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- From: keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: on the job
- Message-ID: <273@cnmhnet.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:17:07 GMT
- References: <BzJFsx.6Ew@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> <1992Dec20.033735.19219@news.eng.convex.com> <3593@voodoo.UUCP>
- Organization: California-Nevada Methodist Homes
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- In article <3593@voodoo.UUCP> das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz) writes:
- >Well, where I work, asking a co-worker out most certainly is not sexual
- >harassment. However, continuing to pester that coworker after he/she says
- >no is.
- >Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.ca.boeing.com // ....uw-beaver!bcsaic!voodoo!das
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- Oh Deb, I wish it was that simple. Sexual harrassment, the charge, has
- several factors which help to define it, one of which is "the unwanted
- advances of another..." Now, the term "advances" is open to interpretation,
- along with much of the rules regarding sexual harrassment. So sexual
- harrassment might mean one thing to you, and another thing to another
- female. Some females will get offended by a man saying "nice dress".
- He might not mean anything by it, and yet, that simple compliment can
- cost him his job, if delivered to the wrong female. So how is a
- man to know which females are super sensitive and which are not? He
- doesn't know until it is too late.
- I've seen females get completely grossed out if a guy she thinks is
- just awful attempted to ask her out. He only asked her out, and yet
- she reacted horribly. Sexual harassment? Maybe, with a good lawyer.
- No, although in most cases a simple question of availability for a
- date would be OK, it is better not to chance it because one never know
- what mod the female would be in at the time of reception.
- --Keith
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