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re: Harmless joke at Christmas party or distasteful?
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:06 am to Chuker
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:06 am to Chuker
Did he know her? I don’t make jokes like that to people I’m not comfortable with yet. If I make a questionable joke, I already know the woman is cool and would find it funny.
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Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:07 am to thegreatboudini
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I don’t speak to anyone anymore.
Smart man, I work with a lot of women and this is your best course of action.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:09 am to Chuker
You know, the bottom line for managers in the business world nowadays is to have a good relationship with the HR Director. I have been really fortunate to have had a great HR Director in the hospital arena. She would warn me, even tho, she knew she didn't need to, if I hired some lady that she felt was going to be "that way". Once, I hired a great looking girl and she told me "don't even look at her - she is one hundred percent trouble". The girl was friendly and professional but anytime it was one on one became flirty. I avoided her like the plague because the temptation was there. She left after a couple of months and eventually got her next boss fired (at another hospital). Bottom line - be friends with your HR, they can read people better than you.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:09 am to rowbear1922
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Basically just talking to a woman in the workplace can land you in HR these days.
Yes, but if you ignore them you are sexist and that can land you in HR these days.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:11 am to Chuker
I don’t see a joke, but he hardly said anything offensive. You have to be careful with what you say in the workplace, especially around women. Everyone wants to get their feelings hurt and be a victim. Don’t give them ammunition. Just keep to yourself.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:11 am to Longstreet
quote:Uhh, she made the rape reference?
Hmmm...rape jokes are never a good idea. Your cousin sounds like an idiot.
This post was edited on 12/5/18 at 9:12 am
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:12 am to Chuker
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Was that joke inappropriate for a company party in the day we are in?
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joke inappropriate
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in the day we are in?
I think you've answered yourself. If it's a joke, it's inappropriate.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:13 am to DeafJam73
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I don’t see a joke, but he hardly said anything offensive. You have to be careful with what you say in the workplace, especially around women. Everyone wants to get their feelings hurt and be a victim. Don’t give them ammunition. Just keep to yourself.
This.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:13 am to shel311
turn sarcasm detector on.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:19 am to Chuker
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Was that joke inappropriate for a company party in the day we are in?
We recently had a senior employee (been with us a long time, he's 65) get reprimanded for calling a new, young female employee "young lady". She said it was demeaning and made her feel inadequate.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:21 am to toosleaux
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We recently had a senior employee (been with us a long time, he's 65) get reprimanded for calling a new, young female employee "young lady". She said it was demeaning and made her feel inadequate.
These same women will bitch and moan when no one wants to interact with them
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:23 am to TOSOV
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If men avoid working or traveling with women alone, or stop mentoring women for fear of being accused of sexual harassment,” he said, “those men are going to back out of a sexual harassment complaint and right into a sex discrimination complaint.”
This is the sad reality of the situation. Damned if you do, dammed if you don’t.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:24 am to Chuker
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My cousin went to his company's christmas party last weekend and made a "joke" that got him scolded by HR. The situation was he was at the drink table and his female coworker came up and asked him if the punch was spiked. He said, yes and that punch over there (pointing to different bowl) has alcohol in it. She apparently took offense to that. Was that joke inappropriate for a company party in the day we are in?
You cousin should have taken offense before she had a chance to.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:24 am to toosleaux
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We recently had a senior employee (been with us a long time, he's 65) get reprimanded for calling a new, young female employee "young lady". She said it was demeaning and made her feel inadequate
I get it, but it is kind of demeaning. You are both professionals in the workplace, you wouldn't want everyone walking around calling you sport or buddy or son.
She shouldn't have made a huge deal about it, but if she just mentioned it to a supervisor or whatever I see no problem with it.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:27 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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you wouldn't want everyone walking around calling you sport or buddy or son.
Buddy is off limits now? For fricks sake.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:27 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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I get it, but it is kind of demeaning. You are both professionals in the workplace, you wouldn't want everyone walking around calling you sport or buddy or son.
She shouldn't have made a huge deal about it, but if she just mentioned it to a supervisor or whatever I see no problem with it.
I agree with Mingo.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:27 am to Chuker
His mistake was that he actually interacted with a female coworker. In the toxic environment today, created by the radical feminists and “#metoo”, the only safe thing a man can do is totally avoid any and all interactions with females.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:28 am to Longstreet
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Hmmm...rape jokes are never a good idea. Your cousin sounds like an idiot.
Did I miss where "spiking punch" went from "booze in punch" to some sort of rape insinuation?
As if spiking the punch wasn't a thing/joke since 1930?
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:28 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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I get it, but it is kind of demeaning. You are both professionals in the workplace, you wouldn't want everyone walking around calling you sport or buddy or son.
I find it hilarious that the "understanding" street is always one way. He's supposed to understand where she's coming from, but she doesn't have to understand that he was just trying to be polite and that's how his generation was taught to do so. Yet another whiny arse kid who ran to the teacher rather than just address the situation themself.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 9:28 am to beerJeep
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Buddy is off limits now? For fricks sake.
If it actually is your buddy, then fine, but in a professional environment, if you called someone that you didn't know that well this name, it's kind of stupid. You do you, however.
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