Anyone ever had to take sexual harassment training at work?

[BarkingGhostar]

I learned a lot from this kind of training. I learned how to do it without getting caught.

 

[GobBluth]

lots of common sense bullshit. 2+ hours of it.

basically, don't make sexually crude jokes at work and don't bang your coworkers.

Not banging your coworkers was never part of my training. In fact, I believe it is encouraged if they are hot. Plus, if she wasn't interested, she wouldn't have dressed that way...

 

[shabby]

"What do you call a lesbian dinosaur? Licksalotofpuss"

Frickin bible thumpers who feel the need to open their mouth.

Looks like it wasn't the bible thumpers this time, the dinosaur bit is a dead giveaway...

 

[Sonikku]

Supv came to me and asked me if I know of an incident that involved a lesbian coworker in our department. I asked him to explain and he tells me a story where a post-it note was left attached to her monitor.

"What do you call a lesbian dinosaur? Licksalotofpuss"

The woman was offended and went to our director.

If it were me I probably would have giggled and moved on. :\

 

[NetWareHead]

It boggles the mind that grown adults need to be taught how to behave in a work environment.

This is what confounds me too. The two guys I wrote about who created the very first incident tried to explain and excuse their behavior. "We were trying to find out what kind of personality she has and if she was going to be able to work with people of differing opinions." I just cant believe what kind of answer they provided to explain the harassment. They just cant see that they are the cause of the problem. Whoever she is sleeping with should not be a factor in a business setting.

 

[NetWareHead]

I hate to play Devil's advocate here but I have to ask.... Why does anyone know she's a lesbian?

I mean it's not like it asks if you're gay or straight on your job application. Nor is it normal to go around asking people "Excuse me but I was wondering do you prefer penis' or vagina's?" Point obviously being, she had to be outspoken about it, which I would certainly file in the "Not professionally work appropriate" box as well. I don't go around telling people I'm straight and love vagina's, I'm pretty sure I would get written up, so why is this any different?

As I understood it, she engaged these two guys in a bit of light hearted conversation, something pretty typical when you are new at a company. She divulged that she has a girlfriend she lives with and I understood the conversation turned from friendly to berating & criticism. They told her it was not something you ar born with but a choice on her part to engage in what they think is sinful behavior etc... etc...

My point is that you MIGHT be able to have this sort of conversation with someone at work. But with someone in their first week of employment? You hardly know her. You dont know if she is easily offended or has thick skin. If this was at a party or non business setting, she would have been offended and no big deal; walk away and forget about it. But in a business setting it is highly inappropriate. You cant walk away and she was then going to defend herself.

 

[blankslate]

I hate to play Devil's advocate here but I have to ask.... Why does anyone know she's a lesbian?

I mean it's not like it asks if you're gay or straight on your job application. Nor is it normal to go around asking people "Excuse me but I was wondering do you prefer penis' or vagina's?" Point obviously being, she had to be outspoken about it, which I would certainly file in the "Not professionally work appropriate" box as well. I don't go around telling people I'm straight and love vagina's, I'm pretty sure I would get written up, so why is this any different?

Or maybe she was asked out a few times by an asshole who couldn't accept the fact that he's not god's gift to women assumed "Since she's not attracted to a guy like me she must be a lesbian."

Who the hell knows?

*e2a*

As I understood it, she engaged these two guys in a bit of light hearted conversation, something pretty typical when you are new at a company. She divulged that she has a girlfriend she lives with and I understood the conversation turned from friendly to berating & criticism. They told her it was not something you ar born with but a choice on her part to engage in what they think is sinful behavior etc... etc...

@blankslate "read the fracking thread...."


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[FerrelGeek]

If it were me I probably would have giggled and moved on. :\

I have a good online friend who's bi. She'd have laughed. She has the most adorable giggle; I love her to bits. Stunning green eyes! <3

 

[Exophase]

I hate to play Devil's advocate here but I have to ask.... Why does anyone know she's a lesbian?

I mean it's not like it asks if you're gay or straight on your job application. Nor is it normal to go around asking people "Excuse me but I was wondering do you prefer penis' or vagina's?" Point obviously being, she had to be outspoken about it, which I would certainly file in the "Not professionally work appropriate" box as well. I don't go around telling people I'm straight and love vagina's, I'm pretty sure I would get written up, so why is this any different?

A lot of gay and lesbian people simply look, sound, and act in a way that people can easily associate with their sexual orientation. So people could have very well made correct assumptions about her not based on anything she said and began harassing her over it. Hardly had to have been going around talking about her sex life.

There are people at work whom I know aren't straight because they eventually mentioned significant others in friendly group conversation. For some of them, their sexual orientation was obvious beforehand, for others it wasn't.

 

[Jaepheth]

I didn't want to do the harassment training... but they made me.

"Just take it. Take the training."

... they said I might lose my job if I didn't... so I did.

I don't want to talk about it anymore.

 

[pete6032]

This is what confounds me too. The two guys I wrote about who created the very first incident tried to explain and excuse their behavior. "We were trying to find out what kind of personality she has and if she was going to be able to work with people of differing opinions." I just cant believe what kind of answer they provided to explain the harassment. They just cant see that they are the cause of the problem. Whoever she is sleeping with should not be a factor in a business setting.

Ugh. Skirting responsibility.

 

[DeathReborn]

I have been on that demeaning training course 4 times and never has it veered away from sexual harassment towards women. Harassment towards men is completely ignored. It's almost as bad as religious tolerance training.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I have been on that demeaning training course 4 times and never has it veered away from sexual harassment towards women. Harassment towards men is completely ignored. It's almost as bad as religious tolerance training.

Why don't you take it like a man instead of being such a pussy? We know who dominates your bedroom...





Don't you know? Sexual harassment towards men doesn't exist. Well, mostly because we have thick skin and can remember lessons from 5th grade on not making a big deal out of something as stupid as words.

 

[DeathReborn]

Why don't you take it like a man instead of being such a pussy? We know who dominates your bedroom...





Don't you know? Sexual harassment towards men doesn't exist. Well, mostly because we have thick skin and can remember lessons from 5th grade on not making a big deal out of something as stupid as words.

:thumbsdown:

Sexual Harassment is not limited to words you know. Also it's called equality not one group/gender/race etc getting different rules.

 

[Mai72]

Don't say anything or even glance at a co-worker you find attractive. Just say "hello ma'am" and "g-day." Keep it light and brief. You get hit with sexual harassment, you are finished.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm glad I work in an easy going environment, but yeah in some work places it can be ridiculously sensitive and you really have to walk on egg shells when it comes to that stuff. Like don't even make a joke about anything.

Meanwhile in my dept... it's like a contest to see who can come up with the most awful jokes. It's hilarious. Some of them would probably get me banned here.

 

[destrekor]

Army Reserve - all the damn time

 

[dawp]

It's included in our Code of Business Conduct, a cbt we have to take every year which takes about an hour if I remember correctly.

 

[pontifex]

I think we have to do it like every year or something like that...
along with other stuff, like anti-corruption, etc.

 

[spacejamz]

when you get in the class, ask the instructor "is harass one word or two???"

 

[spacejamz]

we have to take an annual online training session on Work place ethics...also have to take annual workplace security session as well...

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

:thumbsdown:

Sexual Harassment is not limited to words you know. Also it's called equality not one group/gender/race etc getting different rules.

No, actually, it is limited to words, you know? No, apparently you don't because your HR has shoved their thrusting political correctness down your throat.

Touching someone inappropriately is an ACTUAL CRIME that you can be arrested for. The other is not.

 

[MongGrel]

You'd be surprised how anal some companies are these days.

We used to have to take training for all kinds of things at Honeywell years ago, on a yearly basis online in the intranet there.

Even in the model shop just to be certified to use hand tools or climb a ladder, even when we were doing things on a much higher level daily.

We had three women at the time came into the model shop before they closed it down that were offended one guy had a picture of Diane Lane above his bench that was cut out of a local paper off the front page.

But they had become so PC at the time there was a transgendered bathroom over a decade ago.

The higher up the ladder you go, the more PC some places get these days, and you will have people trying to stab you in the back over it, just to advance their personal agendas even if they are not producing anything other than being a placeholder trying to justify their jobs in one way or another, while not doing much of anything really productive.

You get a lot of people walking around with clipboards these days in groups just looking to start crap with BS degrees that can't hit their ass with both hands these days trying to justify their job.

Some companies take it pretty seriously, and will use it against you if they want to is the long and short of it was my point more or less.

 

[Maridon Tier]

yeah i had to take that one time at a gym i worked out, they had the entire crew sit down for 45 minutes listening to lecture and watch video on it. Our manager was a female to so im assuming something happend to her recently so she made everyone learn how to be respectful lol. It was informative though, learned more like how to be a "gentleman".

 

[Pardus]

What if the person teaching the course is named Ms. Choaksondick.

Walk around the office like this and see what happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shHH5llrma8