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XPav
12-11-2003, 02:09 PM
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000D9ZS0.01-A2VRS7MJ55H1GA._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Squirrel Killer
12-11-2003, 02:26 PM
I don't know where you all work, but for me nipples=NSFW, even slightly veiled ones that are oh so temptingly poking out through the gauzy mesh that barely covers their owner's sweat, inviting midriff...
Kalle
12-11-2003, 04:48 PM
Bah, what's the difference between this and a pic of a girl in a bikini?
Mike Cathcart
12-11-2003, 06:24 PM
I voted yes, and I work with Spoofy. I think we're done here.
Supertanker
12-11-2003, 07:06 PM
A pic of a girl in a bikini is also inappropriate. I'm assigning all of you that voted "Yes" to another six hours of anti-harassment training.
quatoria
12-11-2003, 07:08 PM
A pic of a girl in a bikini is also inappropriate. I'm assigning all of you that voted "Yes" to another six hours of anti-harassment training.

Looking at pictures of clothed women is harassment?
Supertanker
12-11-2003, 07:14 PM
You're contributing to a hostile work environment. If you want to pretend that picture isn't intended to appeal to a prurient interest, go ahead, but I've seen plenty of admin law judges and juries that will disagree. You don't get to select your plaintiff or whom you might offend, so is it worth the potential career damage to have a pin-up picture at work?
quatoria
12-11-2003, 07:17 PM
Since I work from home, I'm going to have to say: yes.
Squirrel Killer
12-11-2003, 08:37 PM
Bah, what's the difference between this and a pic of a girl in a bikini?

Nothing, if you're talking about a Wicked Weasel bikini. But most normal bikini's don't let nipple shine on through. Or poke through.
Jakub
12-11-2003, 08:58 PM
You're contributing to a hostile work environment. If you want to pretend that picture isn't intended to appeal to a prurient interest, go ahead, but I've seen plenty of admin law judges and juries that will disagree. You don't get to select your plaintiff or whom you might offend, so is it worth the potential career damage to have a pin-up picture at work?
What a perfectly retarded world we live in.
Derek Meister
12-11-2003, 09:22 PM
Aren't the terms "hostile" and "work environment", when used together, redundant?

Or is that just the words of a bitter man? ;)
SpoofyChop
12-12-2003, 06:42 AM
I just voted and now I have to go clear my cache.
SpoofyChop
12-12-2003, 07:09 AM
Dammit! I wanted to look at the innapropriateness again and now I have to go clear my cache again!

XPAV!

:evil:
graller
12-12-2003, 07:17 AM
Supertanker I can understand your senior management angst. But please this is nothing worse then the average Cosmo cover that the majority of your female co-workers carry into the office with them every day.
Supertanker
12-12-2003, 08:41 AM
I understand that, but these things are like insisting on the right-of-way when you are a pedestrian versus a car. You might be right, but you're dead, too. You might eventually prevail against a harassment complaint, but not until after lots of grief & taint to your reputation. If you've got a job or a career you like, you need to think defensively about it.

I once worked in an office that had lots of off-color joke telling and sexually-oriented talk. I just never participated, and would often leave the room if it started to get out of hand. When they inevitably were sued, there were only two of us that were not named in the complaint. I didn't have to talk to investigators for long, I didn't have to be deposed, and I didn't have to hire a lawyer. That more than offset anything I might have given up.
Alan Au
12-12-2003, 09:03 AM
Supertanker I can understand your senior management angst. But please this is nothing worse then the average Cosmo cover that the majority of your female co-workers carry into the office with them every day.
Maybe, but if a male co-worker pins up the cover image from Cosmo, it's harassment. Double standard strikes again!

- Alan
graller
12-12-2003, 10:09 AM
Both Alan and Supertanker are right - btw I would look at that pix at work and not sweat it but never pin it up in a public area. I am in management myself and I understand the craziness surrounding harrassment these days. No jokes, no porn, no bathroom talk at our office for me. But my mentality is much like Alan's on a personal level...there is a double standard at work here and the fact you have to be paranoid to defend yourself from it bothers me.