I am in no way pleased that sexual harrassment is an immediate punishable offense with a need to prove anything. I was unaware that industry is treating it this way until my SO told me yesterday. At the USGS where I used to work it was handled differently, these things had to be proven. I even sent an email in a pending sexual harrassment case to state that I had never been treated improperly by the accused. It made me feel really awkward, on the one hand I was just telling the truth, on the other if he had indeed been treating the coworker the way she claimed then I was helping to exonerate him when he was guilty.
I think there should always be an investigation process.
I don't think that you or any of my other friends want to see women harrrassed. You are upset about the way that companies enforce their policies. This doesn't mean that sexual harrassment is bogus, or that women (and men) don't get victimized in the workplace.
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Date: 2002-11-29 05:38 am (UTC)I think there should always be an investigation process.
I don't think that you or any of my other friends want to see women harrrassed. You are upset about the way that companies enforce their policies. This doesn't mean that sexual harrassment is bogus, or that women (and men) don't get victimized in the workplace.