Roger Sutton - should he have resigned?

[BMWST?]

What a miserable grey old sterile world the public service must be

and it just got a little greyer and a little more sterile

[mossy1200]

This day and age, you cannot even compliment a woman on her appearance. That can be taken as sexual harrasment under my works' interpretation.

This day and age, you cannot even compliment a guy on his nc30. That can be taken as sexual harrasment under Honda interpretation.

Eg " I like you, single side swinger."

[FJRider]

1. We don't know all of the facts involved in this incident
2. We don't know if it was an isolated incident
3. Roger Sutton's "resignation" takes effect one day before CERA is absorbed into the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

So ...


WHO really won ... and WHO really lost ...

Mud does stick ... but it's easily washed off.

Shit sticks too ... it's just the smell that lingers ...

[Voltaire]

In politics.

Society as a whole seems willing to accept this type of behavior from persons in positions of supposed power. We have no one to blame but our selves for being led down the garden path.


RIOT.

Leaves a lot of unanswered questions:

Where is this path?
Where does it end up?

Where there is smoke there's Lucas.

[Akzle]

oh yeah, like women being allowed to vote (or leave the kitchen at all)is a good thing. Yay society!

[unstuck]

Where is this path?
Where does it end up?

Where there is smoke there's ME.

Wherever our esteemed leaders say it is.
Nowhere that benefits society as a whole.

[ellipsis]

...one way to get yourself out of a prick of a job...I'm sure he ain't goin' on holiday broke...

[R650R]

"more to the story here..."

are people alledging a conspiracy??? ;p

[meteor]

My female boss calls me darling, my wifes male boss calls her wench. All in good humor. Laugh it off. Yes to OP. The world is nuts.

[AllanB]

Guess those dogey e-mails that get sent around need to stop too.......

[Grumph]

...one way to get yourself out of a prick of a job...I'm sure he ain't goin' on holiday broke...

He's earned it. Hitcher's point on the ending of a "independent" CERA is noted. Sutton could on past form have been expected to disagree with this government's approach so there goes one voice from opposition.

The speed still astonishes me - normal harassment complaints in my experience take months to work through.

I'd doubt conspiracy, but could believe an opportunity seized by the govt....

[Berries]

The speed still astonishes me - normal harassment complaints in my experience take months to work through.

Tut tut. Had a few have we Roger?

[HenryDorsetCase]

The speed still astonishes me - normal harassment complaints in my experience take months to work through.

..

I've been wondering about that myself. Imagine a scenario where some fatty landwhale minority wimminz who has never ever worked anywhere except the public service butts heads with someone who (in my experience) never talks shit, is impatient with bureaucracy, and is very very able. Imagine they do not get on from minute one. Imagine said FLWM seizing an opportunity on the flimisiest of pretexts. Imagine RS going "You know what? Fuck this, I'm done: I dont need this, I don't need you, Fuck alla y'all - I'm out of here"

We of course have no way of knowing. We may never know. I may be "victim" blaming. I am very sympathetic to Roger at this point.

Note to self. Stop calling my young female legal exec "Sweetcheeks"

[oldrider]

I've been wondering about that myself. Imagine a scenario where some fatty landwhale minority wimminz who has never ever worked anywhere except the public service butts heads with someone who (in my experience) never talks shit, is impatient with bureaucracy, and is very very able. Imagine they do not get on from minute one. Imagine said FLWM seizing an opportunity on the flimisiest of pretexts. Imagine RS going "You know what? Fuck this, I'm done: I dont need this, I don't need you, Fuck alla y'all - I'm out of here"

We of course have no way of knowing. We may never know. I may be "victim" blaming. I am very sympathetic to Roger at this point.

Note to self. Stop calling my young female legal exec "Sweetcheeks"

Meanwhile anonimity of the "victim" obviously does her no favours iether! ... These cases should be out in the public for the benefit of both parties! (And the public)

[Grubber]

I had a guy working for me a couple of years ago who was one of those "touchy feely" types.
He would always extend his hand to you nearly every time or give fist pump to the girls etc.
One of our clients rang me to say there had been a sexual harassment issue with him.
Now lets get this right from the the start, he was definitely not one of those types at all.
Not one single other person, be it customer, workmate or anything else had ever had an issue with him.
We addressed the situation with said customer and made a commitment to not have him deliver there again.
We spoke to the driver and worked out a compromise. He was astonished at the allegations but would rather keep it quiet and carry on working. Problem solved. We couldn't sack him cause we had no real evidence, we were't going to drag the worker through the mill so we just compromised to fix the problem.
About 3 months later the said complainant was sacked for making false complaint against one of the management. Cameras in the right areas solved the problem. Apparently if she simply didn't like someone she just filed a sexual harassment against them.
So easy to do cause the said victim gets priority.