If you have been reading “MsSparky.com” very long you know one if my biggest complaints with DoD contracting is that the Contractor is financially rewarded for screwing up. There is little to no incentive to manage people in accordance with US law, especially Title VII laws. If a low life manager sexually harasses or discriminates against an employee and the employee files suit, most contractors have had the unmitigated gall to consider this a cost of doing business and therefore a billable expense. Although I don’t personally see the vouchers, there is little doubt the DoD has paid them.

Here’s a classic scenario that seems to repeat itself over and over in Iraq :

You are a female/male  who just went to work for a DoD contractor in Iraq. Your new boss suggests things in Iraq could be much better for you if you just allow him/her to come on over after work and “watch a movie”.  “Watch a movie” is not so subtle code for “I would like to come on over and bestow upon you my sexual superiority”.  Then there are the not so subtle threats of retaliation if their most generous offer is refused. Although this is just one of many scenarios, and the harassment can go male on female, male on male, female on male or female on female, the most predominant form of harassment and discrimination in DoD contracting is a male manager and a female subordinate and then male manager and a male subordinate. (Read the rest of the story here…)