Sexual harassment & Hostile Working Environments?
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You should keep immaculate records of everything.  Specifically, keep a journal where you record any and all instances of possible sexual harassment.\n\nWith the required compliments regarding your supervisor's appearance, you will definitely have a case.  You need to establish on the record that you have objected to the behavior and asked that it stop, however.  Tell her directly that her request makes you uncomfortable, and then follow up with an email.  Print that email, and keep it in your records.\n\nRemember that you need to be able to prove anything you allege.  Otherwise, she will just say things didn't happen, and if there's no proof, then there's no case.\n\nHopefully, she will stop the behavior when you ask her to, but if she doesn't, you should contact the EEOC.  See http://www.eeoc.gov for full information about filing a complaint.  Try to resolve the issue internally first though in good faith by asking that the behavior stop.  If it doesn't, that's when you go external and file a complaint.\n\nRegarding the farting, I don't think that's anything really.  It's unpleasant, but you don't have the right to a fart-free environment, you know?  Try keeping an air freshener at your workstation, or maybe you could have a fan there.
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Not if it happened outside the workplace and after working hours.  As far as I know, sexual harrassment only occurs when the person receiving the comment, approach, or inappropriate personal contact perceives it as insulting, demeaning, or threatening.  Many people bend the sexual harrassment rules in the workplace by hitting on or accepting remarks from their co-workers.  I think that policies against sexual harrassment exist only for the workplace environment (whichever this environment may be).  But I believe that a person can get in trouble with the cops if he or she is accused of bothering another person in a sexual way.
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Sexual harassment, gay bashing, male chauvinism, racism, sexism, intimitation and age discrimination.
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Harassment is often in the eye of the beholder, as it were.\n\nStaring at a woman in an elevator who enjoyed the attention would not be harassment, even if there was a policy against it.  Doing the same thing to a woman who felt uncomfortable about it could indeed be considered harrassment, depending on the circumstances.\n\nAny conduct toward another person that makes them uncomfortable or they believe is inappropriate can be construed at harassment, but it does take more than just someone saying they don't like something.\n\nWorkplace harrassment policies are generally more specific and cover a much greater amount of possible harassment situations.  In public, being able to prove sexual harassment in such a situation would likely be difficult.  On the job, it might be a completely different matter.  You might not be guilty of a crime, but you could definitely get yourself in hot water with your company.
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Part of the enjoyment of participating in this service is trying to decipher the sometimes incoherent questions.\n\nLet's see if I guess what you are asking.\n\nYou are an employee somewhere and you think someone else is harassing you.\n\nIf the harasser is your employer, and the harassment is based on one of the protected categories [age, gender, ethnicity, religion, color, disability, race] then you might have some protection.\n\n"Get back to work!" is usually not actionable harassment.\n"Get back to work, you stupid old Lutheran men!" probably is actionable.\n\nIf the harasser is a fellow employee and your employer does not protect you from it, you might have an action against the employer and the harasser.\n\nIf the harasser is a customer, you are not required to tolerate that behavior and can force your employer to remove the harasser.\n\nRather than threaten to contact your attorney, quietly contact the lawyer and discuss the situation. Your lawyer is in a much better position to advise you whether or not you have a cause of action. And, making threats usually just makes you look pathetic.\n\nIn my expereince, about 2% of the cases were worth pursuing - the rest were just situations where the employee had to "suck it up" or find another job.\n\nGood luck to you
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that depends entirely on the setting (are you at work and a collegue said something off-color?), the person (you can't respond the same way to your boss as you can to a peer), and exactly what was said/done (i.e. was it a minor slip or something that you possibly took the wrong way, or was it a major, totally out-of-line thing)???\n\ndepending on the level, who/what was involved, etc, anything from turning the other cheek & ignoring the person (while calling them some choice words in your inner monologue!) to a swift kick in the nuts might be in order. typically I abhore sue-happy people, but if it's a case of a superior at work sexually harrassing you or making unwanted racial or sexual comments, etc, then legal recourse may be a possible route...
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there are women in my workplace who have ascended to managerial positions, starting out as secretaries/assistants, with only  a hs degree or an associates. men don't have that luck.\nAnd besides, any word or stare can be considered harassment, making women untouchable in an office.
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She might have broken a law in saying something about your personal life on the job. Spend your week-end researching the laws in your state. I know that Federal law prohibits your boss from discriminating against a behavior or social "disorder". It sounds to me like she might be the one that needs to go! I think that you should go to the woman on your own and discuss w/her your feelings on the situation. It might help to carry a recorder in case she tries to threaten your job or something. Good luck!
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Yes under sexual harassment.  Contact the US Department of Labor and file a complaint.  They then can act on it or allow you to hire a lawyer and have the lawyer act on it.  Under the law they must be given the chance to act before you can goto court.
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Look up 'hostile work environment', get a lawyer.
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I hope this helps: Just what is sexual harassment? The book Coping With Sexual Harassment and Gender Bias, by Dr. Victoria Shaw, defines it as “bothering someone in a sexual way . . . It can be physical (such as touching someone in a sexual way), verbal (such as making unwelcome comments about someone’s appearance), or nonverbal.” Sometimes the harassment involves crude propositions.\n\nThe Bible condemns “obscene jesting.” (Ephesians 5:3, 4) Therefore, you have a right to feel angry, upset, confused, and even demeaned when you are harassed!\n\nHow, then, should you react if someone bothers you in this way? Sometimes a weak or vague response only makes a harasser try harder. The Bible tells us that when Joseph was propositioned by his employer’s wife, he did not simply ignore her. Instead, he firmly rejected her immoral advances. (Genesis 39:8, 9, 12) Today, being firm and direct is still the best way to fend off harassment.\n\nSimply saying something like, ‘I don’t like that kind of talk’ or, may get your point across. However you word it, do not water down your message. Let your no mean no! If [He] does not catch on to your kind hints, you have to tell [him] straight out. It often comes to that.  A firm ‘CUT IT OUT!’ may do the job.\nIf the situation escalates, do not try to handle things alone. Try talking it over with your parents or other MATURE adults. They may have some practical suggestions for dealing with the situation. As a last resort, they may even feel it necessary to alert school officials. As uncomfortable as doing so might make you, it could protect you from further victimization.
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That is DEFINATELY sexual harassment.\n\nIf the situation made you that uncomfortable, and if you feel like in the future he will repeat it, then go directly to your boss. If you don't want to get him in trouble, and feel like you won't be threatened in the future, then talk to him, and tell him that you will NOT accept his behavior, and ask him to please stop making those sexually harassing comments, gestures, whatever.
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If you're not "Flaming", it's not only unfair, it's possibly illegal.\nYour boss has a right to demand that you behave in a professional manner but does not have the right to censor your personal life or ask you to lie.\nSpeak with a lawyer before you act on my belief that it's unlawful discrimination or sexual harrassment, because the law may be different in your jurisdiction.
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No it isn't sexual harassment. But it does sound like you are on the fast-track to that promotion that you've been wanting.
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Sexual harrassment in the making.\n\n\nTell the dude thats hitting on you to bug off and warn him of your intentions. If he fails to heed your warning then you need to advise your supervisor, manager, head honcho of the situation or Human Resources. If the management or HR fails to correct the situation and the harrassment continues, then they can be held liable and litigation can result.
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Report this to your immediate supervisor verbally and in writing. Use words like "profanity", "hostile workplace", "sexual harassment", "neglect", and "elder abuse".\n\nAsk the patient's family to advocate on her behalf regarding a set bedtime and to not have those employees in her wing.\n\nRequest that the guy has his shift and wing changed so that you do not have to work with him.\n\nGood Luck! This seems like a pretty bad situation for everyone involved. I hope everything works out.
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It should be, but nothing is ever fair...especially at work.  Just remain completely professional with her and don't let her distract you. You maybe could submit an anonymous complaint to HR also.  You didn't mention the size of your company, but I can't see any organization tolerating that type of behavior from their management!!