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Report: Netflix Bans Employees from Looking at Each Other for More Than Five Seconds
National Review ^ | June 14, 2018 | Katherine Timpf

Posted on 06/15/2018 7:31:56 AM PDT by EdnaMode

This is completely ridiculous and could end up hurting more than it helps. Netflix has reportedly banned workers from looking at each other for more than five seconds as part of its new anti-harassment rules.

The new policy also bans the company’s film crews from asking their colleagues for their phone numbers, according to an article in the Sun.

“Senior staff went to a harassment meeting to learn what is and isn’t appropriate,” an on-set runner told the Sun. “Looking at anyone longer than five seconds is considered creepy.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: harassment; netflix; staring
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To: EdnaMode

But.... but they are actively SHOWING FILMS with people looking at each other, and INTO CAMERAS, even, as a part of their business!! It’s like the tobacco companies asking their employees not to smoke!


81 posted on 06/15/2018 9:17:30 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: TADSLOS

“Good question. Is there a cumulative time clock?”

The jokes just write themselves on this ridiculous topic.

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82 posted on 06/15/2018 9:19:59 AM PDT by Mears
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To: gigster

Is there a limit to how many 5 second gazes you can take in a minute? Or an hour?


83 posted on 06/15/2018 9:23:45 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Steely Tom
Does this mean that any employee can file a harassment complaint with HR if she experiences eye contact longer than five seconds?

Who is the Official Time Keeper for these glances?

84 posted on 06/15/2018 9:25:00 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Apparently I voted demoncrat for 40 years. They all wore 'R' jerseys! 'R'atpublicans!)
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To: Mears

Staff meetings must be hilarious. “Everyone take your seats and stare down at your lap...”


85 posted on 06/15/2018 9:25:00 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: EdnaMode

Very Hillary Clintonesque except hers is no looking at her at all.


86 posted on 06/15/2018 9:33:49 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: EdnaMode

What if the stare police stares at the starer more than 5 seconds?
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Well that’s true. The Stare Police would have to be staring at the starer more than 5 seconds to know that he was staring more than 5 seconds. Perhaps we need a Stare Force to monitor the Stare Police.


87 posted on 06/15/2018 9:36:26 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: EdnaMode

Going to put a crimp on sex at the office guess blind folds will be required.


88 posted on 06/15/2018 9:44:15 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: EdnaMode

In middle school we would just say “take a picture, it lasts longer” if someone was staring at us.

Maybe they should have a “human interaction at grade school level” training day for their employees instead of trying to police this stupid rule.


89 posted on 06/15/2018 9:47:54 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: gigster

Gonna make for an interesting, yet unproductive, workday...


90 posted on 06/15/2018 9:56:00 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: EdnaMode

91 posted on 06/15/2018 10:10:45 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: \/\/ayne

Myrna Loy’s face is the best in all of those. The thing I can’t figure out about women - that sociopathy.

They can turn it on and off.


92 posted on 06/15/2018 10:14:19 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: EdnaMode

Netflix has reportedly banned workers from looking at each other for more than five seconds

Just like some celebrities and politicians don’t want the lower classes to look at them.


93 posted on 06/15/2018 10:38:33 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: EdnaMode

Maybe with less staring they can concentrate more on getting better than Z-grade movies on their streaming service...


94 posted on 06/15/2018 10:54:27 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: LydiaLong

LOL. Yup.


95 posted on 06/15/2018 11:14:09 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: TADSLOS

I’ll give her this: She does that very well, LOL.

It was freaky the first time I saw one of her videos.


96 posted on 06/15/2018 11:17:03 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Yaelle

[Is there a limit to how many 5 second gazes you can take in a minute? Or an hour?]

No more than 12 per minute.

Or 720 per hour! ;)


97 posted on 06/15/2018 11:29:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Be Careful

Good question!


98 posted on 06/15/2018 11:44:29 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: SaveFerris

Whew, I can still work at Netflix then. Cause I blink every 4 seconds.


99 posted on 06/15/2018 11:44:37 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Gamecock

One of the benefits of being an “ass man”!


100 posted on 06/15/2018 11:48:30 AM PDT by 21twelve
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