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Just yesterday a woman was tearing up at work telling me how a coworker swore and screamed at her years ago and nothing was done. The woman is still in our group and the victim has to see her every day. At a previous job I was sworn at, screamed at, and had papers grown at me also with nothing done to the perpetrator and I will never forget that, and these are nowhere near as bad violations as sexual assault.
they aren't even illegal. All this behavior is legal, there is no case here. My last job was one where I felt I was completely regressed into childhood (an abusive childhood natch) by the behavior of people (well really mostly one person), but I knew they held all the power in the organization compared to me and I had none. I knew 100% how the power dynamics would play out. So now I'm unemployed, but life goes on, what can you do, look for work, do whatever else seems productive as well. Somedays I feel so weak and hardly able to deal with what the adult world is at all, but noone can surrender to that feeling for long. There is no legal case as it was mere verbal bullying which isn't illegal. Try to claim workers comp for emotional injury, oh yea do that and have a hard time working again, you don't want to do that.
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There are degrees but they are all unacceptable behaviors that should have zero tolerance. How can you claim that "grabbiness" hasn't scarred someone? Who made you the judge and jury of the victim's experience, that you can say it's "normal experience"?
I said it probably didn't scar someone any more than normal life experiences. Say one is laid off in a mass lay off in say the great recession and is unemployed a long time. THAT experience probably scars people at a FAR deeper level than a single grab, but we call it normal adult life experience and are extremely indifferent. So I was just saying let's be real and keep some context about all that adult life actually is. But it doesn't mean I'm not glad there are policies against grabbiness. Because not everything can be policy, but I think they have done a good job with sexual harassment laws (the enforcement part I woudln't know).