OK retired DUers - how did you handle sexual harassment back in the day

[Ohio Joe]

115. Twice I had to deal with it...

I heard many, many stories through the years but twice it fell to me to deal with it.

1 - Back in the late 90's, I was a manager for a Y2K company. I often traveled to Columbus Ohio with others from my company and we stayed at the Crown Plaza. One afternoon I came back to the hotel and the manager was waiting for me (I'd been staying there for a few years and knew him). He explained that one of the maids was groped by one of my employees that morning. He took me to the office and she told me what happened. I told her if she wanted to press charges, the company would cooperate and help in any way we could. She said she just did not want to be groped. I asked the manager if he could get some security/employee of some sort to get his stuff from his room and bring it down. When the guy got to the hotel, I stopped him at the entrance and told him what he had done was a crime and he was lucky he was not being arrested and just fired instead. I pointed at his stuff and told him he no longer had a place to stay either... I probably should have told him his return flight ticket had been cancelled... I probably also should have mentioned that I had HR notify the govt about his new employment status in regards to his H1B but... Meh. Never heard what happened to him, nor did I care.

2 - About a year after that incident, another happened. A woman who worked for me came to my office, closed the door behind her and said she needed to talk to me. I told her to take a seat and go ahead. She described to me that a new guy that had been hired as a lead was sending her some emails that were scaring her and she handed me about 20 pages of emails. I read through them and it was pretty horrifying. They started out saying that she was so pretty that she had to marry him... They got worse as they went on... Threats of assault, cutting off fingers, kidnapping... Seriously nasty shit. I told her I was going to have the guy arrested but she just wanted it to stop. I assured her it would not happen again. I immediately called the guy into my office, sat him down, handed the emails to him and asked if he wrote them. He said yes he did. I said wow... That makes this super easy, you're fired. I'll never forget the look of confusion on his face as he said... "Are you not happy with my work?" I was pretty angry, got up and yelled "To your desk now, get your shit and get out. You ever come back or ever try to contact "X" I'll have you arrested. Again, I had HR notify the proper people regarding his new employment status in regards to his H1B. Never heard or cared what happened to that POS either.

Infuriating both times.