ICYMI: Nike has found itself engulfed in a sex scandal after exec caught receiving fellatio in the workplace, harassing women in workplace

For years Nike has been accused of being a horrible place to work at least if you’re a woman.

Nike probably isn’t having a great holiday season. Last week, two former Nike employees filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the company alleging that male executives often targeted female employees while they were intoxicated for the purposes of sex. The complaint was filed by Sarah Johnston and Kelly Cahill.

According to the complaint [may not be suitable for all audiences], male Nike executives at the company’s Oregon offices would often target women who they thought could easily become intoxicated with unwanted sexual advances. Other female employees who took part in an apparent gender based survey on workplace harassment revealed that they too were subjected to unwanted advances. In those advances, the women claim they were often invited to holiday parties only for the males of Nike to eventually coerce them into sleeping with them.

The complaint against Nike alleges that the workplace environment as a whole is pretty much pro-Male and unapologetic ally toxic.

In one particular complaint, a female employee credibly alleged that she witnessed with her own eyes a male exec receiving fellatio inside of the company’s gym during work hours. It is unclear who exactly the exec is as they weren’t named or identified in that part of the complaint.

These women did not initially come forward to Human Resources because they reportedly felt that due to the workplace culture, their concerns (as valid as they are/were) would have been outright ignored.

Strikingly enough, the surveys mentioned in the lawsuit were actually conducted in 2018. When management became aware, a Mr. Parker according to the suit, he quickly moved for immediate changes.

Changes that also meant more than 11 male executives left the company entirely.

“Over the past few weeks, we’ve become aware of reports of behavior occurring within our organization that do not reflect our core values of inclusivity, respect, and empowerment at a time when we are accelerating our transition to the next stage of growth and advancing our culture,” Parker wrote in an email.

In a separate shocking report over at Complex, it was revealed that the plaintiffs accused Nike of blatantly underpaying female employees $11,000 on average from 2015 to 2019 but the company’s lawyers claims there was no evidence of such.