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Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?

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Re: Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?

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Everybody saying "lawyer", ignore, that's expensive and bad advice, you already know what the lawyer is going to say, lawyers are incredibly cautious and not particularly flexible or business savvy in helping you, all you'll get is a bill and no help with anything except what you already know couched in terms of a lot of statements designed for future "I told you so"s

Fire: probably, but not because this infraction was so bad or impossible to deal with (the victim herself said so) but because the guy appears to be a bad egg, just really bad judgement and other employees or customers might not be as adept as she is at dealing with it. So, unless his contract somehow protects him, or he is God's Gift to Business Development and your company is down the tubes without him (in which case you'll still need to figure out a way to head-off/handle his future infractions (promote her above him?)), you don't need to spend more time dealing with this.

Re: Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?

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post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Per the side of the story we know. Do you know something not present in this narrative? The use of 'milf', whether it's derogatory or a compliment, will depend entirely on the context of the larger conversation. Something we don't have. Something which apparently the OP didn't have either.

Please provide one example of using the term "MILF" in a professionally appropriate way.

please have the parser accept the following ASCII formatted unix stream: FirstName LF MI LF LastName LF

except don't allow trailing whitespaces at the ends of lines so more like

FirstNameLF

MILF

LastNameLF

*if she's a MILF, definitely get her first and last name... did I just ruin it?

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