Sexual harassment by my commercial landlords agent

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idahogirl

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I am a married mother and adult female who is diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. I have found that because of my neurological condition, it is easy for me to be taken advantage of. I take things and people at face value and quite litteraly. An example is when I kept a book-keeper on the payroll who took advantage and messed up my books for a year before I caught on. I had a horrible situation that I know that I played a part in, however, I feel that I fell prey to this man after months of his chasing. When I finally gave in and then tried to stop the relationship, he kept stalking me emotionally and physically.

He has admitted to being "sick" and a sex addict. Luckily I was seeing a counselor during these horrible four months, and I even went to a clinic that specializes in abusive relationships, codependancy, and relationship addictions. While I was at this clinic, even after cutting off all physical contact for a month, he still sent me emails and pictures of himself that were in company ads. I was emotionally wrecked and seemed to worry more about what would happen to him if I turned him into the company, then about myself. I was sure that I could handle it.

Finally, I gave my counselor permission to contact authorities in his church (he is LDS) and they put a quick stop to it. My husband asked him to resign from his position as property director from where our business is because he is an admitted sex addict. We don't have any business authority over him, but he manages the hotels and our business is in the hotel he manages. He has direct and indirect authority over the success of our business (I believe). In addition to his x rated e-mails that he sent during work hours, he also sent me emails detailing what he did behind his desk in view of guests. He went to his employers first, and when I got to them, he spun it to a simple affair between two consenting adults.

I don't feel this way. I know I made a mistake but I feel like I was literally hooked on him after the first time it happened. I made numerous attempts to stop after that. The employer said that they had no sex in the workplace policy, yet I don't feel that their property director on their company time, computers, and using their rooms to seduce and have sex in is in any way not against their policy. They just said that for the healing of both sides, keep it quiet. They never asked for my side of the story and he even told them that he left his last job for similar problems. There were rumors that this happened to another woman here before me. The day she left he latched onto me.

I don't know why I did it, but looking back it was pure manipulation on his part. I feel like I just want his employers to know the truth of what happened. I either want him gone, or for them to let me out of my lease and possibly buy my business fixtures so I can start new somewhere else where I don't need to see him pass by. I'm sure they have no liability, but what would you do? Please remember that I know that I made this mistake on my own, but that I really do have a neurological disorder that makes it hard for me to reason and understand social games, work environments, and manipulation. My psychologist labeled me a "vulnerable adult".
 
It is not up to you what action his employers take. You don't get to decide whether he will be fired or not. You don't get to tell them what they should do to "make it up to you".

So, you're trying to tell us that you have no responsibility for your own actions? That he is 100% responsible and you just let things happen to you? That your "disorder" makes you innocent of anything?

Sorry, not buying what you're selling.
 
I don't think that there was anywhere in my post that suggests that he is 100% responsible and that my "disorder makes me innocent of anything". I believe that people make mistakes. I certaintly did. I told the corporation that I played a part in this also. However, I made numerous attempts to get him to leave me alone, especially when going away to find out what is wrong with me.

No reasonable, normal woman would fall for what I did, in my opinion. My psychologist has a doctorate in neurological and developmental disabilities. I have been diagnosed through several mental and neurological evalutations legally establishing me as what my psychologist explained is a "vulnerable adult". I have no idea why I allowed it to happen other than I tried to get help from several people, yet I was petrified of admitting to my part in it, to lose my family, to have them or him seek retribution on me. After I forced HIM to go to his employer and confess to his behaviors, he threatened to make my life difficult if I told them anything other than the excuse that he gave to them.

Yes, I was stupid, and the "disorder" that I speak about has caused many teenagers and young women to be date raped, taken advantage of mentally and sexually because the neurons in the frontal lobe of the brain that allow reasoning, organization, and judgement have not develop as others without AS. My "dissorder" qualifies as a dissability by social security and federal law. The fact is that the man spent seven months trying to befriend me which then turned to something that I never had thought that I would have allowed because my judgement and reasoning when it comes to social situations is actually that of a 13 year old (although I have an average IQ, the emotional IQ so to speak is not developed). When it all came to a head, his excuse was that he was a sex addict who can't stop. I realize that I should never have put myself into that position...but are you to say that a company wouldn't find any fault in an employee who has admitted in e-mails just as I was cutting off the relationship, that he viewed pornography and "took care of himself" in his office while watching guests through his window? That he sent x rated e-mails from his corporate computer while he is on the clock as hotel manager? And when I get away from him to go to a mental health clinic to figure out why I allowed it to happen, he sends me pictures of him in company ads by e-mail? All I know is that had he not befriended me and persued me for seven months and come to my shop every day while he was on shift telling me how unhappy we both were in our marriages, I never would have thought of being friends with him. Would a company not find this information crucial due to the fact that he holds a master key to every hotel room on the property? It was dangerous to me, I later found out that he has done it more than once...and yes, I was taken advantage of. I believe that legal precedent has stated something to the effect that a woman's failure to stop the relationship doesn't automatically dissqualify her from winning a sexual harassment lawsuit.

I was doing pretty well before he singled me out to chase...I was running my business while also working p/t as a legal intern and a part time pre-law student at Penn State. Since this happened I have been having nightmares, anxiety attacks, depression, and I have dropped out of school and am hardly functioning. Sometimes we DO make mistakes, and these mistakes allow us to have our minds messed with to the point that we feel we should be in an insane asylum.

With all that said, I don't plan to file a lawsuit, I just want the company to know the truth of what happened, and for them to see the e-mails so that this won't happen again. The man is still walking by and looking in my windows when he sees that my husband isn't there. Of course I wouldn't want to stay in such a situation. My best case scenario would be for the company to at least keep watch of him to be sure that it doesn't happen again, or to fire him for harassing a business owner, or to let me out of my lease because I'm now in what I feel is a hostile environment. He has control over whether he chooses to promote or not promote my business.

Wouldn't you see a man that has done this as a liability to you're company...if you owned one? Would you take the risk to ignore my complaint?

Thank you for taking the time to read my posts.

"I know I made a mistake but I feel like I was literally hooked on him after the first time it happened. I made numerous attempts to stop after that. "

"Please remember that I know that I made this mistake on my own, but that I really do have a neurological disorder that makes it hard for me to reason and understand social games, work environments, and manipulation. My psychologist labeled me a "vulnerable adult"."
 
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