Does this sound like a hostile workplace?
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I have been employed with my company for ten years, and dealt with difficult customers and co-workers, however since October 2008 a new worker has gradually made a job I once loved doing become one I loathe. This co-worker has made comments that suggest people in the office have slept together just because she herself had screwed up this day, it was reported to HR as a sexual harassment situation – nothing was done ( I know because I would have to deliver the warning/write up). An employee has reported this person for threatening him, and now violence has been shown full force after a large piece of office equipment was hurled across the room by this person. Which was reported to HR along with several other smaller things and nothing has been done I feel afraid for my well being and those around me, and everyone I try to vent to says this is a hostile workplace, and that I should open a lawsuit. I don’t want money, if I opened a case I don’t even know what I would ask for. Does this sound to anyone else like a case?
Please be honest but not cruel, I don’t want to screw this company, I have been a loyal employee for a very long time. I just don’t see why anyone should be able to put several other co-workers in danger and completely ruin the moral throughout the entire floor.
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You don’t need to ask for anything. You don’t file a claim with the EEOC and say “I want $x amount of money”. You just OBJECTIVELY file the claim. Download my free report for more help.
@Emrie, it does not have to be done to you, only that it was done. If the person it was happening to was too afraid to file a claim, you can file a claim simply because this crap is going on.
Here’s another good example of not being an active participant. Say Sally is sleeping with the boss and getting perks because of it. You are not getting the same perks that she is because you’re not sleeping with the boss. (Doesn’t matter if your male or female or male on male or female on female.) You can file a sexual harassment claim.
Well I may be wrong but I don’t think you can file a case since nothing has really been done to you. Is the only boss the one that works HR, if you can even call them a boss, or even a figure in charge. If you are the one that presents write-ups then you have to be a person with some form of pull since corporate punishment isn’t just handed out to whoever. Find some one that can actually do something and report it to them, if HR isn’t willing to get involved then go above them, follow the chain of command. Good Luck, keep your head down.
I would file a lawsuit against the company for failure to provide safe work environments or some shit like that. They refuse to do anything…thats wrong
I recommend you see the information at the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) on harassment and sexual harassment. You seem eligible to file a claim against the company for failure to take action. The information on how to file a claim is http://www.eeoc.gov/charge/overview_charge_filing.html
Information about harassment and the level of abuse constituting hostile work environment is here: http://www.eeoc.gov/types/harassment.html
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http://www.eeoc.gov/types/sexual_harassment.html
I suggest you read up on the definitions, see how they match up to your circumstances, and make a decison about filing a claim. As well, it is not just up to you here – you can make the recommendation to other employees to file who feel the workplace is hostile as well.