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A good friend might lose his job because he was caught motioning for me to look at a woman at work, which made her uncomfortable
- Thread starter BlackFyre
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I misread what you wrote. I screwed up. I'm sorry.
User Banned (Permanent): Dismissing concerns from women, ignoring context. Prior infractions for similar behaviour. Account in junior phase.
Lol, for checking someone out? Thats not harassment. By that logic when I wore a V-neck at work on Friday, I had several women looking at my upper chest (I lift bro) - should they all be fired too?
Unless he was pointing and properly signalling then the issue seems to be acknowledging attraction in the workplace?
Unless he was pointing and properly signalling then the issue seems to be acknowledging attraction in the workplace?
The issue is people being made uncomfortable in the workplace. I once got my bottom pinched by a young woman I didn't know in a primarily male office. I didn't feel uncomfortable in context so she got away with it. That was unprofessional behaviour nonetheless.
Sounds like you need some HR guidance too. Staring and directing someone else to stare too, in the presence of the person being stared at, is harassment.
But you'd know that it was more than checking someone out if you'd have read the OP
Also, I predicted that we'd arrive at "She shouldn't have worn that" some pages back.
User Banned (2 Weeks): Harassment; history of severe infractions.
Also, don't tell the person you're breaking up with that that's your new angle. It makes you look like trash.
I've never seen a "Meen gurl, poor guy :(" thread that didn't exceed 10 pages.
It's incredible. The OP is a detailed account of a woman being sexually harassed and we still got nearly 30 pages out of it.
This thread is incredible. I'm convinced it's still open as a ploy by mods to let the shitheads out themselves and make their jobs easier.
Wait, guys, steamed hams proposed something interesting.
What if the complete 10 from the OP lifts, bro? Wouldn't that make it okay?
What if the complete 10 from the OP lifts, bro? Wouldn't that make it okay?
If the complete 10 wears a v-neck, how could anyone help it.
I haven't had a chance to read every post in the thread but I'm assuming it's filled with people saying there's absolutely nothing wrong with what OP's friend did? Because there totally is. I don't think he should get fired but gesturing to someone to check out how hot someone else is is harassment. I'd feel pretty uncomfortable if someone did that to me.
There's a beautiful irony about someone who exaggerates losing a job as being executed and then complains about exaggerations.
I wouldn't say filled, but there's a fair number of them, the OP included (albeit he bailed awhile back after his subsequent attempts to explain himself just made things worse), that seems to think there's nothing wrong with the behavior.
I just want to add that in my company an identical scenario as presented in the OP was specifically used in an example of sexual harassment during training. If you leer at a coworker and they don't like it, it's sexual harassment. Should at the very minimum get a warning and a reminder to grow up.
And as someone who got leered at by coworkers and customers (among other things) when I was a young athletic guy, it did make me very uncomfortable.
