Lawyers: Seeking free advice: Stripper in workplace?
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Anonymous
| My bosses recently hired a stripper as a prank ("but it's a male stripper! It will be funny!") to dance for a male colleague. I"m still so pissed. Is there anything that can be done, or do I just have to be mad and deal with it? We are a small consulting firm (that's all the info I can provide out of sheer humiliation that this happened where I work), if that helps. |
Anonymous
| What makes you think you're entitled to free legal advice? |
Anonymous
| I only meant on this list - I don't even know if this is something that is worth consulting with a lawyer for. |
Anonymous
| I framed this wrong...anyone, what would you do, if your bosses hired a stripper to come to your workplace? |
Anonymous
| Um, I'm not a lawyer but that sure smells of sexual harassment to me. Who would think it is okay to do such a thing???? |
Anonymous
| I think if it bothered you, then you should say something-- in an email for example. Then if it happens again you have a paper trail. |
Anonymous
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Sexual harassment has to be pervasive and severe to be actionable. One activity that is in bad taste does not change the working conditions enough to constitute sexual harassment.
That having been said, I think you should speak up to "The Powers That Be" and let them know that you do not feel comfortable with the activity chosen and you do not feel it is professional, and you would like to be excused, with pay, to work at home during the time the stripper is in the office. Employment Lawyer. |
Anonymous
I think that if they've already crossed the line into surprise male strippers during business hours, there may be superimposed on a pervasive work place culture that is inappropriate, to say the least. OP, why can't you just excuse yourself during this "performance"? |
Anonymous
| Wow, OP! You work with very ignorant managreement. I feel for you. |
Anonymous
| OP here. I actually did leave during this "event" but I'm more pissed that they thought it was okay. I work in a locker room. This might be the last straw for me. |
Anonymous
| So leave or say something-- I work with a small firm and enjoy the non PC ways |
Anonymous
| Not enough for hostile work environment claim if only happened once and nothing else had happened. |