Re:I'm a creep. I'm sorry
by slg on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:41PM
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The inappropriateness of McClure actions has no relationship to whether they occurred in a bar over a mixed drink or in an office over a bottled water. The "workplace umbrella", as you put it, follows him wherever he interacts with coworkers due to his position of power over them even if they are interacting in a social setting.
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The "workplace umbrella", as you put it, follows him wherever he interacts with coworkers due to his position of power over them
Did I miss something here? My understanding from what McClure wrote is that he was interacting with someone who wasn't a co-worker.
Someone seeking a job that you control can probably be said to be like a coworker for the purposes of analyzing power imbalances.
So a purely social drink with a non-coworker immediately becomes a workplace event when they ask about the possibility of working at your company? Ok, I can sort of see that... but I hope that situation never arises for me, because there's no way I'd be able to switch from "social" to "work" modes that fast.
In any event, I'm not sure that "a job you control" was the case here: It sounds like he (quite rightly) handed that off to someone else and had nothing to do with the hiring decision. It does seem like he should have been clearer to the applicant about not being part of that decision, though.