Ghost of a flea

Considering your daily patriarchal objectification of womyn, I don't think that you're in any position to talk about sexual harrassment.

You're just trying to silence me again! And I believe I have the floor until I pass the talking-gourd on to the next person.

H'm, what does happen if/when the sexual harassment co-ordinator starts sexually harassing people? It's like if the political officer starts selling secrets to the West... The whole system dies!

On the other hand, I've heard enough strange workplace stories that maybe videos like that are actually useful.

I can't process the ham-fisted acting and would feel insulted on that basis alone if this video were presented to me in the course of my work. That said, Ben, you are probably right to say this may still be useful. It is difficult to go wrong by underestimating people's behaviour in the workplace or otherwise.

Yes, that particular video has got to be a joke... right?

No Ben, it's literally open season on the outspoken at many workplaces nowadays. All that's required is a mere anonymous tip and the accused is pretty much guilty as charged. It is too much to ask to be faced either by your accuser or by _specific_ facts, because that might identify the poor, innocent, aggrieved party. We're well along to inventing whole new Star Chamber procedures, and because they're _private_, the Magna Flippin' Carta isn't a whole lot of help to an accused. (Don't ask me how I know this.)

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For the most part companies have been reasonable, but there's no question the policies can be enforced over-zealously.

Someone I worked with at IBM was forced out of the company on fairly specious grounds. A crude, sexually explicit note was found on a female colleague's desk one morning. The brass decided to grill one man in particular because he was the last to leave the building (according to security camera and badge logs). He was not specifically seen anywhere near the woman's desk, mind you -- he was just the last guy out of the building at night.

The guy didn't challenge it because the brass were leaning on him very heavily, and he didn't want it to filter out to his friends and colleagues that he was suspected of sexual harassment. As it was, the management kept a very tight lid on it, and did not disclose any but the blandest reasons for his departure. I didn't find out all the details until long after I'd left Big Blue.

And in contrast, I had difficulty with some bad behaviour by a boss I used to have. We belonged to the same union, however, and there was nothing I could prove so I just put up with it. The consequences for having addressed the issue directly were too tricky to face. Now, this was a fairly serious problem and one of the reasons I chose to leave that employer but ultimately I had that choice. Many people face far more difficult situations with no more recourse. This is the main reason I find the Star Chamber approach so totally inadequate and unfair both for those unfairly accused and for those seeking some appropriate redress. It is also why a farce like the video I link to is so profoundly offensive in trivializing something quite complicated. Assuming, that is, it is the genuine article. I still think it has to be a parody.