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- From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
- Subject: Re: getting fired after making sexual harrassment complaint - illegal?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.132522.30483@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:25:22 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov11.075320.27151@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov11.141623.27000@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> <1992Nov17.011548.18275@ads.com>
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- >>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.
-
- Alice Sanders writes:
- >>
- >>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.
- >
-
- Charleen writes:
- >I'm by no means one of ljf's biggest fans, but you're being grossly unfair.
- >
-
- No, all I said was I had a right to ask what others think, so it matters
- to ME, even if it doesn't matter to Ms. Farthing. Nothing unfair about
- that. Besides, she and I have communicated by e-mail, and I don't believe
- any misunderstanding continues.
-
- >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,
- >
-
- That isn't what I was doing.
-
- >In a sexual harassment case, the only advice you--oops, "your friend"--should
- >take is from your--oops, "her"--lawyer.
- >
-
- REALLY silly.
-
- >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.
- >
-
- Illogical.
-
- >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.
- >
-
- This is perhaps the real point you are trying to make. I really don't
- know for sure, but you certainly seem to have some axe to grind.
-
- >Charleen
- A far fig newton.
-
-
- I know when I am being baited by someone with an agenda of her own. So I won't be
- responding to any more of these messages intended to get me into an
- argument. This is just pointless and gets completely off the subject.
- I don't understand this kind of use of the network. Sometimes there can
- be real misunderstandings. But this is just absolutely pointless and a
- waste of energy.
-
- Alice
-
-