[BC] The Employment Issue

[Rich Wood]

------ At 02:50 AM 2/8/2006, Rachel Ehrenberg wrote: -------

>I was "mauled" by the program director at a "Christian" station where I
>was the transmitter baby sitter.  Although I sort of was OK with it, it
>wsa during my what do I want with my life phase, in looking back it was
>an abuse of power.

I'm sure it was innocent. He was trying to infuse the love of God 
into you. like Jimmy Swaggart trying to convert the prostitutes in 
his motel room. You simply misread the purity of his intentions.

I recall working at a place (will remain nameless) where the General 
Manager and Sales Manager (both married and aggressively Christian) 
required female employees to release their tension for them on a 
regular basis. There really was a casting couch.

Today, that would have been the ticket to a lawsuit. At WOR there was 
a wonderful woman who just inspired me to want to give her a hug. As 
a manager I couldn't. On the day she left I told her I'd been wanting 
to do it for a long time. I hugged her goodbye. She returned the hug. 
We were close friends but had to keep a professional distance. There 
was nothing sexual in our affection for each other. She was just good 
people. She was almost as sarcastic as I am. The station lost a 
treasure when she left.

Rich