Sexual Harassment @ Work

[bluecuracao]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

Hot tea served by the cute male assistant....no wait...that's sexual harrasment huh?

If you grab his package, and he doesn't like it, it is. Otherwise, it sounds like a nice set up...

[DucksNuts]

Thats how I define sexual harassment in *my* work place.

If I dont like it, its harassment (which could just mean I dont find you hot enough), if you dont like it....theres the door honey.

[skysidhe]

About the word honey.

When handed out like candy from strangers it annoys me but I wouldn't call it harrassment.

I do like the word honey in intimate personal ways though.


@Blue...I don't have that set up. It was just a nice image.

@ ducks...do you mean grabbing his package or making hot tea ? :p

[DanaC]

Or, grabbing his package whilst he makes hot tea?

[Cloud]

well, spilling hot tea on his package would definitely be harassment of some kind.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You do realize the conversation in the last 5 posts constitutes sexual harassment, by creating an uncomfortable work environment, in todays corporate America.

[DanaC]

well, spilling hot tea on his package would definitely be harassment of some kind.

I think you just defined English porn.

[be-bop]

So how do you define harrassment from general work banter we're all supposed to adults in the work place it's got so bad now with the PC brigade now that most people can't define where the line is drawn so everything is banned.
I have worked in my office for over 20 years and we are no longer allowed ofice parties at Xmas because the orginisation is scared of getting sued if someone gets drunk and falls over.Office romances are a sackable offence..nights out are frowned upon as employment law considers them to be an extention of the workplace and if anything happens again the employer is worried about litigation.
It's all complete bullshit.

[theotherguy]

What be-bop said!

[BrianR]

Too many people have too-thin skin!

That's MY take on it.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Cloud

well, spilling hot tea on his package would definitely be harassment of some kind.

Originally Posted by DanaC

I think you just defined English porn.

As in Monty Python's english comedy porn?


I've not watched porn but I am assuming our english porn uses whip cream, chocolate, honey or some other sweet thing or immediatly bypassing the scalding hot touture and and warping in to s&m.

[bluecuracao]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You do realize the conversation in the last 5 posts constitutes sexual harassment, by creating an uncomfortable work environment, in todays corporate America.

Uh huh, that's why I don't talk that way at work.

Oh wait, I was at work when I posted my little comment.

But seriously...I've only heard talk like that at one, maybe two places I've worked (except it was about women, not men). Practically all of the co-workers I've ever had could think of plenty of other things to talk about, besides how much they liked someone's ta-tas, or whatever.

One place where I worked, there was a guy who could think of little else to talk about. It was weird--every time he'd make a comment, he'd look at me with this creepy smile, as if he was waiting for me to react, I guess. I never did, though. One day, he proudly showed me the bikini girl calendar he had just posted in our office. Was he hoping I'd say he should take it down? I suspected he did, especially after what happened the next day. He walked into the office in the morning to see a Chippendale's calendar right next to his girlie one...and he got so upset he turned bright red. (I was surprised, I thought he'd have more of sense of humor about it. Oh well.)

He took down his calendar (I was nice and took mine down, too), and he never made a rude comment to me ever again. In fact, we kind of became friends after that.

[DanaC]

So how do you define harrassment from general work banter we're all supposed to adults in the work place it's got so bad now with the PC brigade now that most people can't define where the line is drawn so everything is banned.
I have worked in my office for over 20 years and we are no longer allowed ofice parties at Xmas because the orginisation is scared of getting sued if someone gets drunk and falls over.Office romances are a sackable offence..nights out are frowned upon as employment law considers them to be an extention of the workplace and if anything happens again the employer is worried about litigation.

I must admit most places I've worked in haven't had that much of a problem with that stuff. The last formal job I had, we all just used to take the piss out of each other. Sometimes the banter got a little blue about the edges, nobody minded. Richard, for instance, used to do a belting impression of Michael Palin in LIfe of Brian and so was ever more christened Biggus Dickus. Wendy was always The Tart with a Heart. Parties generally involved a lot of alcohol and a theme for dressing up and someone always ended up snogging. Nobody minded. Management pretty much left us to it. Except for the centre manager who joined in. I will never forget her standing on a table, dressed in a party frock belting out show tunes (she used to sing and dance on cruise liners).

We were a bitchy bunch and someone was always upset with someone else......but I only recall one guy getting accused of sexual harrassment. Or rather i got told the story, happened a few years before my time. He still worked at the chambers, but hadn't got the promotion he wanted. He put it down to having been accused of harrassment (probably justified knowing bob) everyone else put it down to him being a) a miserable bugger, b) a bit creepy, in a he-probably-has-an-ex-wife-buried-under-the-patio kind of a way and c) general incompetance.

[jester]

we have a local radio station with a male dj who has been, for the last few days, talking about taking the female dj to a nudist colony/camp this week. he has been there before (i don't think he truly practices this type of lifestyle) he's just making a big joke out of it. she, if i understand correctly, is as well. needless to say they get all sorts of calls during their "time on the radio" asking about photos and such - would this constitute harassment or because she doesn't make a fuss, no biggie. could this cause "flack" for the radio station - i doubt it - it seems like a glorified way of getting "listeners" for their station.

[Cloud]

yeah, I think that's a special case