CTPartners US:CTP shares are up 2% in after-hours trading.

That doesn’t really begin to tell the story. In fact, it’s probably the least interesting thing that’s come out of the past 24 hours of heavy news flow about this corporate recruiting firm.

It all started early Monday when the New York Post reported some colorful claims of discrimination against women. Not only did female workers “routinely” have profitable accounts taken away and given to their male counterparts, they were also subjected to some inappropriate “booze-fueled” behavior, according to the complaint.

One exec called himself “daddy” and offered a spanking. Four others formed a naked rugby-like scrum in front of a mixed crowd of coworkers and ran into the ocean. Another would call women into his office to talk about how the shadows on the buildings outside looked like “penises.” All told, there were more than a dozen different sexual-harassment complaints brought internally in the New York office in 2012, according to the Post.

Shortly after that story hit, CTPartners announced that it was selling shares of its stock, with the CEO offering more than 400,000 shares of his own. The writer of the story tweeted about the timing.

All this before the market opened. Then the bell rang, and the company that had seen its shares rally by about 250% through Friday watched as they plunged 24%. Time for damage control.

Less than 12 hours after announcing the offering, CTPartners changed its mind. “Due to market conditions.” Conditions that apparently were really different than they’d been earlier in the day.

The PR department wasn’t done yet. A few minutes after that, it released a statement saying the COO has taken a long look at the complaint laid out in the Post and “the company believes that the claim does not have merit.”