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It's one thing to ask about dinner plans after asking if it's alright to make personal conversation. It's another to go from recruiting a prospective employee s
by cestith 9y ago
It's one thing to ask about dinner plans after asking if it's alright to make personal conversation. It's another to go from recruiting a prospective employee straight to propositioning someone for casual sex and sending graphic images.
There's no way to misread the situation that badly. He just assumed it was okay to send a photo of his genitals to someone with whom he'd been having a supposedly professional interchange. That's not okay.
- microcolonel 9y agoWhat kind of not okay, though? Is it a faux pas or an offence? If it's a faux pas, the professional outcome is distrust and failure. If it's an offence, the outcome is legal penalties. I'm not defending the actions of this man. In terms of his moral, ethical, or social outcomes, I'm sure it's not a good action. That said, I have a hard time agreeing with the legal argument: that the use of LinkedIn turns your personal communications into business communications. This has potential for broad legal implications which have nothing to do with workplace harassment. The use of LinkedIn does not, in my view, turn your personal communications into workplace communications.
- cestith 9y agoI think the expectation is set that it's professional by being on LinkedIn. I think the bigger issue Doe's case addresses, though, is that he was using it to conduct business with her and shifted that contact to unwelcome sexual advances. It being on LinkedIn makes her argument that she expected it to be professional contact stronger I think, but is not in itself the issue. The issue with harassment is, as always, that it's unwelcome and inappropriate to the situation. LinkedIn is just part of the situation in this case.