Steve...I get it. The cases of which I do have knowledge, and the other two were more serious..were all brought into being when the relationship was over and the man resisted her ending it. The one I was supposed to be deposed over, you're exactly right, she was trying to see what she could get. It was extortion all around in a company run by narcissistic psychopaths who finally got bitten by one of their own kind. Of course she signed a confidentiality agreement. Of course she talked about it anyway. She took her newfound money and bought herself new boobs. She was real proud of those boobs. I've long since lost contact with any of these people. That company's long since been bought out. So yeah, I'm "blabbing about it on the internet" anonymously years later.
I know companies have those policies to protect themselves, but you and I both know there are situations where settlements ARE MADE to avoid trial and exposure of this kind of stuff. And whatever the HR policy is, some companies (and government agencies) still operate like glorified frat houses, and they still have to cover up for their "bad boys" sometimes.
The worst thing of all is, the people whose careers are actually HARMED are the normal people who don't participate in this crap when it's going on. I was the one who didn't go on certain trips to see important clients because it would get in the way of certain trysts. I was the one slandered and sabotaged because I "knew too much." I sure as hell didn't get a company car. It was all good though, because it gave me a reason to leave and get a better job I liked more somewhere else, with normal people.
Anyway, it's all a side conversation at this point.
