As reported in the media, a top UK lawyer, Oxford graduate and father of two children (shown above with his wife) likely threw himself off a cliff shortly after being summoned by his law firm partners to be disciplined and perhaps fired for his alleged “inappropriate behavior” towards two female colleagues at a recent Christmas party.

The details of the so-called “inappropriate behavior” were not disclosed. However, as is the case with these types of accusations in the #metoo era, even a drunken slur or hand on the waist or shoulder these days is enough to get you fired, shamed and blacklisted for life.

The media reporting on this case is disturbing because it does not even acknowledge that the lawyer committed suicide; merely noting that his body was found at the bottom of the cliff near his home with his car parked nearby and his daughter’s teddy bear at the cliff-top. All likely indicators point to suicide.

The media however in insensitive to men taking their own lives or grasping with the traumatic fall out of job loss and lifetime unemployment from salacious and often unprovable allegations of harassment or inappropriate behavior.

Instead, the media chose to report on the trauma of the female “victims” from the Christmas party. (“Both of his colleagues who complained were ‘devastated’ by his death and a specialist counselor has been appointed to support staff at the firm.”). In other words, the female colleagues will not get closure on their accusations. Another dead man and family left behind while HR focuses on providing grief counseling to the “victims”.

Women who make accusations against men at work are often rewarded with extra compensation, raises, promotions and lifetime employment as no firm would ever dare let them go in fear of an employment lawsuit.

Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2018/12/27/top-lawyer-found-dead-after-being-accused-of-inappropriate-behaviour-at-office-christmas-party-8286969/?ito=cbshare

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