A former senior Qantas flight attendant is accused of exposing himself to a female colleague and touching her breasts during a flight, but he claims he had her consent…
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I understand Qantas terminated his employment after an internal investigation. This is according to ABC news in Australia.
Yes of course, what 21-year-old doesn't want to see their 54-year-old supervisor whip out their junk out work. What a moron.
I just wasted a minute reading this. And now wasted another 30 seconds of my life writing this.. I'm out of control
In a few years men won't even be allowed to talk to women for fear of being accused of harrassment lol.
Not surprising that many of my friends sitting on boards of large companies have secretly asked to STOP hiring attractive assistant.
@Real Alpha Male -- You should just tell your "friends sitting on boards of large companies" to not pull their genitals out in front of any work associates. If they're able to avoid doing that, they can hire their assistants based on the anticipated merits of their job performance. Their physical appearance won't need to be a consideration.
The key element here is that he was the supervisor. That put him in a position of power so yes this is sexual harassment.
If someone is afraid of hiring someone because of that then they should ask themselves why...is it that they want to be able to sexually harass at will?
@Jerry, you must be "extremely" naive to think that assistants are "only hired based in the anticipated merits of their job performance" . Sorry pal, this is not the way it works in the real world. Never has been and never will be... This is Human nature and natural selection at work
@Real Beta Troll
There’s actually a very easy way to hire whatever assistant you like without getting sued. It has worked wonders for me. I will share with you this trick: Don’t have romantic relationships, sexual relationships or sexually harass your coworkers. It’s actually very easy, you just have to let the words go through your brain before you let them out of your mouth.
@real alpha male what’s your definition of attractive ? You’re clearly uneducated
Am I the only one that thinks OMAAT is digging the bottom of the barrel for things to post about?
Consent or not it’s just plain stupid to be getting your freak on at your place of work!
Keep that for your time off work or the hotel when you lay over!
@ Sel, D.:
Couldn't agree more. I worked as a server in several restaurants in college 20 years or so ago, and experienced many verbal sexist incidents, especially between the servers and the cooks. The Ryan Reynolds movie "Waiting" is very close to reality in that environment, at least as it was 20 years ago.
A safe liberal seat and swift promotion to the cabinet is on the cards for this dickhead.
This non-story should have been left to Gary at WFTW as part of his regular click-bait surely.
@Ed,
that should be "Liberal" with a capital "L", as you're describing the political party not the political movement. Most people outside Aust aren't aware that the Liberal Party leans centre-right (despite being dragged further right in recent years like the Republicans in the US, and the Conservatives in the UK), as they were named after the classical liberalism movement.
But you are correct - based on their recent record, I'd be surprised if this person hasn't already been preselected in a safe seat.
Ben, a suggestion. Try and raise the tone a few notches. Your website is precious. The court can settle matters of sexual misconduct accusations.
He has since been terminated after an internal investigation carried out by Qantas.
Does the punishment fit the crime?
I consider a sentence of 7 years quite ri-dick-ulous.
Guess it's too much to ask an employer for a working environment that won't degenerate into sexual harassment, because, apparently, in the real world, attractive people should expect to be harassed... Got it.
Am I the only absolutely flabbergasted that there is such a thing as a straight Qantas flight attendant!?