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Originally Posted by CTinline-six
Get it out of your system now so you are ready for the workplace where looking at someone wrong can result in a harassment charge.
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I cannot second this statement enough. It's 1,000,000% accurate.
The little company I work for has gone so far to appease these sorts of people that we are now empowering and enabling them. it's ridiculous. One particularly troublesome young woman, who we have dubbed the "virtue signaler" is a freakin' lawsuit ready to happen. She's very attractive and knows it but she's also in a relationship with a woman, primarily socializes with gay men, and has serious issues with heterosexual men who she has called "repugnant" for their objectification of women on more than one occasion that I have personally overheard. Needless to say I steer clear of her. I don't look at her, I don't talk to her, unless she approaches me needing something. otherwise I keep my distance. Well apparently she complained to HR that she thought I was upset with her or didn't like her because I'm not friendly and open with her. WTF!? There's no winning with this one and there's a bazillion more of them just like her out there in offices across the country, just waiting to F you up. Anyway, I'm in a management position with my company and thus the stakes are high. HR knows all about this woman and just brushed off her concerns, though they thankfully alerted me. I told HR my concerns and that I refuse to be alone in my office or a conference room with her. Any time she sets up a meeting with me I forward the invite to her manager, who is a woman, and require her to join us. Gotta cover my backside.