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The Gender-Swapped and all Minority Remake of MeToo is Really Good
A J.P. Morgan executive is being sued by a former junior employee for allegedly saying hilarious shit like this. If there were merits to the case, it would be comic book levels of sexual harassment. Literal "cringey HR video" remarks.
Unfortunately, most of finance twitter has already come to the conclusion that the allegations are highly or totally fabricated at worse and, at best, that there was a mutually consensual affair that the junior employee, since fired, is trying to use to legally extort settlement money.
Here's the fun twist; the executive is female, of white-and-something else origin, and the alleged victim is a male of likely southeast asian or, maybe, arab origin.
This is mostly a flavor-of-the-week alleged sex scandal that will be forgotten quickly. But the culture war implications are fun if you list them out;
Of course I am being tongue-in-cheek here because this is goofy tabloid nonsense. But goofy tabloid nonsense can have second and third order impact. If the ghost-of-the-ghost of MeToo now has junior male employees fabricating or embellishing facts to try to rend some money out of corporations, at what point do those corporations, and their legal departments, and courts, start to get fatigued of these annoyances? Do we see something coming-full-circle where off-color sexual jokes are de facto re-permitted in work environments because "everyone does them, and if you can't deal with them, you probably shouldn't be working here?"
On this one, I'm in the Nothing Ever Changes camp. MeToo both nailed a few actual monsters (Weinstein, Bacon, Matt Lauer) and caused thousands of anonymous, awkward men permanent career damage. Something something trolley problems. MeToo did not cause a fundamental shift in workplace "gender relations."
AI will never replace this level of art.
I have no idea if it's true. If it is, it's terrible. But yeah, I had to darkly chuckle as I remembered the comments on here about sexual harassment at work being no big deal, if you can get a promotion by sleeping with your boss why not?
So guys, what's the opinion now that it is a man being told "sleep with me or I can ruin your career"?
EDIT: In agreement with other comments that this does sound fabricated, at least in part. The guy is described as "Asian" which could be anything, there's claims it's this person so he's probably? possibly? Indian. If this is his employment history, wow. He seems to have only lasted a year or so everywhere he worked, so you do have to wonder if he's not very good at the job and is now trying to make hay out of "Affair with boss did not result in promotion so revenge and more importantly large hush-money pay out it is!"
"Asian fish head wife"? is this saying his wife is South-East Asian or has a pointy head? I am not at all familiar with Eastern European invective so have no idea if "fish head" is a common Albanian insult?
EDIT EDIT: Well, whether or not The New York Post is as much a newspaper of record as >The New York Times, here is another allegation:
Dude better hope he gets a payout, as I can see his new job at Bregal Sagemount ending soon after all this scandal.
And wow, this is him, I wasn't quite sure but again: "Rana, a former basketball player and Rutgers graduate"
How is it possible he had the same experience at Morgan Stanley, his employer before JP Morgan?
There’s absolutely no chance it’s real.
https://x.com/andrewalanpolk/status/2050008447698018342
It could be possible that he's trying to develop a scam and/or tried the old "get a promotion by hooking up with the boss" move or even just "complain about THE RACISM and get a big payout" before, it worked (sort of) and now he tried it again and it's not working. Comparing their work histories, the female executive has been at JP Morgan since 2011 and doesn't seem to have worked elsewhere, while he's had six jobs in four years. One of these sounds more like "isn't working out so time to part ways by mutual agreement and move on" than the other, and if that's his employment history then he may well feel he's never going to get something permanent, might as well try for a pay out.
I 100% think that’s what happened!
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Yeah, it seems pretty dubious to me as well. I just wish society would be similarly skeptical when women tell (apparent) whoppers about men.
It gets better! If I can trust this link on /r/Drama (and why should I not trust them?), the previous time he tried it, he claimed it was a MALE boss who did all the drugging and assaulting and threatening.
So either our friend is such a hunk of irresistible sexiness, both men and women want to do nasty things to him, or yes he's telling porky pies the naughty naughty boy!
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