*poll* I got written up for sexual harrasment! Whohoo!

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Yax

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Originally posted by: CChaos
Wait a minute here...someone in this thread got fired for saying they liked X-Men?

Must've been because they said X.
 

ReiAyanami

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well obvious you need to bring a gun to the work place to show them whose boss...
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sillymofo

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Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sexual harassment = getting hit on by an ugly person

Flirting = getting hit on by a cute person

the exact sentiment of my post... in much shorter verses.
 

Ray5150Ray

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Originally posted by: MisterJackson
I should also say that this woman once became deathly afraid of the number 5, and freaked out whenever she saw it for a few days because the number 5 was "kinda pointy and round"

I'm afraid of 7, because 7 8 9:Q!!!

Yeah, but 7 and 9 got a groovy thing goin' on!!

 

Gulzakar

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Your comment was out of line in a work place. Maybe you'll think next time before you speak.
 

NinjaGnome

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Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
Originally posted by: mflacy
If you are stupid enough to make a comment like that in today's work enviroment, you deserve to get written up.

Yes. It's like natural selection.


Natural selection my azz. This is just if you speak your mind and arent a pussy youll get fired.
 

IEatChildren

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I say you should have knocked her the fsck out.
Women want to be treated the same as men, so treat them the same. You'd probably knock out a guy for doing the same, knock her out :(
 

Slammy1

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Well, it was quite an inappropriate thing to say, and I also believe that you got off easy. I do agree that there is some craze about men harassing women that's taken away common sense from management. I've had a fair number of girls say very inappropriate things. I never talk that way unless it's in a very specific context. I recently had a girl claim that I was sexually harassing her, and I did absolutely nothing. When I started, she was very hostile towards me. I dealt with it by being friendly. She started wanting to take breaks and luch with me all of the time. One time she did something a little overt, so I explained to her on no uncertain terms that what we had was purely a professional friendship that I did not want to pursue outside work. She got pretty rough after that, started saying really messed up things about me to others behind my back. I confronted her on it, and management found out about it. She claimed I was sexually harassing her, and my supervisor actually believed her and really went off on me. I quit on the spot. In my exit interview, I asked HR why they would believe such total BS, they got rather upset. Fired the girl, fired the manager. I guess there was some justice in the end, but to assume that the male instigates things just because we're male is ludicrous.
 

isaacmacdonald

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Originally posted by: NinjaGnome
Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
Originally posted by: mflacy
If you are stupid enough to make a comment like that in today's work enviroment, you deserve to get written up.

Yes. It's like natural selection.


Natural selection my azz. This is just if you speak your mind and arent a pussy youll get fired.

right. that's the enviornment, and the rules are fairlyobvious. anyone who can't obey the rules (however absurd) will either be removed for the population or otherwise negatively effect in their career.
 

Zebo

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I'm personalyl glad we have women in the workplace doing this they keep the place civil. Without them to temper our vulgarity and dickheadedness we'd be a bunch of barbarians in the lockeroom throwing one another out windows.
 

MemnochtheDevil

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Originally posted by: mflacy
If you are stupid enough to make a comment like that in today's work enviroment, you deserve to get written up.


I have to agree with this statement. I don't think I'd say that about anyone in my company at work. Even among coworkers I trust that kind of comment would be just asking for trouble.

I'd also reconsider giving her no replies to questions. You can give her the cold shoulder but if you try to ignore her completely you could end up getting fired pretty easily. You've already got one strike against you, anymore and its much cheaper to replace you than to get sued by the woman.
 

Orsorum

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Originally posted by: Zebo
I'm personalyl glad we have women in the workplace doing this they keep the place civil. Without them to temper our vulgarity and dickheadedness we'd be a bunch of barbarians in the lockeroom throwing one another out windows.

Only if it's a woman in a group of guys. Other than that, I disagree. I think an all male organization would get along better than an all-female one.
 

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Originally posted by: Slammy1
Well, it was quite an inappropriate thing to say, and I also believe that you got off easy. I do agree that there is some craze about men harassing women that's taken away common sense from management. I've had a fair number of girls say very inappropriate things. I never talk that way unless it's in a very specific context. I recently had a girl claim that I was sexually harassing her, and I did absolutely nothing. When I started, she was very hostile towards me. I dealt with it by being friendly. She started wanting to take breaks and luch with me all of the time. One time she did something a little overt, so I explained to her on no uncertain terms that what we had was purely a professional friendship that I did not want to pursue outside work. She got pretty rough after that, started saying really messed up things about me to others behind my back. I confronted her on it, and management found out about it. She claimed I was sexually harassing her, and my supervisor actually believed her and really went off on me. I quit on the spot. In my exit interview, I asked HR why they would believe such total BS, they got rather upset. Fired the girl, fired the manager. I guess there was some justice in the end, but to assume that the male instigates things just because we're male is ludicrous.

Wow, a good reply.
 

MemnochtheDevil

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However, I'm not so sure that being written up was called for. The offended person should have gone to the mgr, stated her case and the manager could have dealt with it on a more personal level. Saying if it happened again or became a pattern, then disciplinary steps would be taken. Sounds like the mgr freaked and was thinking lawsuit and took a more drastic approach to a solution for a 1st-time offense. It's when patterns of harrassing behaviour are exhibited that lawsuits are brought about. This is far from that.

Nope, now everything has to be written up or witnessed by 2-3 people(managers). Otherwise all you have to do is say you can't remember ever being talked to by a manager about the incident and Cindy can sue for big damages. So any company with an HR worth their salt is going to have written records for this sort of thing.
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: Ray5150Ray
Originally posted by: MisterJackson
I should also say that this woman once became deathly afraid of the number 5, and freaked out whenever she saw it for a few days because the number 5 was "kinda pointy and round"

I'm afraid of 7, because 7 8 9:Q!!!

Yeah, but 7 and 9 got a groovy thing goin' on!!

And now 7 carpools with 9 to pickup their monthly Valtrexx prescriptions ;)
 

RGN

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Originally posted by: SuperTool
Let me get this straight. You compliment this "Cindy" chick for being a safety conscious person and wearing kneepads, and you get written up for sexual harrasment?

Thats what I'm talking about. I would have told them to fire me, or let me get back to work.