We like ‘em big here
I stumbled across this today while perusing our web traffic. (It was a link back to a post at another community.) It’s an email conversation between a female employee and her HR director, her supervisor, and the company owner, no less. I’ll let the conversation speak for itself. my company is big on giving [...]
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Sound familiar?
In China, a 28-yer-old woman has won the first sexual harassment lawsuit since the country passed the Chinese Women’s Rights Protection Law back in 2005. The woman, surnamed Luo, suffered repeated groping from her new boss at the Japanese-owned company Moriroku (Guangzhou) Plastics Company Limited. She complained to the institution officials, even producing photographs of her [...]
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State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (Hardcover) tagged “politics” 69 times
By Bob Woodward
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Revising my “worst case” assessment
Did I say that the Jay Glosser case was one of the worst stories of sexual harassment retaliation I’ve heard? Well, it still is, but now I’ve stumbled across another one that is worse. Frank Garcia, a former nursing supervisor in Rochester, New York, has been sentenced to three life terms for murder. Prosecutors [...]
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Women behaving badly
So, Liza Minelli is out of trouble now, though I would love to know how much the settlement was–the guy signed a “won’t talk” clause. If you don’t know about this, Liza (63) got sued by her chauffeur for quid pro quo harassment. The victim said she made many repeated attempts to “compel [...]
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Fahrenheit 9/11 (DVD) tagged “politics” 65 times
By John Ashcroft (II)
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover) tagged “politics” 65 times
By John J. Mearsheimer
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Guilty: update on the TCC murder plot
Recently, LiveScience and Yahoo featured an article published by a university professor which claims the more formally educated someone is, the better they are at handling anger. Source (As if people stop learning when they quit going to classes.) This made me laugh out loud. After working in social science research for years with [...]