24-year-old intern writes romantic fanfiction about 19-year-old intern and their 43-year-old boss, threatens to blame the story on the 19-year-old if she goes to HR: 'She told me that I should take it as a compliment'

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• A 19-year-old intern used the Internet to ask for advice on whether she should go to HR about a problem with her coworker. Said coworker, another intern, wrote a salacious fanfiction about the young intern and her 43-year-old boss, claiming that she thinks they'd be cute together. When the young intern told her that she would report her to HR for this, the fanfiction author threatened retaliation. 

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  Coworker wrote fanfic about me and manager, can I go to HR or is it career suicide?

  
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• The companies who make sexual harassment training videos could make a full-tilt short film out of this saga. They should buy the rights. 

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  via u/MilesBeforeSmiles
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• I've heard so many arguments for and against real-person fanfiction over the years. If it leads to antisocial behavior like this, then I don't think I can defend it. It's one thing for 14-year-olds to write a Y/N x Kit Conner fanfiction, but to still be doing it at 24 with people you know is lowkey diabolical. 

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