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If a CEO asked a much younger employee out and it made her so uncomfortable that she quit would you still say that it wasn't sexual harassment? Once is still too much. And for all we know Melinda might have felt compelled to say yes to avoid retaliation and only later accepted it.


According to my many sexual harassment trainings, it doesn't meet the definition of sexual harassment under U.S. law. But it is extremely borderline.




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