re: Just got my arse chewed for saying "honey" to a co-worker

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Yours as well.

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Yes but mine would be backed up by any HR department.



You mean to tell me that if a woman complained to the corporate offices about being called honey and darling all the time out in the field that she would be told "ah sugar, it's just boys being boys in the South, nothing wrong with it honey"?

The right thing to do was apologize and just move on from it. Not a big deal in my view, but to some it may be. Hopefully nothing more comes from it.

There is most definitely a double standard, so just keep your head down and work through it. A couple of years back at my old firm I got a closed fist blindside by an intoxicated female co-worker who had a crush on me when she saw me talking some girl up at a non-work function. I didn't say a word, but she ended up telling the whole office about it. Lots of jokes at my expense: "Jort's clients sure are having a hard time with this recession, but he'll be OK. We all know he can take a hit." I just brushed it off, but want to guess what would have happened if I hit her, even if I intoxicated?