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Which gets to the definition of harassment, right? Were these guys in a private, joking conversation harassing or simply overheard by accident? Think fast ...
by theorique 14y ago
Which gets to the definition of harassment, right?
Were these guys in a private, joking conversation harassing or simply overheard by accident?
Think fast ... your job could depend on it.
- sp332 14y agoThey were in the middle of an auditorium, which is the opposite of private. Regardless of whether it constitutes harassment, the conference has a specific policy against it. Everyone involved said he was wrong and she was right, including they guy, who apologized in person and later in public on HN. She didn't ask for him to be fired.
- X-Istence 14y agoIf the guy, who apologized in person on HN, had said he wasn't wrong and that it was a joke between two friends he would have been lynched even harder than he was now.
- theorique 14y agoI guess it hinges also on the definition of "private". Is it always the offended party's prerogative to claim offense if, "in passing", they hear something that upsets them but which was (1) not intended for them to hear and (2) not directed at them? That appears to be the case here - the jokes were not directed at the (now-fired herself) Ms Reynolds.
- sigzero 14y ago"They were in the middle of an auditorium, which is the opposite of private." I do not agree with you at all. If I am at a conference with a friend and we are sitting in an auditorium and he and are I chatting about something between us, regardless of whether you can hear it or not, IS a private conversation. Private here does NOT mean nobody can hear you. It means there are very specific people involved in the conversation.