A person should not be fired for immaturity in the workplace. Not without a warning, anyway.
"some new girl who never said a word to the rest of us at work about having a problem, took it upon herself to go to the district & regional managers and file a pretty serious complaint..... we don't for one minute think that there is any truth to this." Those statements lead me to believe that it was not simply telling dirty jokes around a young lady; it was an accusation of real sexual harassment.
There are two issues here that I want to comment on. One is that I don't think a man is guilty of anything if he doesn't join in, simply because he's at work and he's a man. His gender shouldn't make him responsible for the actions of those around him. If simply being present makes you guilty, then the girls should also be guilty.
But that brings me to the other issue. The sexual harassment charges were not from bawdy jokes told in the workplace. There was something else that this man was accused of that had nothing to do with the atmosphere of the store. Something allegedly done in private away from everyone else.
The fact that the girl making the accusation is sitting around with a "smug satisfied look" on her face, leads me to believe that she has an agenda of revenge, and she's not someone suffering from a sexual trauma. No woman who is legitimately suffering from sexual harassment looks pleased during the process. It's a horrible and embarrassing ordeal.
I used to work with a lady who constantly talked about her husband's 'member' and what she did with it. I found it very distracting and I soon became weary of her 'talk'. I felt this was a form of harrassement and it was coming from another woman! Anyway that is one of my stories, I can't speak for the other above.
I understand what you're saying about that lady you worked with. That kind of talk can get very old very fast, if not offensive right off the bat. There are all sorts of things I *don't* want to know about my co-workers. Their sex life is one of them.
I've wrestled over the past years with inappropriate comments from a male co-worker of mine. I felt I needed to take the first step of telling him to stop...maybe a few times, before I would complain to a superior. And then I would expect the superior to warn the co-worker first before taking any severe disciplinary action. But then I guess appropriate actions taken depend on the offense.
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"some new girl who never said a word to the rest of us at work about having a problem, took it upon herself to go to the district & regional managers and file a pretty serious complaint.....
we don't for one minute think that there is any truth to this." Those statements lead me to believe that it was not simply telling dirty jokes around a young lady; it was an accusation of real sexual harassment.
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But that brings me to the other issue. The sexual harassment charges were not from bawdy jokes told in the workplace. There was something else that this man was accused of that had nothing to do with the atmosphere of the store. Something allegedly done in private away from everyone else.
The fact that the girl making the accusation is sitting around with a "smug satisfied look" on her face, leads me to believe that she has an agenda of revenge, and she's not someone suffering from a sexual trauma. No woman who is legitimately suffering from sexual harassment looks pleased during the process. It's a horrible and embarrassing ordeal.
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I used to work with a lady who constantly talked about her husband's 'member' and what she did with it. I found it very distracting and I soon became weary of her 'talk'. I felt this was a form of harrassement and it was coming from another woman! Anyway that is one of my stories, I can't speak for the other above.
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I've wrestled over the past years with inappropriate comments from a male co-worker of mine. I felt I needed to take the first step of telling him to stop...maybe a few times, before I would complain to a superior. And then I would expect the superior to warn the co-worker first before taking any severe disciplinary action. But then I guess appropriate actions taken depend on the offense.