Originally Posted by
Nik Hasta
One of the big takeaways from MeToo is that a lot of people, though mostly women, don't come forward because it's easier to just put up with it than make yourself a target to things like this or killing your career if there's not enough evidence beyond your word against the abuser's.
Based on how these things have gone down previously, I would suspect that management knew about "rumours" but worked on the basis that they didn't need to look into it too closely because there wasn't a direct accusation.