Good Point. When I defaulted to the dir. of IT at my company, (I was the only one left in a downsizine, I have no staff), I was shocked and appauled that they forced me to go to a sexual harrassment seminar. Them I found it was state law.
At my company, sexual harrasment is in the eye of the beholder, so anything discomforting about the workplace can be deemed sexual harrassment by those go so far as someone touching someone too much or a poster of a hot chick leeringly promoting a chat site on a CD cover can be considered harrasment. Lawsuits scare companies. All money must go to stockholders.
Their answer has been to have zero tolerance policies against SH.
I found myself telling another manager that a screen saver on one of his users' machines was could be considered offensive to others that might see it (it's a 50's pinup photo with a woman wearing stockings.
Then again, one guy and the guy I replaced were notorius for downloading porn at work.
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Good Point. When I defaulted to the dir. of IT at my company, (I was the only one left in a downsizine, I have no staff), I was shocked and appauled that they forced me to go to a sexual harrassment seminar. Them I found it was state law.
At my company, sexual harrasment is in the eye of the beholder, so anything discomforting about the workplace can be deemed sexual harrassment by those go so far as someone touching someone too much or a poster of a hot chick leeringly promoting a chat site on a CD cover can be considered harrasment. Lawsuits scare companies. All money must go to stockholders.
Their answer has been to have zero tolerance policies against SH.
I found myself telling another manager that a screen saver on one of his users' machines was could be considered offensive to others that might see it (it's a 50's pinup photo with a woman wearing stockings.
Then again, one guy and the guy I replaced were notorius for downloading porn at work.
Ramble, ramble ramble...