Posted on 09/23/2005 12:38:17 PM PDT by Help!
Screaming and yelling by men at work
I agree it shouldn't be sexual discrimination or harrassment, but anyone who yells and screams at coworkers, or the people they supervise, should be canned on the spot.""
Did the article say that the yelling was at coworkers? Or just yelling? If just yelling, and not at someone in particular, this seems like a way over the edge of reasonable to me. I yell at myself all the time when I do something that causes more work, etc.
I said I didn't agree with the court decision. My comment was a sidebar, simply stating that people, whomever it is, that flies into fits of anger and rage at fellow-workers, should be canned. Obviously I've touched a nerve, considering the grief I've gotten from some on this thread. It makes me think they may be perpetrators of hostile working environments themselves.
Totally agree. A sexual harassment charge is wrong for this conduct, but it doesn't make it right. There's better ways to handle it- I used to have a boss who seemed to "get his jollies" by screaming at and intimidating the workers, on an almost daily basis regardless of if they did anything wrong or not. I happened to be working at the office on a day that the boss's wife stopped in to visit her husband. The phone rang, I answered it, it was the boss's mistress. Somehow, I "accidentally" forgot office-protocol and yelled across the room "Mr. (blank), Julie's on line one for you!". For the next 10 minutes, all I heard was the wife screaming and yelling "Who's Julie??!! That's it!!". Needless to say, it was my last day working there, but I was so proud of the way I went out.
Years ago, I had a female manager, who I knew to be a brown belt in judo, threaten to beat the crap out of me. She said this half jokingly. I think she was on a power trip and wanted to see if she could intimidate me
My response to her was that I would treat a female martial artist who initiated violence exactly the same as I would treat a man who initiated violence against me -- namely that I would pick up the nearest chair and smash it across her face.
She was somewhat taken aback, and did not threaten me again
Congress should defund the 9th circuit. It is an absolute joke.
You don't think that what they really want is to win enough money to be able to quit their jobs and post on DU all day?
The fact that they may REACT differently, does not mean they were treated differently.
LOL! Too easy.
If she was joking around, like you said, I think it was rather crude of you to tell her you were going to smash a chair across her face. You were the one who was being threatening in that situation, not her.
And I'd bet he wouldn't have thrown it at another guy. Intimidation in an office (or any work area) can be more than sexual. Last year, some guy threatened to ram his truck into my car when I and 4 kids were in it (he said I 'took' his parking spot, which I didn't). My husband said he wouldn't have done that if he were in the car with me...and it's true. Some guys get off on scaring women.
holy crap... there is no end to their foolishness, is there?
This pic is hillarious...
Thanks. I needed the laugh right now.
Do you realize what reaping of financial contentment that could have been achieved by the inventor if only the name would have been changed? ; )
Maybe so, but the ERs would be filled every Saturday night with guys suffering from wind shear :)
Once again, the competent are denigrated in perpetuity by a sniveling minority with creative lawyers.
"Yes, individual people with a mind of their own who just happen to tote an ecstatic beauty appealing to men.
D@mn that sucks doesn't it?"
Hmm...My answer to that question is wholly dependent on the answer to another question: which men? Cuz I, personally, can't take comfort in the notion that, say, Ted Kennedy or Al Franken want to check out my rack.
Half-joking is what I said. She had a rep for being physically aggressive
This is ridiculous if there isn't a law to cover it, and the disparate treatment law somehow didn't take into account that men were treated the same way.
They handled it differently we're told.
Does that mean now that disparate treatment, treating folks differently, actually does mean treating them differently?
This is beyond ignorant. It doesn't just require the redefinition of words. It requires them to mean one thing sometimes and other things at other times.
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