Dorothy Carvello still remembers the day she was fired from her dream job at Atlantic Records for playing by the rules.
It was September 1990, and she had just written a memo to her boss, reporting a possible human resources violation, according to a lawsuit Carvello filed in New York state court against the record label last week. Carvello claimed that her supervisor told her, “Honey, come sit on my lap,” during a work meeting in front of other male executives, as a condition of joining the meeting, the lawsuit said. She said in the court filing that she refused, but the supervisor insisted, drawing laughter from the room.
Carvello left the meeting and wrote the memo, also calling out the “juvenile behavior by all the men at Atlantic Records.” She said she hoped the report would bring punishment for the supervisor and change in the company.
