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Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace?
zwei2stein writes "My team of about 10 men (IT guys) is expecting a new colleague: a female one. It is guaranteed that there will be remarks, double entendres and innuendos with huge potential of getting worse. We already have women in teams who can somehow handle this (and deliver apropriate verbal slaps). How would you deal with this? We talked about some simple, fun ways — anyone who [acts inappropriately] will have to wear an embarassing tie, etc. — instead of swear jar, having a sexual innuendo jar and even fairly harsh punishments (like people losing their bonuses for the month or their extra vaccation days). I'd like to figure out a solution that would be effective, not call much attention to itself, and not be quickly abandoned." What has your workplace done to create a good culture on this front? And what hasn't worked?
Don't hire chicks.
(It's a joke, relax.)
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We do. So we just don't hire females. Not because they're female, of course, but because we always find a better qualified male. Not our fault.
What a sad world indeed. If guys behave this way in general, perhaps it's a problem with the legal system and not guys. Hyper-sensitivity it's just sickening. Now we have to pay a "professional" way too much money to tell people how to not act like human beings. So sorry I am a man and biologically driven to think about sex all the time, I'll bury it like you ask, that's probably going to work out in the end. Perhaps women shouldn't have been given a loaded gun called sexual harassment.
That being said, it is what it is, you better fix it, women can destroy your business and that is a sad state of affairs.
YOU DON"T HAVE THE RIGHT TO NOT BE OFFENDED, IF WE LET THIS GO ON WE ARE OPENING TO DOOR TO MORE NONSENSE.
No wonder men don't care often for working with women. You have to bend to the lowest common denominator as far as 'feelings' go....legally.
Guys can't be guys in the workplace....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
And what should have been the proper response to this?
Tell the crying woman, after an explanation (maybe she didn't 'get it' for some reason)...after a point, to get over it. It is a fucking joke.
It isn't your fault someone misunderstands things or has such a thin skin and likely will cry if too many flies are swatted on the window sill.
In the case you laid out...there was no harassment....they need to get over it, and quit wasting company time crying over nothing...and get some work done.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
This man's coworkers probably just think they're having good clean fun and that they're "keeping it real" in the face of what they feel to be phony soul-tarnishing political correctness.
Well to hell with their "realness" and their "feelings". Their attitude is pathetic.
However, it's hard to really walk in another's shoes sometimes.
Which is why the far easier route of adhering to a accepted standard of maturity and professionalism is the way to go. Don't harass people. Don't have your "fun" at the expense of someone else's ability to their job without unwanted and needless distraction.
And you won't see ever ever EVER a man complaining about this if and when it happens. Men adapt to their environments instead of wanting the environment to adapt to themselves. Women complain way too much, and as long as they keep seeing themselves as victims they will never be considered equal.