[LMB] OT: stalkers

[Azalais Aranxta]

I hate it when people top-post....

> From: Greg Hennessy <greg.hennessy at cox.net>
>
> Can you provide a cite for anyone being found guilty of this, or was
> this a case of lots of people being worried that they'd be found guilty
> of something they didn't think they were guilty of?
>
> I remember a case in the first year of my current job (so it would have
> been 1992) where an appeals court ruled that I woman didn't have to have
> suffered a nervous breakdown in order to sue for harassment. The case
> involved a supervisor putting the women's paychecks down his pants, and
> making them pull the envelope out if they wanted their paycheck. His
> lawyer argued that if sexual harassment was so bad, the women would have
> had a nervous breakdown, and since they didn't, "obviously" there was no
> harassment. The judge agreed, and it was overturned.
>
> The conversation at work the next day in a department of 23 men, 1 woman
> was the men grousing about how every little move now left them at risk
> of being sued. I thought they were idiots.

On Thu, 24 May 2007 onyxhawke at onyxhawke.com wrote:

> I know people who were fired for one incident haresament,
> usually a "you're hot wanna catch a movie?"