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To: factoryrat

You probably are making your HR person crazy, if she is a female. She’s already made a note in your folder about you and dubbed you passive-aggressive! LOL I know because I handle HR for our small company, and that is exactly what I did with an engineer who used to work here. He wouldn’t look you in the eye, or give a straight answer about anything. I just let my husband handle him, and he finally quit. Nobody was sorry.

I have another one just like him, and I won’t be sorry if he leaves. The one I have now is the only person who ever swore out a sexual harassment complaint in the 50 year history this company — over teasing that some of the assembly line women directed his way. The complaint? The ladies used to whistle the “Lassie Song” whenever he walked by. My husband and looked at each other increduously. The Lassie Song? How is that sexual harassment? Well, it seems that he married one of them who was not popular with the others, but who didn’t work here anymore; and The Lassie Song was supposed to suggest that he followed his wife around like a little dog.

We didn’t “get it” either, but we suspended the whistle instigator for a week, and he seemed satisfied. The 2 of them still work for us 12 years later. He is still at the beck and call of his wife, but we are a small company and can roll with it.


13 posted on 11/05/2011 3:34:08 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
The plant that I work at has a 60/40 ratio of women to men. The name of the game there is cold and professional. If you veer from that path for even a split second, you're looking at termination at best, or a lawsuit at worst. Yeah, it's that bad anymore. If the work environment has become so hostile to men, to the point that we can't even communicate with female co-workers without running the risk of being sued into oblivion, over some perceived slight, then you might as well pack it up and go home.
14 posted on 11/05/2011 3:55:31 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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