Catherine wrote: > Same thing with telling someone they > looked good today - is it sexual harassment? Are you > implying that I don't *always* look good? Are you > giving me special treatment because I'm *different* > somehow? Does that make you a racist/sexist/whatever? > Are you implying that everyone else looks like crap? > What's the hidden agenda?
Hmm, sounds like the training manual must have been from the same source ;-) What do you think of all this? I think it's really kind of nuts. All I've seen it do is give more opportunistic people a chance to make some quick money off a company. After our training, some people were just looking under rocks to catch something to be offended about and perhaps make a claim. We had a young guy and woman in the office who became a couple for two years. They openly held hands and hugged each other in the office and lived together for a time. He started cheating on her and wanted to dump her and then had the audacity to try to lodge a sexual harassment complaint against her. He did not succeed, but geez. Another guy wanted to lodge a complaint against an woman employee because she referred to an Asian friend of her daughter as "oriental" in his presence. Yes, it is the wrong term to use, but a person from an older generation doesn't always know better and certainly does not have ill intent in using the wrong terminology. I think people should be sensitive but some of this stuff is crazy. Kakki
