Good for them. Though, I wonder how this ever was allowed to get this bad in the first place[0]. Perhaps it's how I was raised, my employment history, or I've just "gotten lucky" with (larger) employers[1], but it blows my mind that <i>any</i> large employer allowed an employee to come <i>within a 100 yards</i> of harassing behavior.<p>I worked in various lead/senior roles in IT Infrastructure, security, support and development at a 5,000-20,000 (depending on the time) employee telecom. I know of one incident in the 17 years I was there that was <i>serious</i> related to sexual harassment. In that case, the "victimized employee" remained with the company, the harasser handled by suspension during a (hours long) investigation where they were fired with cause (also the only case in the US that I'm aware of). I was asked to collect his computer; yeah, firing him was a good call.<p>Women and minorities in IT -- both technical and management (VP was and currently still is the same woman) were represented well above the average[2] and promoted at no different rate. On our team and among our larger team -- 17 years -- <i>all</i> of the staff acted like <i>adults</i> (some had quirks, but nothing more). I don't <i>ever</i> recall a frat-boy like attitude and I know <i>none</i> of my co-workers would tolerate it. I don't even recall an incident of inappropriate humor. The only thing that came close was one colleague who dropped an F-Bomb casually about every 3 words (usually a "F<i>ckin'" or "F</i>cked Up" -- despite the word, I don't recall him using the word <i>sexually</i>). He lasted a year or so and didn't get fired for the F-Bombs -- everyone talked about it but nobody really cared[3].<p>[0] In fairness, I've not followed this story closely, so that may be my perception.<p>[1] The tempting explanation of "I didn't experience it, myself, therefore I was blind to it" isn't something I can <i>prove</i> I wasn't affected by, but my unusual set of jobs/position in the company allowed for few places to hide this kind of behavior from me at times.<p>[2] I'm always uncomfortable mentioning this -- we had higher than average because we actively <i>recruited</i> from places that would increase the number of minority candidates. We <i>did not</i> in <i>any way</i> apply hiring practices that favored under-represented races/genders -- and ended up having a very diverse team.<p>[3] I'm not suggesting harassing/racist behavior be ignored, however, another part of being an adult is tolerating things that we feel are "moral faults" in others without being uptight about it. "It takes a lot of people to make a world" ... My casually-swearing colleague never swore <i>at</i> people or <i>about</i> people -- he swore about <i>things</i> sometimes, and swore casually, even though he chose a word that many in the US feel to be among the most offensive profanities, co-workers used to just comment about "how strange it is to hear so much profanity out of one guy when nobody else is swearing at all".