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| 8 Feb 10, 12:27 PM Iphis_me UK(E), 4 yrs   |
My reading of the link in the OP is that it is a news report of a process that is taking place not any of the people involved going to the papers per se. Also, it's not unusual for people to experience harassment for quite a long time before stepping forward and saying anything about it and there can be a number of reasons for this - feeling that one would be branded a troublemaker for speaking up (very common, I made a complaint of sexual harassment 12 years ago and still work in the same company, the reputation has stayed with me), feeling that one's complaint wouldn't be taken seriously, not wanting to admit to being unable to deal with the situation, embarrassment at what has taken place, all kinds of reasons. If it becomes clear that a certain individual has a pattern of behaviour it would not be that surprising for other people who have experienced it but chosen not to take it up for some reason - quite possibly because they thought it was only them it had happened to - to come forward with their own experiences. It is also true, as someone else pointed out in this thread, that the press will pick up on the most salacious detail available - in this case the "whiplash" comment - to make a headline. In my case, a rumour had gone round that myself and a female colleague were having a sexual relationship, this was a tiny detail in a whole catalogue of harassment that she and I had experienced but one newspaper chose to headline their story "*&$% girls lesbian sex hell" (the story itself IIRC had come via Reuters and was a pretty accurate report, but the headline was ridiculous). "The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates | |||
| 8 Feb 10, 7:52 PM Trussedworthy UK(NW), 5 yrs |
Next time I hear of a vacancy at work you're the first one I'm telling | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 1:05 PM searcher1 UK(N), 7 yrs |
Now that would be amusing at a tribunal! Scan the office for the red faces. LOL Michael It never hurts, it only tingles (yeah right!) | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 3:27 PM MsSlide UK(RH), 12 yrs £ |
When I worked in an office, I was of the view that my male colleagues had the right to make off-colour remarks in my presence as long as I had the right to respond with something equally insulting and the occasional knee to the groin. This is why I don't work in offices any more. | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 3:28 PM Miss_Dee UK(L), 4 yrs   |
I am sure if you contact Allan he will furnish you with his criteria for joining his harem. You don't know until you try...... Miss D Miss D | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 5:52 PM wonderer UK, 5 yrs |
This thread seems to have been surprisingly unfrequented by those whose political philosophy holds that an employer should be able to hire and fire for any reason they choose, unrestrained by laws on equality of opportuniy, harrassment, fair dealing etc; those who claim it is no business of the public or the state or even the employee to question or criticise their crietria. Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/226772/ | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 8:21 PM SirLashleyS UK(S), 4 yrs |
Patience, don't put 'em off, just give it time... The silky-smooth soothing voice of reason and logic. (You WILL feel much better and speak more sense while very securely tied-up...) | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 8:23 PM Diablos_patience UK, 5 yrs |
Thats because no children or animals were harmed in the making of this thread..... *rolls eys*
~* Raku wa ku no tané; ku wa raku no tané. *~ | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 8:40 PM Londonista UK(E), 2 yrs |
Too right too. What right has he to sexualise her behaviour in the workplace? It demeans her, her position within the company and is totally unacceptable. | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 8:53 PM misfit UK, 3 yrs |
I must work in the last politically incorrect workplace in Britain. I regularly hear strong insults to other members of staff, the girls' stroke my hair which I could take as harrassment but just let them get on with it. I also get a lot of comments with regards to pillow talk because I do not speak estuary English.
As far as I am concerned it is all banter but where I am the girls' definitely have the upper hand M Space travels in my blood. And there ain't nothing I can do about it. |
