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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!mikejag!pally
- From: pally@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (Pally Hoffstein)
- Subject: Re: on the job
- Organization: mikejag (mike) is a private system in Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:40:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.084034.4639@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Keywords: pretty co-worker dammit!
- References: <1992Dec20.015420.23999@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca> <269@cnmhnet.UUCP>
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- In article <269@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.015420.23999@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca> pally@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (Pally Hoffstein) writes:
- >>Hi everyone. I have a question.
- >>Anyone out there have any thoughts or experiences relating to asking out
- >>co-workers? Any advice would be appreciated.
- >>Vancouver, Canada
- >
- >Hey Pally! Since you are in Canada, I don't know what they
- >feel about sexual harrassment up there, but in the USA, you
- >risk being charged with it if the girl reacts in a negative way.
- >No, although even a year ago, it would have been OK to ask the
- >girl out, since the Anita Hill controversy, and with public
- >opinion seemingly believing any accusers of sexual harrasment
- >whether proven or not, you would be better off just ignoring the
- >girl, unless you see her in a public place. Find out where
- >she hangs out, and happen to run into her there. Then I think
- >you might be safe from any potential liability problems with
- >sexual harrassment.
- >--Keith
-
- Good heavens! Has the world really become so paranoid? Asking someout is not
- harassment. If I continue to ask her out after she states that she's not
- interested then it becomes harassment.
- I don't think it would be a problem, not in this society in whick I live. If
- that's how it is in the USA that's one more reason I'm glad I don't live
- there.
- I work as a computer instructor and she works in the
- English-as-a-second-language department. It's not like I'd be hitting on a
- receptionist or someone new there. She's officially my senior, though in a
- different department.
-
- Casual flirtation is pretty common at the school where I work; I'm not
- worried about harrassment accusations.
-
- I'm more concerned about office gossip, office politics and over-exposure to
- someone new in my life if something positive should happen.
-
- Most e-mail I've recieved on the topic are along the lines of "GO FOR IT!" but
- "GO SLOW!". I'll go for it but I'll use my head.
-
- Hafta wait for January though.
-
- Pally
- Vancouver, Canada
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