A U.S. Postal Service employee is seeking $1 million in damages after alleging that she was sexually harassed by her former boyfriend, who was her supervisor in the office where she worked.
Maria Rosario, of Windsor Locks, has been a Postal Service driver since July 2012. In her federal lawsuit, she said she had an ongoing, intimate relationship with William Rodriguez, the acting manager of transportation. Rosario did not detail how long the relationship lasted or when it ended, but she said that Rodriguez is married, and she eventually broke things off. At that point, Rosario stated, Rodriguez “became exceedingly angry and began harassing her and making things extremely difficult for her in the workplace.”
Rosario claimed that Jeff Curenton, a transportation supervisor for the Postal Service in Connecticut, was aware of the alleged sexual harassment and even took part in it, according to the lawsuit. “The plaintiff has been made to feel very uncomfortable around Curenton as he constantly would scrutinize her private parts while she is in the workplace, as well as menacingly follow her throughout the building,” the lawsuit said. It does not indicate in which post office the parties work.
Rosario states that she was injured while working in 2014 and her doctor limited her duties to office work. She claims that Rodriguez sent her home on several occasions after claiming there was no work for her, despite Rosario’s contract saying that Rodriguez was required to find work for an employee on “limited duty.”
Rosario claimed that Jeff Curenton, a transportation supervisor for the Postal Service in Connecticut, was aware of the alleged sexual harassment and even took part in it, according to the lawsuit. “The plaintiff has been made to feel very uncomfortable around Curenton as he constantly would scrutinize her private parts while she is in the workplace, as well as menacingly follow her throughout the building,” the lawsuit said. It does not indicate in which post office the parties work.
Rosario filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to try to resolve her workplace issues. Mediation sessions were held, and solutions were proposed, but none was adhered to by the defendants, according to the lawsuit.
As a result of the alleged harassment, Rosario has suffered emotional distress, trauma, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, substantial loss of employment income, overly burdensome financial hardships, damage to her relationship with her family and friends, as well as damage to her self-esteem and sense of self-worth. It is not clear from her lawsuit if she is still employed by the Postal Service. Read more
Rosario (a USPS Motor Vehicle Service (MVS employee at the Hartford, CT P &DC) also alleges in the lawsuit that she made repeated complaints to other managers requesting that they intervene –but they refused to do so. The managers refusal to intervene permitted Rodriguez and Curenton to openly harass, provoke, intimidate and antagonize her to the point of utter exhaustion. Rosario alleged that Rodriguez went so far as to threaten her by stating, “see what I can do [to you]?
Oh boy. Hell hath no fury…. Inter-office relationships are bad for so many reasons. When they go bad, it turns into an emotion driven self destructive fight to the death (like the Black Knight in Python’s Holy Grail). We could sit all of the happy lovebirds down and logically prove to them that their situation was insane, but it would be a waste of time. We could get a chalk board and list scores of “cons” and only one very questionable “pro.” We could have the lovebirds sign off that they agreed that such relationships were lethal. It would do absolutely no good.
If you think you are immune from such a mistake, you are wrong. King David, in all his wisdom fell victim to his desires, and so could all of us.
Don’t trust in your self restraint. Just pray that you are delivered from temptation when potential improper opportunities arise. But if you lose your job and destroy your family, take comfort that you will not be the first or the last to do so.
Oh boy.
Oh, these workplace romances just don’t work out, do they? Well, first, lady, you admittedly were screwing a married man, and whether you are single or not, that makes you a slut in my view. I see way too much of this behavior and I can’t believe the selfishness and willingness it takes to do something like that.
I’m not a prude, but if you want to screw around, do it with other single people. Divorce or at least separate from the spouse first if you have no intention of ever reuniting. People involved in affairs always end up in bad situations or they cause them. To me, a person who is single and helps a married person cheat with him/her is no better than the married person is. Chances are you have kids involved, the cheaters try to overcompensate and talk about how much they “love” their kids to try to avoid the guilt trip. I have no respect whatsoever for people who fuck around and violate their marriage vows.
Then you have to do it with postal management?!? That is about as stupid as it gets. What did you expect your lover boy to do to you when you broke it off? It takes two to tango, and while you shouldn’t be harassed, if you’d kept your knickers on and left a married man alone you may not have to be filing a suit.
You deserve to lose for being selfish and thinking only of your own pleasures.
BTW, this month is my wife’s and my 22nd anniversary, and we have been steadfastly faithful and in love since we met. We never have to worry about cheating on one another and trust each other with all our hearts. Isn’t that better than treating relationships like a teen ager who “goes steady” or “has a relationship” and thinks they’re all grown up? That attitude carries on into adulthood and that’s why divorce is so high.
Wow, you sure are judgmental about people you don’t know. As far as your claim that you and your wife are totally faithful to each after 22 years of marriage, don’t you mean as far as you know? Maybe she’s dating someone right now, while you’re busy writing your long judgmental insults about people you have never even met.
Fire all three of them, just like a woman to scream harassment after giving up the pussy until she didn’t want to any longer! They all deserve the boot!
Lots of luck with ur lawsuit. Even,if u win,there total peace will sooner break out in the Mid-East,than USPS,would actually pay any judgement. At the plant,I worked 4 thirty-one years before my recent retirement,sexual harassment was commonplace and there were more than several rather openly adul tress affairs. However,those days were the good old days,compared 2 the threats,fears,intimidations,that were far far more demoralizing when plant closures/consolidations,or even threats of such actions,beginning at the of end of 2008. Many more people were driven by these actions than ever were by sexual-harassment,as the plant I worked at underwent two consolidations. The first in Oct.2009 and then again,as of Aug.1,2015. So many,opted 4 an earlier than planned retirement.
Learn from the pro.I always give promotions to my darlings.
They’ll give them all a promotion !!
It isn’t new. We have a fairly regular turnover in supervision and postmasters at our office. In my 31 years I’ve had six postmasters that I remember, eight or nine supervisors, and it’s always been a guessing game figuring out what kind of workplace you were going to get when a new one came in.
We have had some horrifying psychos, blithering idiots, and people who were both. We’ve also had good people who tried to be decent and fair as far as management would allow, and would at least level with us when they were faced with impossible situations. Our current supervisor is a good guy.
One thing that helps us city carriers is the fact that we have a very strong bond amongst most of us. Our local union has been a hard working one, and management knows that several of us know our contract and manuals. That kind of knowledge is pure gold because it helps send a message that harassment will not be taken lightly.
That can’t always be the case, and the last few newer CCA’s and recently converted regulars seem to think management is the shit and their best friends even though they’re being run into the ground and we can’t get it through the new regular’s heads that they must quit running, agreeing to carry a couple swings every day and start maintaining their routes. I figure only a bad route count and adjustment that adds several hundred stops to these routes and eliminates two or three routes in the process will convince them we old timers know what we’re talking about. They are their own worst enemies and will find out how loving their managers are when they get in at fault accidents, hurt themselves or a customer and get disciplined from district, who doesn’t give a shit about anybody and will order the supervisors to do what they tell them.
I’m grateful for my employment of 31 years and will retire at the end of 2016. I’ll be 56 but because I had very very heavy routes the first half of my career pre-internet, I have two hernia operations, a ruined back and a shoulder that was operated on and is in bad enough shape my surgeon wants me to go out on disability but I can’t afford that. That’s what we paid in exchange for job security and good wages and benefits. Now new employees don’t have those back breaking loads of old, but by skipping lunches, doing two routes a day or the equivalent thereof and running themselves ragged they’ll be in worse shape in a shorter amount of time because they won’t listen. I’m glad I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Typical immoral thug running things. We have new Plant Manager who couldn’t manage her way out of a bowl of spaghetti O’s. She bakes muffins with Meaghan in DC so she got job(by the way Meaghan, the homeless look is out). Since she took over
morale is down, productivity is down, numbers are way down but absenteeism is way
up as is discipline. This new Manager just made some of the most evil, corrupt,
immoral, employees supervisors. This is the new PO. Good luck everybody.
Enriching someone who has committed a misdemeanor crime of Adultery; up to 1 year in jail and 10,000 dollar fine can not be done. Additionally the parties probably enjoyed sex on the clock and in different places around the place where they worked not caring about their co workers or partners or spouses. Now that the relationship has ended someone has to pay for the fun that is no longer present, so blame the big pockets daddy the “Post Office”. Harassment is not acceptable at work but when you look at these circumstances; a big red flag should come up.
Management dating craft employees is very common in the Santa Ana district where I work in California especially in Santa Ana and Anaheim. Harassment after relationships with management and of friends of these craft employees will never go away. If you don’t marry them and get in the click to move up with the buddies you have just ruined your career and the buddies that they know you hang with. One thing that was great about the military officers did not date enlisted and if they did it was quietly done and kept out the work place. I very happy for this young lady but sad to say another dollar waisted by the post office by a manager they picked.