Craig
Craig v. M&O Agencies, Inc.
Opinion
Opinion
I. BACKGROUND
This suit stems from incidents inappropriate in any work environment and made all the more egregious here because they were perpetrated on the plaintiff by her direct supervisor. 1 M&O Agencies is the legal name of the Arizona corporation which does business as The Mahoney Group. For convenience, we will defer to the practice of the parties and refer to the corporate defendant as “The Mahoney Group.” CRAIG v. M&O AGENCIES, INC. 9517 The following facts are largely undisputed by the parties. Craig worked for The Mahoney Group as the branch manager in Tucson and reported to Byrd who was the interim presi- dent. Over the course of several months, Byrd made repeated inappropriate comments to Craig about her legs and how she should wear shorter skirts. Although Craig thought the com- ments were obnoxious, she was not particularly offended. The situation took a turn for the worse on August 8, 2003, when, at Byrd’s invitation, Craig met him for drinks after work at an On the Border restaurant. She had previously been to other happy hours and lunches with Byrd to discuss work related matters and thought this would be a similar meeting. Craig and Byrd drank…