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On the job - harassment - would this qualify?

Discussion in 'General Support and Advice' started by Tightrope, Jan 15, 2014.

  1. Tightrope

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    Are comments such as being told that one is "metro" after overhearing a phone conversation which required being polished and articulate, "I can't believe you're not married at your age," and other things along those lines considered harassment in the workplace?
     
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    If it continues then yes, but I don't think that's to bad I've heard worse at my job any I usually brush it off. If it's the same person who repeatable does it then that is qualified as harassment.
     
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    If it is clearly ill-intended, then yes. If not, then a simple hey-not-cool is appropriate, I think. If that does nothing, then it is harassment. Or I could be talking out of my ass.
     
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    Thanks. It was meant as a put-down. It was the same cluster of a few people who sat and hung out together. There was more. So it was harassment, then.
     
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    Yes it's harassment
     
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    In Canada that would not be harassment.

    Telling someone they should be married has social reasons, not sexual.

    Unless they are aggressively asking you and not leaving you alone, then that could be plain harassment.

    But honestly, that is no harassment, at least up here

    *** read a lot of Ontario's labour code.