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My employer insisted on man... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Stephen Macklin | July 30, 2006 6:16 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
My employer insisted on mandatory sexual harassment training despite my insistence that I had already mastered that skill.
1. Posted by Stephen Macklin | July 30, 2006 6:16 PM |
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Posted on July 30, 2006 18:16
2. Posted by Kathy K | July 30, 2006 7:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Long ago, at a company I once worked for, the department I worked in had a little sign on my wall that said 'sexual harrassment is not reported here, it's graded.'
Sigh. Somehow, I never got sexually harrassed there. ;)
PC police eventually made us take it down - along with every other bit of humor in the place. I quit about 6 months later - a year after that, no one I had worked with was still in that department.
3 years later, I checked around and no-one in the whole section I had worked in was still there. That division filed bankruptcy not long after that...
2. Posted by Kathy K | July 30, 2006 7:28 PM |
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Posted on July 30, 2006 19:28
3. Posted by Ric | July 30, 2006 9:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The best cure for workplace violence is to require employees to be armed.
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942
Curious - does your company accept that they will provide for your security in the event of workplace violence?
3. Posted by Ric | July 30, 2006 9:04 PM |
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Posted on July 30, 2006 21:04
4. Posted by Richard | July 30, 2006 10:53 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Did they think "James Jones" is so generic that there is no such person? I have a co-worker named James Jones. He lives with the Jim Jones references all the time. Now I guess he has another burden.
4. Posted by Richard | July 30, 2006 10:53 PM |
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Posted on July 30, 2006 22:53
5. Posted by jpm100 | July 31, 2006 1:07 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Was the video for your work as a blogger or your paying job?
Just want to be clear.
5. Posted by jpm100 | July 31, 2006 1:07 AM |
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Posted on July 31, 2006 01:07
6. Posted by Faith+1 | July 31, 2006 8:56 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
As burdensome names go James Jones isn't so bad. I once worked with a guy named Tony Boner...
6. Posted by Faith+1 | July 31, 2006 8:56 AM |
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Posted on July 31, 2006 08:56
7. Posted by Candy | July 31, 2006 3:58 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Once again, the pendulum swings too far. I heard from a friend the other day that a VERY nice man she works with made a comment in front of a female coworker and is now up on sexual harrassment charges. He may lose his job. Apparently, someone mentioned that things had to be moved so the carpets could be cleaned. His response, "I'll clean YOUR carpet!" - from what I'm told, he meant it more like "I'll clean your clock", but now he's up on charges.
On the other end of the spectrum - I was about 22, a young mother, and was the sec. to the prez of a small corporation. The prez and vp of ops took turns chasing me around the desk - and grabbing my ass, but I needed the job until I was able to find another one. That was before anyone cared about sexual harrassment.
I have no idea where I'm going with this... LOL
But did any of you see The Office episode about Sexual Harrassment? It was hysterical.
7. Posted by Candy | July 31, 2006 3:58 PM |
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Posted on July 31, 2006 15:58
8. Posted by Candy | July 31, 2006 4:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Incidentally, talking about burdensome names - you have to love Dick Trickle of NASCAR fame.
8. Posted by Candy | July 31, 2006 4:00 PM |
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Posted on July 31, 2006 16:00