Sex sells.
My most popular posts at The Employer Handbook -- that's based on you reading them (you're all sick I tells ya, sick!!! And remember, I'm logging IP addresses) -- generally involve some element of sexual behavior. You have the Brazilian self-stimulator. Actually, make that sexual behaviour -- there's the Australian hotel sex romp.
One of my readers asked if I'd heard about the recent sexual harassment lawsuit in Utah (the home of sex in a supply closet), in which a woman alleged, among other things, that her supervisor distributed a work schedule that included included "Mini-skirt Monday," "Tube-top Tuesday," "Wet T-shirt Wednesday," "No bra Thursday," and "Bikini top Friday." Come on, now. You know me! Just this week, I read five articles (here, here, here, here, here) about it. You can find 23 more articles about "No bra Thursday" here.
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Then there's the NY Post story (naturally) about a 23-year-old lesbian who claims that seven staff members in her real estate office groped, slapped, flashed, fondled and subjected her to racial abuse and death threats. One of the staffers allegedly offered her $60 for oral sex and told her all Puerto Rican girls are good at it.
Me? I like writing about these cases because it's a good excuse to use stock sexual harassment photos from Google Images -- like the one on the right, which, given the size of the shoulder pads in the lady's jacket and the dimensions of that desktop computer -- no doubt housing a 5.25 inch floppy disk drive -- is a screencap from L.A. Law.
How about one more sexual harassment case for ya? This time, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals gets in on the act and reverses summary judgment in favor of an employer where the plaintiff alleged sexual harassment and retaliation when her boss forcibly kissed her, fondled her leg, propositioned her, asked her sexually explicit questions, described sexual activities he wished to perform, and then, after she spurned the advances and filed a harassment complaint, fired her (on the day she complained).
More on this and, of course, lessons for employers, after the jump...
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A recent survey by Workplace Options, shows that most Generation-Y employees believe that an office romance will have a positive influence on performance and overall workplace morale.
And, then, there are those that allegedly do. It is on those occasions that this blog can practically write itself.
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