Dear Queenie,
Normally when I read your article your reply seems accurate.
However, after reading your reply to “Molested employee” in the April 6 column I was disappointed and shocked by your advice which stated, and I quote: “Forget about the incident and if you go out with co-workers again make sure you stay sober. Do not drink any alcohol at all if that is what it takes for you not to get drunk.”
Queenie, the moral here is being molested and not about being intoxicated. This incident can impact that employee’s life forever. What it would take for her to protect herself from being molested again, drunk or sober, would be to find herself another job.—Female employee
Dear Female employee,
Perhaps you did not read the letter in that column carefully. The writer clearly said that when she told the man to stop what he was doing he stopped, and the next day he apologised for his behaviour.
She was not molested. The man approached her when she was intoxicated, she rejected him, he went no further and later showed regret for what he had done.
My advice to her was to make sure she never gave him – or any man – an opportunity to approach her that way again, specifically by refraining from drinking so much that her ability to function normally might be impaired, Perhaps if that man had tried again on another occasion I would have advised her to quit her job, but there was no indication that he had ever done so again.
