This is nuts! Who thought it was a good idea? To allow a man to trap a woman in a room like that is the height of predatory.
To me it is a long stretch to play the “security” card to explain away the construction of his sexual dungeon.
@gearmom Admittedly, I have not been following the Lauer story very closely, so I had missed that. The way your comment was written, it sounded like you were attacking all men.
I just find this type of stuff to be so bizarre… and I am a guy, and I work with women, and based on my conversations with those women, this type of behavior is nonexistent. Maybe I just lucked out where I live, who knows.
@MassDaD68 That’s what my husband said to me this morning (when he was reading the story to me about the woman who was locked in, assaulted until she passed out, left on the floor until the assistant called emergency services - which was verified by her husband) and it’s probably a union shop which means a lot of paperwork.
The button was for security purposes. Since Lauer is so famous and prominent, I suspect the thinking was that if there were a nut job loose in the building, he could lock himself inside his office and remain safe. (While the staff riff raff gets shot up by the nut job. :-S )