This sordid affair in Fulton County has reinforced some truisms.
First, it’s never a good idea to have sex with your boss. Second, it’s even worse for bosses to intimately relate with employees. And it’s more appalling if it’s on the public dime.
Throw in some tracking devices, a little stalking and a coverup and, well, you have an episode that’s very Fulton.
I’m talking about Fulton Commissioner Natalie Hall, who cost the county $902,000 after a judge ruled she had an affair with an employee and then fired him after he said he needed some space.
Hall’s fellow commissioners recently threw up their hands and voted to pay Calvin Brock, Hall’s former chief of staff, to go away. Brock filed an EEOC complaint against Hall alleging sexual discrimination in the workplace.
The settlement followed a very lop-sided decision by a federal administrative judge in Brock’s favor, awarding him back pay, “front pay,” attorneys’ fees and compensatory damages.
Appealing the case, and spending even more money, was a losing proposition, Hall’s colleagues tell me.