Well, I think in any workplace, a person in his position would do similar... He is the lower one in the pyramid, everyone needs to eat... The girl is the one "out" here... If she does wanted to have his help, she should give him some kind of protection... For me, the author deliberately put her with this aura of a social justice warrior to break her in the development of the history, I can't see any way why she would act like this.