NYTimes: Sex & Violence, Beyond the Script- Page 2

[LarryD2]

Posted: 3/16/15 at 9:06am

The article is not well-written, but to say that the personal lives of co-workers does not influence the atmosphere at work is bunk. Especially in a situation where one person (Shepherd here) is an established company member--someone who, at least de facto, holds a higher rank--and the other, a guest artist, is viewed and treated as an outsider. It doesn't sound like Wooster Group handled the situation well at all, but it also sounds like Ireland was placed in a damned-if-she-does position. If she stays, then the impression is that it mustn't have been so bad; if she quits, then she's the one who ends up punished.