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At one job at a large company, several women were sitting at a nearby table during lunch discussing how much they love tall men and talking about how too many o
by scarmig 5y ago
At one job at a large company, several women were sitting at a nearby table during lunch discussing how much they love tall men and talking about how too many of the men in San Francisco were too short to be dateable. So I reported this to HR through the proper channels, not to get them into trouble but just in the hopes that someone would let them know that wasn't appropriate workplace conversation.
Net result: HR lady laughed about it, let them know I had personally made the complaint, leading to teasing and mockery and no disciplinary action.
Now, imagine if you had a group of men talking about how much they loved big boobs in the workplace and ranking the women in the company on the perkiness of their tits...
- ducttapecrown 5y agoHR protects the company from discrimination lawsuits, not the employees from discrimination. Talk to a lawyer.
- scarmig 5y agoI usually agree, but the way HR responded here actually implicated the company more in the sexual harassment, not less. A self-interested company would have proceeded according to established procedure, not participated in it itself. Not that that would be worth making a federal court case out of things anyway. I just wanted to be able to sit down and do good work for a generally tolerable company without distraction.
- pawelmurias 5y agoStop being a pocket sized snitch.
- lobocinza 5y agoI think he overreacted but what if it was two men talking about how SF women are too skinny?
- scarmig 5y agoIt's the double standard that gets me. Either people don't objectify members of the opposite sex at the workplace, or they do. A quote that applies here: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. We need to strive for liberal egalitarianism, not the reactionary identity group politics that typify politics on both sides in the US nowadays.