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Bosses, don't call your employees "boy toy[s]." And don't stay in hotel rooms with them. And really, as a state employee, you probably shouldn't have your "special assistant" pick up your dry cleaning, especially when that includes what the Trib calls "undergarmets." Avoid, avoid, avoid.
Carlos Estes testified today in a sexual harassment suit against his former boss, chief of staff in the Illinois Department of Human Services Teyonda Wertz. Estes says he was fired after rejecting Wertz's come-ons; Wertz says he was fired for misuse of state vehicles. Estes, a high-school drop-out, was making $70,000 a year as a Wertz's assistant. He says he realized his boss was coming on to him when she got jealous of one of his female friends, and when Estes tried to smooth things over, she came on to him even more. He told her wasn't into her.
Weeks later, the two found themselves at a job training seminar in Springfield. Estes didn't have a hotel room, Wertz did, but their testimonies differ on whose idea it was to share. From the Trib:
After dinner together, the two went up to Wertz's suite, [Estes's lawyer] Dana Kurtz said. Wertz changed into silk pajamas and climbed into her bed, she said.Wertz told Estes as he sat on a couch to take off his clothes, Kurtz said. Estes went into the bathroom and changed into pajamas, she said.
After Estes exited the bathroom, Wertz allegedly told him, "I want you to make love to me or else you'll be fired."
He refused, telling her it wouldn't be appropriate, Kurtz said. He spent the night on the sofa bed, while Wertz slept in the bed in a separate room, she said.
Wertz says she did no such thing.
Her choice of sleepwear has become a major part of this he-said, she-said--and not just because the silk jammies were part of the dry cleaning Estes picked up for her. (Who gets pajamas dry cleaned?! Good lord.) According to the Sun-Times, "Wertz said the silk pajamas she wore had consisted of a three-piece outfit: a top with long sleeves, pants and a jacket." Kurtz asked if they were paisley, but Wertz said they were houndstooth, "a checked pattern of gold, brown, gray and platinum." A little Blanche Deveraux for our tastes.[S-T, Trib 1, Trib 2, Trib 3, S-T 2, photo viaDHS]
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Who dry cleans jammies?
The sort of person with a $70K assistant.
The saying does go, "Keep your filthy paws off my silky draws."
Also, this case reads like a Keith Sweat song come to life.
always love it when keith sweat can be brought up in a discussion, but this story would best be told in hip-hop opera form as the sequel to R. Kelley's "Trapped in the Closet"
$70,000 for the assistant to the chief of staff of the Illinois Department of Human Services? She's not even the Chief, and she can spend taxpayer money for an assistant? Who in their right mind approved THAT expenditure? Doesn't Illinois State Govt have an audit. . . oh, never mind.
* grrrr *
Carlos Estes major job was to drive Teyonda back and forth to springfield. Why couldn't she drive herself? She sould get fired and so should her boss Dr.Carolyn Adams,who had the nerve to drag her great big fat a$S to court and testify on her behalf!
I love how Chicago's white politicans loves them some Negros as long as they are greedy and corrupt. And its always the same ones! They get fired from the city, and get hired by Hud, they get fired from Hud, and then hired by the state its musical chairs. And of cours they always manage programs and agencies that deal with poor people in need. They can steal all the want just don't rock no boats or make no waves for no white folks.
Where is Pat Quinn!
I'm thirsty, yo!
"I want you to make love to me or else you'll be fired."
Either she's the stupidest person on Earth for saying that, or Estes is, for making up something sooo ridiculous to say. Why didn't she add "even though I know it's illegal" at the end.
Either way as a dropout with a 70k 'job' maybe he shoulda kept his mouth shut and thought of Vanessa Williams............
Now that the light's been shown on these two cockroaches, hopefully this job won't exist anymore.
Exactly!!! What'd she have a stinky thang? For 70,000 do her for Christ's sake!!!
As much as we'd all like to have $50 million dollars - or at least a really healthy salary - this goes to show that some people (like Wertz) don't deserve such money, cause they don't know how to spend it.