Third Party Sexual Harassment
Q: As long as there is no complaint, are there not going to be
some third-person harassment vigilante lurking about,
ready to inform.
A: Exactly that has happened. A woman received a telephone call informing her that her mother had just died in an auto accident. Her boss, a man, happened to be standing in the doorway of her cubical. He attempted to comfort her, and his behavior was interpreted as a sexual hug by ... well, let's call the person who reported this to the HR department a "third-party harassment vigilante". The guy did not get fired over this, but he did get one of those career-killing "letters" documenting the "incident" in his personnel file. Note that the woman whose mother had died... the one who was hugged... had no complaint about it and thought all of this was just nuts. So don't say there aren't third-party harassment vigilantes out there, because there are. And there are feminist HR weenies who will "document incidents" that aren't even incidents.