USDA staffer STUNS fellow employees by accusing supervisor of dangling promotion for sex at agency gala

A USDA staffer who had been offered a promotion in exchange for sex told the story to a crowd of her employees at an agency gala and naming the supervisor who did it:

FOX NEWS – An Agriculture Department employee reportedly stunned an audience of her coworkers at a Black History Month event last week by taking the stage and publicly naming a supervisor she claims offered her a promotion in exchange for sex.

The Washington Post reported that Rosetta Davis named the supervisor and gave an emotional account of their interactions – before she was led backstage, shouting.

The USDA reportedly then put her on administrative leave and told her not to use agency facilities or contact USDA workers to discuss her employment.

Davis already had filed a lawsuit in federal court detailing her claims, before revealing her story to an audience of peers.

Here’s the thing kicker…

“I agreed to the sex,” she explained to The Washington Post, in a separate interview.

Davis claims she and the supervisor had a relationship for eight months, but she ended it after the supervisor sought an act “she considered unnatural,” according to the Post.

So she agreed to the sex? It’s one thing to be denied a promotion because of sexual harassment, but it sounds like she not only agreed to the sex, but had a relationship with her supervisor. Are we allowed to question her morals for agreeing to trade sex for a promotion?

After she broke it off, she never got that promotion…so she’s suing now:

The lawsuit reportedly alleges she then became the target of sexual harassment and “brutal retaliation” – and never got that promotion.

While the case has been in the courts for months, her surprise announcement at the agency event brought it out into the open, amid a climate where women across government and the private sector are speaking out on sexual harassment.

One employee in attendance told the Post the audience was “shellshocked.”

If you ask me they both should be fired.


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