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To ask if this happened at your work....

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Ifimight · 26/05/2021 21:00

If someone made a sexist/rape joke in a meeting mainly involving junior staff but also with senior managers in it, what do you think would happen at your work place? Would anyone complain? Would anyone call them out as it being inappropriate in the meeting itself?

Just curious. This comes on the back of years of inappropriate behaviour and harassment, I'm wondering how other work places would/should deal with it.

OP posts:
BashfulClam · 27/05/2021 13:41

Excuse my typos!

Ifimight · 27/05/2021 21:04

If id spoken up in that meeting when he made the rape joke i think would have been made to feel like i was overreacting by the rest of the team.

I've got to decide by tomorrow what to do about it.

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LittleAurora · 27/05/2021 23:38

In my workplace it the boss making these jokes regularly and without shame as well as staff members

HeronLanyon · 28/05/2021 00:11

They would be reported and disbarred.

HeronLanyon · 28/05/2021 00:12

Good luck op. Awful.

KingdomScrolls · 28/05/2021 00:18

It definitely would've been challenged (it's what we all did as practioners and train our staff to do) and the person would've likely been fired, something low level sexist probably just a disciplinary/formal warning but taken very seriously and would affect reputation chances of promotion etc, a rape joke if such a thing can exist, would be gross misconduct and termination. I've seen people fired for less. I work in the criminal justice system.

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