[Captain Blood]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

There's a whole political section where you can set up your very own thread to bash Trump instead of jacking this one. I'm sure you can find some friends to play with there.

Sure. That is still a deflection, though.

[The Choosey begger]

Originally Posted by wrickem

My 25 year old niece has a pretty nice job on the Today show. He's made little sexual innuendo jokes to her since she started there 3 years ago (it's hot on the set today, she must be around here somewhere when she walks in the room, and things like that). She would just banter back "oh Matt, you're cute but you're older than my father" and be done with it 'till the next time. To her, it wasn't a big deal, it was banter, she never felt if she didn't do what he wanted that she'd be fired or demoted. (We did try to sell her on having his baby so she'd never have to work again, but she wasn't having any of that )

This summer , she was called into HR because somebody noticed his creepy comments about her. They told her "if he does anything inappropriate at all, you have to come directly to us". She was smart enough to know it would be her who'd be shown out the door, not him... unless he did something REALLY bad. It seems like they've been looking to hang him even before all the $hit hit the fan with everybody else.

That was a compliment. You never made comments like the new girl in accounting is hot etc? Hahaha

My God, people these days...i'm sure women do it too talk about so and so being hot

[Captain Blood]

Originally Posted by anglo

In a nutshell we are better off now than when Obama was president.

Amazingly, as poorly a job as Obama did, that's just not true. Or, you could say, are we better in the frying pan or in the fire?

[The Choosey begger]

Originally Posted by Real Dodger

Amazingly, as poorly a job as Obama did, that's just not true. Or, you could say, are we better in the frying pan or in the fire?

Obama is the worst President when it comes to fiscal responsibility.

Terrible foreign policies, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Ukraine collapsed under Obama.

Failure to act against Russia spying on his own party.

He promised he'd unite the American people but instead he was the most divisive president.

[Questofthetune]

This forum is crazy when it comes to any social issues. Seriously I’ve seen outright defense for people who have done terrible things with their position of power and even admitted it in statements. Disconnect is real.

[Captain Blood]

Originally Posted by anglo

Obama is the worst President when it comes to fiscal responsibility.

Terrible foreign policies, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Ukraine collapsed under Obama.

Failure to act against Russia spying on his own party.

He promised he'd unite the American people but instead he was the most divisive president.

All true, but that doesn't excuse Trumps incompetence.

[wrickem]

Originally Posted by anglo

That was a compliment. You never made comments like the new girl in accounting is hot etc? Hahaha

My God, people these days...i'm sure women do it too talk about so and so being hot

I agree. It's going to be a sad sad day when you can't have a little harmless sexual innuendo with a co-worker. Pretty much we all know what the line is but it seems to be moving towards being Puritanical

[The Choosey begger]

Originally Posted by Real Dodger

All true, but that doesn't excuse Trumps incompetence.

Trump is an improvement over the social organizer/activist/ lawyer/ parasite.

[CTinline-six]

[Teufel_Hunden]

Probably should have given this a little more thought...

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by CTinline-six

I'm sticking with straight harassment, like "Four-eyes" when someone wears a new pair of glasses. "I noticed something different, but I was only looking at her face."

[upstatedoc]

Originally Posted by wrickem

I agree. It's going to be a sad sad day when you can't have a little harmless sexual innuendo with a co-worker. Pretty much we all know what the line is but it seems to be moving towards being Puritanical

"it's hot on the set today, she must be around here somewhere when she walks in the room, and things like that"

I can't ever imagine saying that to someone at work and I'm far from Puritanical.

[1MOREMOD]

Well hope these cases that are false the men get wrongful termination payouts and this crap stops.

[jgoens]

Originally Posted by wrickem

I agree. It's going to be a sad sad day when you can't have a lot of harmless sexual innuendo with a co-worker. Pretty much we all know what the line is but it seems to be moving towards being Puritanical

FTFY.

[Teufel_Hunden]

Originally Posted by 1MOREMOD

Well hope these cases that are false the men get wrongful termination payouts and this crap stops.

Bet it gets worse, tip of the iceberg.

[bimmer456]

I'm still trying to figure out how Matt Lauer is different from Donald Trump where we have recorded evidence of him admitting to sexual assault and yet he later claims he didn't do it, and that's not a problem yet NBC can decide in 4 hours that he's guilty of what he's being accused of without a fair trial.

[RickFLM4]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

The interesting thing is when I saw this on the Today show this morning and they cut to commercials... it was Matt Lauer in a commercial for a local Hospice where he brought his dad. Those commercials have been running for years. Sure seemed like someone in the local news that I presume airs those ads must have gotten caught off-guard or was sleeping at the wheel. What a stupid commercial to show immediately after the spokesperson is fired for misconduct. :

So no more Hospice ads with Matt Lauer on local tv.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/enterta...698FgwWrjEVgO/

Anyone know what he did, specifically. Pretty explicit details about Louis CK, Charlie Rose and others and here it's just "misconduct with reason to believe it wasn't only once." Has Lauer made a statement?

[Doc Oc]

Originally Posted by anglo

In a nutshell we are better off now than when Obama was president.

I've read some dumb shit on here over the last few years but damn....

[shoei]

Originally Posted by bimmer456

I'm still trying to figure out how Matt Lauer is different from Donald Trump where we have recorded evidence of him admitting to sexual assault and yet he later claims he didn't do it, and that's not a problem yet NBC can decide in 4 hours that he's guilty of what he's being accused of without a fair trial.

You cannot possibly think that NBC made that decision in four hours, lol... Seriously?

I worked at smaller companies where it will still take weeks of quiet investigation before a decision is made... You cover your ass before a decision like that is even close to being made. Right when you think you are done? Nope. Council or the board will also have to sign off. Nobody will risk the liability of he said / she said, and especially somebody like NBC and ESPECIALLY when dealing with a high profile employee and company...

I can guarantee you that this inquiry started long before Weinstein got nailed...

[Banana Hammock]

Originally Posted by CTinline-six

[bimmer456]

Originally Posted by shoei

You cannot possibly think that NBC made that decision in four hours, lol... Seriously?

I worked at smaller companies where it will still take weeks of quiet investigation before a decision is made... You cover your ass before a decision like that is even close to being made. Right when you think you are done? Nope. Council or the board will also have to sign off. Nobody will risk the liability of he said / she said, and especially somebody like NBC and ESPECIALLY when dealing with a high profile employee and company...

I can guarantee you that this inquiry started long before Weinstein got nailed...

According to various sources they found out about this Monday night and fired him the next day.

[SakhirM4]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

I'm sticking with straight harassment, like "Four-eyes" when someone wears a new pair of glasses. "I noticed something different, but I was only looking at her face."

I thought you were going to say "I just complimented her on her new pair!"