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- From: charleen@ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
- Subject: Re: getting fired after making sexual harrassment complaint - illegal?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.011548.18275@ads.com>
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- Organization: The Original Estrogen-Crazed Lust Bunnies
- References: <1992Nov10.021933.14811@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> <1992Nov11.075320.27151@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov11.141623.27000@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:15:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.141623.27000@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.075320.27151@leland.Stanford.EDU> farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf) writes:
- >>
- >>At the risk of sounding as if I'm giving you the brushoff, it really
- >>doesn't matter what "others" on the net might think. What matters is
- >>what a competent lawyer (hopefully whose specialty is employees'
- >>rights and/or sexual harassment cases) thinks. This woman you're
- >>talking about needs to consult a lawyer, not listen to our ramblings
- >>on here. Please encourage her to do so.
- >
- >ExcuseME! I have a right to ask for insights and information on a
- >subject. Of course, she is seeing a lawyer. But at the time I posted
- >this, she had just been fired and was really raw meat, looking for how to
- >proceed. You are reading it several days later.
-
- I'm by no means one of ljf's biggest fans, but you're being grossly unfair.
-
- She gave you excellent advice. Far too often, people come on the net and
- ask for opinions and treat those opinions as if they are authoritative,
- when oftener than not they are poorly thought-out and just plain WRONG.
- In a sexual harassment case, the only advice you--oops, "your friend"--should
- take is from your--oops, "her"--lawyer.
-
- The fact that you reacted in such a hostile manner to ljf's suggestion
- suggests to me that you--oops, "your friend"--don't believe that the
- harassment case is as strong and clear-cut as you state, and that your
- posting was simply a bid for sympathy.
-
- Ironically, here's where the difference in male/female communication styles
- comes in: women tend to offer sympathy when a problem is broached, men
- tend to offer solutions. Yet the one person who I thought was a woman offered
- a solution, and at least two men offered sympathy. Strange.
-
- Charleen
-
- --
- Q: What do you call a fig newton made on the other side
- of the world?
-
- A: A far fig newton.
-