Remove your arm or I will rip it off and beat you to death with it...

[Mike Taylor]

It depends on where you work. At a previous job, we managed to get one of the mall security guys terminated because he was ogling the teenage girls on staff. Both they and my current employer have very clear cut rules which protect the employee from their superiors, coworkers, AND the customers.

[Peppergirl]

Both they and my current employer have very clear cut rules which protect the employee from their superiors, coworkers, AND the customers.

My faith has been somewhat restored. Thanks!

[Slytovhand]

Quoth Jester

YOU: "And I love to see a man doubled over in pain clutching his balls." Said with a meaningful death stare.

Absolutely FANTASTIC rebuttal!! And I can imagine Fireheart being able to use it as well!



Lawsmeister - one cookie bag coming up!! (sheez... does that date us??)

[Anakah]

Sexual harrassment much? If somebody says something like that (Yes, I do believe it was intended for a BJ reference) and you have the feeling of needing a shower or feeling uncomfortable tell them to stop or you will report them for sexual harrassent.

We've had several classes on this stuff because it is serious except over here they are idiots and HR tells the goddamn offender who they offended!!! But yeah, that's NOT okay. Or just tell a manager how it made you feel.

[Jester]

it just seems like there's no protection of employees when the harasser is a customer.

But sometimes there is.

For example, my eldest niece, Princess, turned 18 in December. In Florida, that makes it legal for her to serve alcohol. So she went out and got a cocktail waitress position at one of the rockingest bars in KW.

And she often has guys touching her in ways that are inappropriate.

On numerous occasions, she has threatened to rip their hands completely off their arms. (She is MY niece, after all!) And yes, she does have management's complete backing on this. That, and if anyone tried to do anything to her, she is the darling of the bouncer staff. THEY would tear guys apart if she asked them to.

So it really depends on where you work, or more to the point, who you work with. Princess happens to work at a job that has cool management (as far as this topic goes), and considering the hazards of her job, that is a good thing. I am far more comfortable than I should be about her cocktailing, actually, just because of the stories she tells me. For being a short, cute, innocent little thang, she really can handle herself just fine. (There is no smiley for an uncle beaming with pride, is there?)

[Andara Bledin]

Ugh, what a douchebag.

The first thing I thought of when presented with the OP?
"I like to see jerks face-down in the mud, myself." give the guy a meaningful glance "I'd guess you're disappointed a lot more often than I am."

^-.-^

[WhiteRose]

another reply: "The only reason i'd be on my knees for YOU is because i'm laughing so hard i can't breathe..."

[tropicsgoddess]

So I go to clean and the guy who was waiting to be served by a coworker says...

"I love to see a woman on her knees."



So I stood up and ignored him. He continued to bait me going "are you deaf? Oh, you must be deaf." What the heck were you expecting me to do, laugh?!
I just plonked his spray down and left.

I gave the service desk a quick headsup so that if he stated that I was rude, this was why etc. I then related the story to the MOD for that day, who admitted that it was rather offensive and that ignoring him was the way to go.

Tell you what though, the urge to whack him over the head with a frozen salmon was VERY tempting.

I wouldn't have thought twice about dishing this out to that dirtbag. You did the right thing and I don't see how guys like him think that those kind of jokes are funny. I'd like to see how funny it would be to him if he got smacked in the face or kicked in the nuts for that sort of talk.

[thegiraffe]

Tossing it off as no big deal only serves to compound the problem. Deal with it the first time and you won't have to the next.

I have to say that I agree with this. When I was a teenager, I cashiered at a grocery store. This gross old guy kept coming through my line saying things like "I always like to look at a pretty girl" and "I may be old, but I'm not dead!". I was ignoring him and went completely silent for the first few times, but then I went to my manager, and she told me that I could tell him to "f-off" in the nicest way possible next time he did that.

Next time he came through my line and tried his dumb old lines, I called her over and laid into him. She backed me the entire way and even laid into him a little herself (she was only a couple years older than I was).

From that day forward, he never looked at me or went through my line again - I think he was afraid of what I would do to him...And the bagger I had when I ripped into him even said that I was much nicer than he thought I should have been.

Sometimes, speaking up for yourself really does make the work situation much easier. I developed a reputation for not taking any sort of crap, and it stuck with me the entire time I was at the store.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

This gross old guy kept coming through my line saying things like [SNIP] "I may be old, but I'm not dead!".

"Your wife begs to differ."

[bloodrose]

Wow, what a douchebag. Did he think you were going to laugh at some sexist joke?

I have an uncle who says sexist shit just to piss people off, just to get a rise out of them. I don't understand why he enjoys it. If people get mad at me, I'm miserable. But there are people who like that stuff.

[the lawsmeister]

Lawsmeister - one cookie bag coming up!! (sheez... does that date us??)

Yay - can I have Anzac biscuits?

Yeah it probably does date us a bit. can I at least argue that I was very young when I watched it?

[42_42_42]

Cookies for the reference!

"I love to see a woman on her knees."

"And I love to see a man on his."

[Jester]

"I may be old, but I'm not dead!"

There is a variation on that that I have heard many times: "I'm married, not dead!" Usually said by slimeballs looking to score some side action.

That being said, I heard a hilarious twist on that one once. A few years ago, while we were working the local haunted fort, a few of us went from the fort to the downtown area to drum up some business and promote the haunted fort. One guy who went had a great costume with a skull mask and stilts.....hard to explain here, but he looked great, and the stilts just made the costume that much more effective. It being Key West, many of the people we ran into had been drinking, and some tipsy girls started flirting with him. And so, when they asked about his status, he fired of this gem: "I'm dead, not married!"

Okay, back to the topic at hand!