Another one about to bite the dust at the WFAN, oh the pain! http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...no-booze-babes-and-brawls-20180718-story.html
Wow! Too bad for Big JoeyB and the WFAN gang. Even if they settle, those guys are done there. WFAN really has to change course and culture or they will not last much longer in this new day and age of #MeToo. Can't do that kinda shit anymore and think its business as usual.
If what she says is true why was she there for 5 years and not have a problem with it until she got fired? Something I always wonder with theses cases.
That's one way to look at it, but it's not the only way. People will take a lot of shit to keep a well-paying job. Workplace harassment often involves a powerful person who is untouchable in the organization. The victim's choice is to put up with it or quit. Filing a lawsuit like this is anything but a risk-free proposition for the alleged victim. If she has any skeletons in her closet, they will soon be blasted all over the tabloids. She can expect a lot of "unnamed sources" to be slinging mud at her. Filing a lawsuit like this can also make a person radioactive to would-be employers. A lot of them are afraid to hire a whistleblower. I wonder how many other WFAN hosts and employees are pooping a brick right about now? If true, this conduct is indefensible and intolerable, but whenever I hear about a person over 60 charged with this kind of thing, I have a tinge of sympathy. Thirty years ago, this kind of stuff was considered boys-will-be-boys in the workplace. The world has changed dramatically, and a lot of older guys just haven't gotten the memo.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/wfan-host-joe-benigno-accused-of-sexual-harassment/ "Say it ain't so, Joe. Say it ain't so."
I get what your saying and am not dismissing her claims entirely but 5 years raises some eyebrows. And there’s really no reason to believe it wouldn’t have been longer had they not fired her. It does punch some holes in her credibility.
Beningo always said that he wouldn't shave his moustache until the Jets win another Super Bowl. Little did we know it was a porn stache all along. The sports talk/sports broadcasting/sports analyst arena really is for crap right now. Between that insufferable blowhard Fatcesa managing to weasel himself back in because of circumstances that fell in his lap, Colin Cowherd being unlistenable at this point, Craig Carton getting hauled off in hand-cuffs, and ESPN sucking the life out of the room, all I have to say is Steve Somers for the win. He's always been a favorite of mine. Agree with Since1969, the "older generation" often doesn't get it, but IMO they should certainly know better and also have the built in convenience of feigning ignorance. However, my Daddy was older generation and did he ever get it . . . because he had a daughter. I was seriously sexually harassed and demeaned at work when I was in my early 20s. It was a corporate environment, no less. I was torn about talking to my Daddy about it for advice and as a sounding board. Trust me, this one POS in that office was making my life a living hell. The two reasons I ultimately didn't tell my father was because either the baseball bat would have come out or worse yet, that he'd be disappointed in me that I didn't handle it. I handled it. I don't mean that I continued to take it. I handled it. With a baseball bat. J/K. I murdered him with words, and he never bothered me again. I'll share it sometime.
Even in the old days, there was a saying, "Don't shit where you eat." Those who followed that motto stayed out of a lot of trouble.
There is also a third course of action you are leaving out — report the harassment. No person should have to quit a job because of harassment but there is a level of responsibility to the victim to report the harassment within a reasonable time frame. To report it solely after she was fired — and not fired because she reported it but because of another altercation — certainly discredits her claims to some extent. But to say she accepted it because the pay of the job made it worth her alleged suffering, but then attempt to absolve her of her choice in valuing the pay over the harassment, is dishonest. Is she really a victim of harassment if she made a deliberate choice that the pay was what was most important and valuable to her? Can we separate the fact that harassing behavior, by law, occurred even if she didn’t feel harassed by it? As reasonable human beings we should be able to make that distinction.
What you're forgetting is the power dynamics. Benigno is a star at WFAN. He brings ratings and advertising revenue. It would not have been the situation of one employee reporting another. What were the odds that HR would have treated any complaint properly? On the other hand, what were the odds that they would have backed their star over some replaceable ad salesperson? You're assuming an enlightened HR department that would have done the right thing regardless of the power dynamics. Don't forget that the plaintiff alleges that WFAN has a frat-house atmosphere (FANimal House one tabloid called it) where this kind of stuff was a way of life. If that's true (and that's a big if with this entire matter), would you really hold her to the standard of charging a machine-gun nest and blowing the whistle on the entire culture? I think you're asking far too much of a person who was, if the allegations are true, the victim of some very illegal and intolerable conduct. No person should have to choose between her job and being free of this type of conduct. Remember this: by filing a whistleblower action, she has probably made herself radioactive to would-be employers. If her allegations are bullshit, she has made herself doubly radioactive.
Very true, but people often start to think they're untouchable because sometimes they are. My eternal question when it comes to real and true misogyny is don't these idiots have a Mom, a Grandma, a daughter, or a sister? When their female relatives are treated the way other misogynists treat young girls and women, it doesn't sit well for the most part. I mean, duh, look in the mirror. We'll see how this plays out. Maybe she's disgruntled, maybe it has real traction. Time will tell.
I haven’t read what he did, but power dynamics aside, men are evolutionarily hardwired to be attracted to women. This leads men to sometimes come on to women. If you spend several hours a day interacting with women at work, you might reasonably have an opportunity to be attracted to one of them. Hitting on a co worker has been around since workplaces were integrated. This exists a continuum where it can become harassment. But there’s a lot of play in the joints, a lot of women get something out of being the target of someone’s attention.
Fair point, but the complaint alleges far more than simply coming on to her. IF the allegations are true, Benigno went way out of bounds under almost anyone's definition.
It may have been William Shakespeare who described it as "dipping his pen in company ink," but probably not.
People/men are just stupid including Benningo whom I happen to like as a FAN personality an old Jet fan: too funny when Mehta comes on his show :"Maneesh! Mahneesh Mahneesh! Stop right there ...!" He did something stupid and it could ruin his career..and in this day and age with harassment suits should have known better...but a 64 year old having threesomes?? Maybe a 44 yr old Beningo ..but bragging about. this?...are you kidding ? He is lucky he is STANDING at his age lol Hope this is all a lie made up by some angry- B----tch
Problem is, feminism wants to somehow stop the evolutionary process in its tracks TODAY and change the natural tendencies of males being attracted to females. We’re wired differently than women. Some crazy feminists want to rewire all men in the blink of an eye.
