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To: AppyPappy

I was a manager in an industry where the workforce was 85% female. I got dragged to the quarterly Sexual Harassment Get Your Minds Right Seminars.

-Don’t say they look nice.
-Don’t crack any jokes.
-Don’t make eye contact for more than four seconds.

Meanwhile I would routinely walk into employee lunchroom conversations about sex that would turn me beet red.


6 posted on 10/17/2017 10:24:52 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I was a manager in an industry where the workforce was 85% female. I got dragged to the quarterly Sexual Harassment Get Your Minds Right Seminars. -Don’t say they look nice. -Don’t crack any jokes. -Don’t make eye contact for more than four seconds. Meanwhile I would routinely walk into employee lunchroom conversations about sex that would turn me beet red.

The ridiculousness of political correctness et al

9 posted on 10/17/2017 10:27:06 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Meanwhile I would routinely walk into employee lunchroom conversations about sex that would turn me beet red.

That, of course, constitutes sexual harassment of YOU, by way of creating a hostile workplace environment.

17 posted on 10/17/2017 10:34:40 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I was telling my 5th grade daughter that if I were leading a group of people who had a big presentation to a customer and a women on the team showed up wearing a bikini I would pretend I didn't notice and when she presented every other man in the room would also pretend they didn't notice. She thought that was insane and I was full of it. So I said "when we get home, let's ask your mom what she think I should do in that scenario." I did ask her and her response: "don't say anything, pretend you don't notice".

Because that's how scared men are of women now days. Even if we know we are 100% in the right, we also know that we will be jettisoned in a new york minute of some women says her feelings were hurt. Somehow having all men treat women as land mines to be walked around very gently is good for women. Somehow.

34 posted on 10/17/2017 3:20:08 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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To: Buckeye McFrog; NorthMountain

-Don’t say they look nice.
-Don’t crack any jokes.
-Don’t make eye contact for more than four seconds.
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If you follow THOSE guidelines you can bet they will say you are creating a hostile work place because you don’t speak to them unless they speak to you and that is only to answer a direct question or return a ‘hello’.

I went through that with ‘office personnel’ but at the time and with the owners, I was ‘worth more’ to the company than them BUT they(owners) agreed I should keep my office time to a minimum.


36 posted on 10/17/2017 3:42:05 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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