In the early 1990s, sexual harassment prevention training became big business. As a management attorney, I was often asked to give presentations on the topic. Dressed in my darkest three-piece suit, I would lecture employees about the evils of workplace harassment and what would befall them if they were guilty of it: loss of job, career, reputation and more. I shared the legalistic definitions provided by courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), told horror stories of actual cases and warned employees that retaliation and other forms of harassment were likewise prohibited.
