"James Comey’s opening statement reads like the test answer you’re supposed to give at the end of the Human Resources training video," writes John Dickerson, contributing editor at The Atlantic. "When your superior makes you uncomfortable should you a) explain your boundaries b) discuss the issue with your direct report c) make contemporaneous notes to lock in your recollection or d) all of the above. Comey picked D.”

From an HR perspective, Comey’s testimony revealed a dysfunctional workplace that happens to be 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and that “offers a striking picture of boss and subordinate,” Dickerson writes.

Trump’s actions in his nascent presidency would lead to many sleepless nights for HR if they had to contend with the same from their own CEOs. And having the world hear a high-level employee accuse their ex-boss as a liar is as scary as it can get for HR.

"The President delights in breaking norms, but he undermines his colleagues who can’t predict where he’s going," Dickerson notes. "That contributes to an atmosphere of chaos and saps from administrative veterans the greatest skill they bring—the ability to anticipate events that occur along normal patterns."

For sure Comey’s testimony has implications in the U.S. and globally that go way beyond the workplace, but "you also had to see this Senate hearing for what it was: an exit interview for an employee who got harassed, then fired by his boss," Jason Johnson writes for The Root.  

Comey’s treatment is a textbook case of management trying to blame an employee who complains of sexual harassment, according to Corrine McConnaughy, associate professor of political science at George Washington University and author of The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: A Reassessment. She wrote about this subject for Vox. 

"Nobody who has sat in a chair across from a boss, alone in a room, and heard him say he ‘hopes’ you do something—‘I hope you don’t report me to the human resources department,’ perhaps—would find that argument persuasive," McConnaughy writes. 

Sexual harassment victims also may have been cringing when Comey was asked whether he should have acted more forcefully in contesting Trump’s request. "Naturally, it is not the duty of Republicans to accept every statement by Comey as the only reasonable version of events. Nor is it wrong to challenge his account," McConnaughy notes. "But the inability to recognize that, in that one-on-one dinner, President Trump wielded the power over Comey, and that this power dynamic might have shaped Comey’s response, suggests an all-too-familiar blind spot."

McConnaughy continues that “seeing a man as powerful as James Comey face victim-blaming hurdles should perhaps make us all wrestle with just how daunting the challenge is for the average woman making a sexual harassment claim."