He made sexually explicit comments at a work party to a woman he outranked. That’s what’s known as sexual harassment.

It was a work function, so even if it doesn’t meet your definition of harassment, it still isn’t appropriate office behaviour and lesser company drones at AMNH could well have risked dismissal for it.

Drunkenly hitting on someone at a bar and drunkenly hitting on someone at a work party are a bit different. Especially when you’re in a position of power at the company.

People in bars and at other parties are roughly equals; no one is equal at an office party because you can’t reassign your boss, fire them, or deny their raises if you hit on them and they turn you down. The whole problem with hitting on your underlings and their family/guests is that the recipient doesn’t know if…

Yea how dare women feel universally fed up with men continuously disrespecting their physical boundaries. Don’t they know ::aww, shucks:: boys are gonna be boys? 

If you can’t drink without harassing a woman at a party, you shouldn’t drink. If the woman feels like she’s being harassed, she’s being harassed. If everyone held people to these standards instead of trying to excuse them with, “Whoa, hey, everybody does it, where would we be if we didn’t let guys act creepy and…

“Lots of people have done this behavior” =/= “This behavior can’t be sexual harassment.”

And to such an extent that an organization was advised to avoid working with him despite his financial and PR draw? That speaks volumes. I work for big law and I’m hit on by drunk lawyers from other firms all of the time- and I’m not especially attractive- these fools keep going until they find someone who is willing o…

I thought that too!

Same. I thought they had gone rogue in hospital billing. 

Goddammit another misleading headline: totally thought this was going to be a Mr. Robot style hijack and am disappointed it’s just workaday folks doing good things for strangers. Borrrring!

Maybe don’t use the words “big leap forward” to describe relations with China. Just... maybe.

If Wisconsin proves anything, it is that people in power don’t want to let it go when they are not re-elected and the voice of the people don’t matter.

Wisconsin is Scott Free, come January!

I’ve brought up your first point about punishing those who knowingly hire illegals with people across the political spectrum, and they all think it’s a great idea. The reason it won’t happen is the dirty little secret our Republican representatives are well aware of but don’t want the average voter to know: that we wo…

>> Relations with China have taken a BIG leap forward!

“Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has denied a bizarre rumor claiming that he has died and was replaced by a Sudanese imposter.”

Job search update: I have an interview scheduled for 4:00 on Monday at the open house!

OMFG y’all Pumpkin Andy is sitting in the bar at a Cheesecake Factory and there’s nothing left of me, I’m so exhausted! I’ve been judging a college mock trial tournament all day and I’m dead! The kids are tremendous and it’s really a privilege, if not an honor, to do this. The trials were intense! The objections…

Hi Jezzies, I want to thank a lot of you for all of your advice and offers of help last week, it has meant so much to me. I have found a cat sitter for Ollie and Can spend Xmas with family. Those of you who have seen me comment for the part 16 months know what a hell it has been for me. I attempted suicide and became…