What I learnt from being sexually harassed at Google
&gt; In the span of a week, I went from feeling excited and motivated about my job to feeling lethargic, anxious, and unenthused. (...) I was kissed on the cheek, asked to sit on my manager’s lap, told about my manager’s sex life and virility (...)<p>There exists a breed of narcissists who are so incapable of tolerating rejection that they will consistently ignore every sign of it. In fact, the less you are satisfied with their actions, the more they will repeat them, desperately <i>needing</i> to see that your displeasure was just a temporary fluke and in the end they really are those cool dudes who are never wrong and everybody just admires them.<p>As a man I&#x27;ve never been asked to sit on one&#x27;s lap (knock on wood), but some did give me a fair amount of trouble.<p>It doesn&#x27;t help that their delusional serf-confidence can be confused with competence by some less experienced folks and get them promoted to management roles. In fact, I&#x27;d expect their density to increase as you go up the corporate food chain.