JOEBIALEK Posted July 31, 2004 Posted July 31, 2004 Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment. Source: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-sex.html For the first time in his 25 years of employment, a female employee has made a verbal allegation of sexual harassment against a male friend of mine. "John" was notified of this by his immediate supervisor via an email. The email did not indicate an incident or complaint but rather was framed in the context of "feedback" advising John to be carefull when it comes to dealing with female employees. It went on to say that comments, compliments, innuendos, flirting, wandering eyes, etc. can be misperceived and possibly jeapordize his job. Needless to say, John was absolutely astounded. He immediately approached his supervisor and demanded clarification. The supervisor indicated that a female employee had verbalized the allegation. He then clarified his position on the matter by stating that he has never witnessed any such behavior by John nor believes any incident occurred. What bothers John however, is why was the email sent in the first place? Does it constitute some form of written warning? The employee handbook states that standard operating procedure requires a verbal warning first and then written warning followed by a final written warning and then termination. Were John's civil rights violated? The work environment today in the United States is becoming more and more polarized. Women are flagrantly disregarding company dress codes in order to flaunt there sexuality. It was interesting to discover how narrowly defined sexual harassment has become. A clause in the code mentions "visual harassment"; defined as any display that promotes the sexuality of what is depicted, or draws attention to the private parts of the body, even if there is partial clothing. Consequently, men are flagrantly disregarding verbal and visual inhibitions as they react to the sexual stimulus. The question that remains however, is which side constitutes criminality? Is it the sexual provocation or is it the sexual reaction? Do wandering male eyes encourage women to dress more provocatively or does female attire encourage wandering male eyes? Does a loose verbal atmosphere in the work place exacerbate the problem? Would clamping down constitute a violation of freedom of speech? What about the constant bombardment of sexual messages facilitated through various media? The 1960's ushered in the sexual revolution. Perhaps it is time for the counter revolution.
Andrew Posted July 31, 2004 Posted July 31, 2004 The supervisor should be fired. You never send e-mials with that kind of importance attached to them. Supervisor should have confronted your friend ::) in privacy.He immediately approached his supervisor and demanded clarification.John should not have done that. Yes he should have confronted the supervisor as soon as possible, but you don't simply go find your supervisor and start demanding answers after you read the email. If the supervisor was not in a private place then it would be wrong.The supervisor indicated that a female employee had verbalized the allegation. He then clarified his position on the matter by stating that he has never witnessed any such behavior by John nor believes any incident occurred.If any employee states some form of harassment, a supervisor has to do something about it no matter what. Whether it is an email (which is the wrong thing to do, as it is informal) or in person. Just because the supervisor didn't witness the harassment doesn't mean it didn't happen.What bothers John however, is why was the email sent in the first place?Because the supervisor is a bad supervisor. But the supervisor had to do something about it. Maybe it is company policy to send emails to people instead of face-face interaction.The employee handbook states that standard operating procedure requires a verbal warning first and then written warning followed by a final written warning and then termination.Proves what I said about the supervisor being stupid and should be fired.Were John's civil rights violated?It's a job, people make mistakes, lets not get all revolutionary about it. Simply fire/punish the supervisor (or send him to a seminar about how to be a good supervisor).Women are flagrantly disregarding company dress codes in order to flaunt there sexuality. Obviously woman are not following the dress code and thus should be told to follow it or be fired. Same goes for men. It is the companies fault for not enforcing the dress code.The rest of the argument has too much BS attached. If a company does not enforce the rules, then it is not the employees fault.And my question is are you a bot?http://www.google.ca/search?q=JOEBIALEK+sexual+harassment&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=I think people would respect you more if you actually replied to one of your own threads in a non bot way and interacted with someone.Yours Sincerely,Andrew
erjin999 Posted July 31, 2004 Posted July 31, 2004 Nice one Andrew. What is that freak thing ? Going around posting the same stuff everywhere !(Do you google many people like that ?)
Andrew Posted July 31, 2004 Posted July 31, 2004 I already googled him with his last thread.http://www.dune2k.com/forum/index.php?topic=14954.0As for googling other people, no not very often unless it is important.
nemafakei Posted July 31, 2004 Posted July 31, 2004 Prevent it from starting new threads, allow it only to post in existing ones.
ordos45 Posted July 31, 2004 Posted July 31, 2004 Prevent it from starting new threads, allow it only to post in existing ones.Unsure how to do that. So I'm going to just keep using the Lock Button until I figure out how, if I ever can. Still haven't figured out Posts Per Day...
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