We occasionally report workplace behavior that’s so odd that it sounds made up. Except it’s not. Today’s story: The company president who got sued for pulling down a worker’s pants.
The Wichita Falls (TX) Times Record News reports that a local company, Crowell Contract and Design, Inc., came to an out-of-court agreement with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission after the agency filed a complaint against company president Timmy Christopher for pulling down the pants of a female worker while other workers looked on.
The employer agreed to pay the employee $21,000 and take “corrective action” to ensure there are no repeat incidents — which sounds as if it wouldn’t be all that complicated, since all it requires is that the president refrain from pulling down employees’ pants.
Among the allegations filed in EEOC documents: President Christopher occasionally would stroll behind worker Deanna Collins and tug at her pants, until one day when he finally decided to pull them down. Collins resigned and filed a complaint with the EEOC.
All together now: What was he thinking?
