[HardDrive]

We have a professional friend who is a leader in her field. Unfortunately, her boss for the past 3 years is a horrible jerk. His first order of business after arriving was starting up a sexual relationship with a subordinate, then giving this subordinate power over higher ranking (and much more experienced) employees. The female employees have been outraged by it. It has created a horrible toxic environment. Twice now this jerk in question has hired consultants to come in and study the situation, and both times, the consultants have produced utter BS reports that 100% blame the employees.

Our friend is now facing disciplinary action based on the second consultants report. She is exhausted, scared, and simply wants to do her job in peace. She is considering filing a sexual harassment claim against the guy. This is the within the University of Washington system, so regardless of how it went down, it would create quite the blow up.

She is actively looking for work elsewhere, and there have been some very positive prospects.

Does she:

A) Take whatever horrible schit comes from this disciplinary action and simply continue to look for work elsewhere, and move on.

B) File the claim against this person, and try and stay

C) File the claim and use the claim as a basis for getting a decent severance package.

She is basically ready to say 'damn the torpedoes' and file the claim, but she is very concerned that she will be marked in her field as a trouble maker. On the flip side, it makes her very angry that she will have to leave a job she loves, in a city she loves, completely because of the actions of on jerk.

What do you think?