Stultus est sicut stultus facit
Thanks to Devtun for the heads up on this one.
A retired USAF General has been deprived of two of his stars for bullying a subordinate into having sex with him.
And from Air Force Military News
In my view, Under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title VII, this would get him fired. I think the woman could justifiably sue his ass for monthly compensation from his retirement pay. If you whack these jerks in the pocket, it’s much worse than just losing a couple of stars. The perp has to explain things to people who thought he was going to get a fat retirement check, and then there’s that whole thing about those jobs with government contractors. They’re REALLY hinky about hiring someone whose reputation for being an asshole precedes him.
Here’s some info regarding sexual harassment on the job, for the uninformed:
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and to labor organizations, as well as to the federal government. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.
Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances, including but not limited to the following:
- The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex.
- The harasser can be the victim’s supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee.
- The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct.
- Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge of the victim.
- The harasser’s conduct must be unwelcome.
It is helpful for the victim to inform the harasser directly that the conduct is unwelcome and must stop. The victim should use any employer complaint mechanism or grievance system available.
In case you’re quibbling about ‘well, it’s military, not civilian’, the term ‘federal government’ should include military if it hasn’t before.
At the same time, the woman in question did have legal help available if she had used her head. As I understand it, Dave Hardin just took the door off his cubbyhole so that the Master Sergeant couldn’t shut it any more.
Category: Legal
2 stars lost after retirement. That kick in the wallet probably hurts..
Retroactive means they want the overpayment, too.
He’s gonna be single with half his shit, too.
And yet Bill Clinton still walks around as a hero to half if America with his full pension.
That’s because no one has sued him or whats-her-name for harassment yet.
All AF enlisted retirees recalled for sexual harassment training.
Yeah…ha ha.. uh, no.
Death by Power Point briefings for everyone else in 3, 2, 1,…
“The woman officer told investigators that she felt she had no choice because of his rank and who he was.” If that’s what she felt, then she should never have been an officer. The complaint came some SEVEN YEARS after the most recent sexual contact between the two. I am not arguing that it was okay for the general to have boinked a subordinate. What I am saying is that the woman is full of shit. There is no allegation of rape or sexual assault. And seven years later? Pa-lease.
My thoughts exactly 2/17. There is something fishy going on here.
Fishy? Fishy = cash in the pockets.
I think this gal is giving the General a raw deal this late in the program, and for that she seems full of shit. She was a commissioned Officer, not some new E-1 who didn’t know the way to the PX yet. Besides, if Title VII were truly enforced, in say, Hollywood, we would have no movies to speak of. The Director’s couch has been getting movies and stars made since the beginning and no one seems to bitch about their gained, pay for play celebrity and wealth. And those are the liberal elite of the West coast too.
Oh, now, Sparks. She’s on a vendetta. Give the girl a break. ‘Bullied into it’ is much more victim-sympathetic than ‘had an affair’.
The general retires with four stars, but instead of taking the younger officer with him, ditches her for the ultimatum his wife gave him, whatever it was.
Surely you’ve heard about such things??
So junior birdwoman, finding that she’s been dumped, files a complaint of sexual harrassment and bullying seven years later, and he gets a post-retirement bust down to two stars.
Think that’s enough? No, no, no! She’ll crop up again with a big, fat cash demand and a lawsuit. Count on it.
After more than seven years, the statute of limitations has almost certainly run on any civil claim that she may have had.
She’ll get a settlement.
She’ll also write a bad book that will become a Lifetime movie. Recommended by Oprah.
And endorsed by one of the bony skanks from the Pussy Rallies.
They’re REALLY hinky about hiring someone whose reputation for being an asshole precedes him.
Unless your name is Joe Sestak, and then they just send your worthless toxic ass to Congress.
Oh, well, that’s on the political end of the deal.
When he kicks the bucket, he’ll be authorized to have 4 stars on his headstone. The whole highest rank held thing. Yeah he took a hit on his pension, but I bet he made a very handsome sum since he hung up the blue suit.
Okay, seriously, you want to discourage this behavior? Here’s how you do it. Don’t take away two stars, don’t dock his pension. Take EVERYTHING.
Assemble his entire command. Strip every decoration he’s ever gotten in front of everyone. Announce that he’s busted to E-1, with a mandatory minimum of four years before he’ll be allowed to leave the service. If he’s already retired, reactivate him for the purpose. Then stick his ass in the most miserable base the Air Force (or other applicable branch) has. Let every NCO and junior enlisted at said purgatorial shithole know that the disgraced ex-general is to be utilized for every shit job they can find. He can spend his four years of penance raking lines to an exact compass bearing and scrubbing shitters with a toothbrush. And when those four years are up, no pension, period. Also, announce that he is persona non grata with DOD, and that any company he affiliates with will be ineligible for any kind of government work.
See how tempting it is for high-ranking officers to abuse authority when it will literally cost them everything.
That makes toooooo much sense.
Exactly.
TOW, you just took all the fun out of it.
Stultus est sicut stultus facit = stupid is as stupid does.
LMMFAO!!!!
https://youtu.be/TXlUS5-ag_g
No matter who did or did not start it, the shitbag knows it is a major no-no to stick it in a subordinate. That is covered extensively from the beginnings of ones efforts to become an officer.
If he hasn’t got the won’t-power to keep his fly zipped around subordinates, when the various clubs and whatnot are crawling with power-craving groupie-girls, he hasn’t got the judgment to be a stevedore, and he is toxic to any concept of unit cohesion. Cashier it for the good of the service. If it even -smells- like coercion, -shoot- the toad.