[dragonwriter]

> But since my workplace was raging with #MeToo consciousness

I think you misspelled “managerial incompetence”. Either (1) you weren't documenting that concrete relative (to other staff) poor performance on measurable performance criteria and the related counseling that you gave, or (2) you were wasting your time doing that (not just documenting, but even doing the counseling) when higher management wasn't willing to follow through on (for probably really bad reasons, whether it's “we’ll just assume lawsuit risk is unacceptable without reviewing the facts”, or “the facts of the specific case don't matter because we are actually so neck deep in sexual discrimination that any scrutiny, no matter how unwarranted the triggering complaint is, poses unacceptable danger”) in any case.

Either way, it's a management problem that #MeToo, at most, exposed, not a #MeToo problem.