By reporting these incidents to the proper authorities and agencies, making these illegal acts against us publicly known nationwide and worldwide, we can provide justice.

What types of conduct have been found to be ‘sexual harassment’?

Sexual harassment is far broader than a threat along the lines, "If you want to keep your job, you’ll have to go to bed with me." Courts and agencies have found the following types of conduct to be illegal sexual harassment:

If there is a coworker, supervisor, manager whom you work with who is behaving toward you in the above manner, you can get help to resolve the problem. Keep notes of dates, time, everything the person said to you that was offensive and sexual in nature - verbatim - write down exactly what was said. Make note of any obscene gestures, comments, pornographic pictures he has shown you at work. (I did not know what MILF even meant until he and his female lead friend called me over to show me porn on his computer at work). Any time he put his hands on you, write these down. First report it to your Human Resources Department. Most companies have policies regarding sexual harassment in your employee handbook. If there is any form of retaliation by coworkers after you report the sexual harassment to your Human Resources Department, document all of those incidents also. Names of everyone who participated in the retaliation, dates and times when the retaliation occurs. Retaliation denotes a hostile work environment. When assistant supervisors or leads as they are called in many call center environments, supervisors and managers participate in the retaliation this also especially puts the case in the area of violating federal rights and the company is responsible. When you see management personnel participate and behave very foolishly and unprofessionally, document details, names, dates, times of the harassment and retaliation to present to the judge in court. During the retaliation some of the middle aged employees even sunk so low as to make racial and religious slurs at work and outside of work. One tall bald man with a mustache was particularly nasty about this. They often commit blasphemy and taking the Lord's name in vain. Many professional people here in Vegas and friends across the nation who know of this entire situation have said to me, "these are pathetic people with empty lives who have nothing better to do in life." If this happens in your case, these incidents should also be documented as this is discrimination based on race and religious beliefs in addition to the sexual harassment and violate the constitution.

Also in my case, the coworker who was sexually harassing me was selling marijuana on company property during work hours (passing it right in the middle of our department!), violating company policy of providing a drugfree work environment. The woman who received the marijuana from him said it was for pain. If she needs it for pain then she should be getting medical marijuana legally through her doctor, not buying it off of some coworker illegaly. Much of the retaliation in my case was spurred on by people who popped out of the woodwork so to speak and joined in the harassment because they were afraid of having to pass any mandatory drug testing in the call center and would not be able to pass. In my case the human resources individuals at this particular call center location took no action at all on the violation of the corporate offices own drug free workplace policy. Several management persons participated in the freakish behavior, including the Furniture Department Manager and the E-Commerce Manager along with seven supervisors. The leads or group of young women who are gophers for the supervisors were running around saying "I love you J___" in high pitch falsetto voices. After I reported the harassment to Human Resources, three men from corporate in San Francisco met with the man who was harassing me and no one from corporate ever spoke to me. The supervisor and lead lied to me and said this meeting was about the furniture department. When the man came out of the meeting, the lead said "This doesn't look good" and ran over to him. I asked to meet in private with my supervisor throughout these proceedings and each time she blatantly lied to me claiming there were no problems and that she was unaware of anything going on. I heard her many times in conversation with other coworkers and these conversations indicated she definitely knew what was going on and was participating in the harassment. In my 30 year career I had never had a bad supervisor before. This women was the first in 30 years. The Human Resources representative who handled my situation said to me "You trusted the wrong person! (she was referring to the female lead)." When I signed resignation papers and was going to put sexual harassment by JW and TH as the reason for resignation, the Human Resources person told me to put "Personal" as the reason for resignation. Also situations discussed only with this Human Resources person were later blabbed all over the building so she did not keep anything confidential which should have been part of her assigned duties and responsibility considering the job position she held. If the Human Resources Department cannot or refuses to resolve the problem or control the situation in an appropriate manner, you can report the problem to your local Equal Rights Commission office for your state. They will listen, determine if you have a solid case and take a report. An investigator will be assigned to your case and legal information will be given to you along with information on all your rights to fair compensation. They will also advise you to obtain an attorney to help represent you and enforce your rights. The case files are also kept on record at the Federal EEOC in Los Angeles and reviewed by the EEOC.

Another tactic used in retaliation is defamation, the harassing coworkers may spread lies about your character at work to try to cover up anyone looking into their indiscretions. In my case they spread lies that I was poor and stole pens. I have always purchased office supplies in bulk at Office Depot and have no reason to take any one elses pens. The fact that I made twice as much money that year as most of their employees was another source of jealousy in some of the coworkers. They were constantly asking me for advice on how they could make money on the internet and Ebay and other ways. The lead was complaining that she didn't have money to buy new clothes, when many people said she had a $1.00 an hour raise. She wanted advice on starting up a monthly herb information site and help with her home computer. Our e-commerce supervisor yelled out loudly at one point, "J___, you made more money than me last year!". They kept trying to push this man on me, the same supervisor yelled at another time, "He's not as smart as you think he is!". I don't know why she said this as I had never said or even indicated that I thought he was smart. Much to the contrary actually, he seemed to always choose the easiest jobs with least amount of effort involved and he thought he was being slick about this. One time he even said "I always wanted to have my own mail order business!" I thought Dude, you are almost 40 years old, if you really wanted that you would of had one by now. When I didn't bother to apply for the company employee credit card as they did, my reason being that I already had credit cards with much lower interest rates and saw no need to have a department store credit card rate, they spread rumours that I had bad credit. This is the low class mentality of these people. The female lead even had them believing they have the power of the Care Bear stare. She told them to do this because once she told me at work that staring really bothered her, a coworker was just daydreaming and staring out the window when the phone calls were slow. (My daughter finds this hilarious.) If she told them all to jump off a bridge would they do it for her. You would think that people you work with for several years would have more common sense than this, but when drug use, jealousy and hatred cloud their judgement, and others fear of not going along with the group and peer pressure maybe costing them their jobs in some way, you will see all kinds of very foolish behavior. These people spread rumours in public places such as grocery stores, libraries, post offices (one supervisor who had only been in her supervisory position 3 months was spreading the rumours at the local post office, Federal Government employees are a witness to this), restaurants where they see you eating with your family, your new place of employment. I was threatened in the womens bathroom at the new job I had, the woman said to me "You know, half the people in this call center couldn't even pass a drug test." The new company I worked for at the time did not treat the matter lightly and did do something about this abusive coworker. Another supervisor who was behaving very foolishly and was sitting on young male coworkers laps and also at one point directly harassed me while she was intoxicated at work was eliminated. Call centers have a very high turn over rate in every state, and companies are just filling seats to answer phones and meet quotas, only the more reputable centers actually do background and drug testing to ensure a better quality of employee for handling sensitive and confidential information. This is why these places of employment are easily rumour mills. One doctor asked me "and these are the people handling our credit cards when we place an order?" It is even worse at the holiday season when they hire in hundreds of temporary workers and warn existing workers to guard their purses against theft by the temp workers.

To learn about ways to combat slander go to this website and click on Fighting Slander - The Guide. The attorney for the opposing party had the nerve to say this page is slander, my attorney said they don't know what they are talking about. They even made it hypocritical by hiring an asian attorney as if that was supposed to make things right again. An example of slander is employees telling others that you were fired from the company where the harassment occurred, when actually you left due to the harassment and failure of the company to handle the situation properly and legally (in EEOC terminology this is a "constructive discharge"). When I left the human resources person had to stand in the hallway, she said to protect me because of the negative energy that had been created in the building by these bad people which had heightened to a physical threat against me by a male worker. My case took two years for legal procedures with the EEOC, resulting in resolution in Federal Court and I did receive monetary compensation for the harassment. Most cases can take two to five years for resolution. My husband passed away at the same time this finally went to a hearing, otherwise, I would have pursued this further in court. A recommended book on this matter is The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment by Ellen Bravo and Ellen Cassedy. The book contains candid advice from 9to5, the National Association of Working Women. You can check your local bookstores or go to Amazon.com to purchase this book as I did. Some companies may seem to not care outwardly and will not admit to any wrongdoing which is just a poor reflection on their part, but I was assured by legal staff that most companies go in and "clean up" after these types of incident. If the company really cared or was a responsible company with good human relations the incident never would have happened in the first place. This company in particular has been sued before for similar incidents, it is public information on the internet. A university professor is writing a book on sexual harassment and she has this incidents information to include as part of her research.

Remember, these are all incidents at work in the workplace that the company is accountable for. Companies grow so large that they do not even know who works for them. People are numbers, management may fall into a pattern of only listening and relying on the employees who "toot their own horn" and kiss their ---, but these few do not represent all of the workers. By letting these few people run the departments for them, a company becomes in danger of losing thousands of dollars in legal fees because of bad employees who think they know more and can run the departments on their own without managerial review. These two employees even had the gall to state that they had created the entire E-Commerce department on their own from the beginning, when in fact the department was created by the qualified people at the corporate division in San Francisco. Poor judgement even on the lower supervisory levels can affect the companies costs when false information is relayed to upper management. Two people were allowed to manipulate and use 600 employees as puppets for their revenge on a coworker who only spoke the truth about one of their so called friends who wasn't doing her job properly, about one of them who sexually harassed her over a two year period and went crying to superiors when things didn't go his way. The one woman who is a lead - assistant to the supervisor, made derogatory comments about alot of people at work, even management. She even called one woman named Rebecca who is short in stature "The troll". She said one manager was "asking for it" when she stood on a chair in a skirt to show a repairman the problem with the led message display board. This lead who went around making negative comments about everyone was the one who tried to cover everything up for this man who was sexually harassing me and she contributed to the sexual harassment. When I turned the man down on sharing an apartment with him, she told me that I was a lesbian and should live with a gay person. If I am a lesbian or straight is nobody's business at work. And what kind of woman says another woman is "asking for it", that's the fallacy that men who are perpetrators use for trying to justify rape, she was in a short skirt and in their mind she was asking for it. Bull! This manager worked out at the gym and looked good in her skirts and boots. She was even on the news on television for helping contribute to a charity cause supported by a sort of marathon at the gym. When I was her age I wore skirts, nylons and heels or boots to work every day too in Florida.

I would never subject my family to being roomates or anything else with a coworker/drug dealer. A so called good Christian woman walked up to me in the grocery store and said "You are a bitch and ...", with her tiny black grandaughter sitting in the grocery cart, this woman opened her big mouth (children live what they learn). I didn't say anything to her, I just smiled. Honestly, I don't even know why all these people even think it's any of their business when they don't even know the any of the truth. They obviously don't understand or are too ignorant to contemplate the meaning of court ordered "cease and desist". What makes them think they have the right to speak to me like that or to harass me. If they knew the truth about any of it, they wouldn't be making such big fools of themselves in public when they open their mouths. The company condoned this behavior and didn't stop it so these people actually believe the company is backing them up in this issue and will protect them when they end up in the slammer for harassment. The EEOC even stated in writing that they didn't condone the manner in which the company handled the situation. The company is also in the Southern Nevada "Buyer Beware" list with the Better Business Bureau for inappropriate and complete lack of handling of customer situations. In all the years that I grew up, people don't behave like that. People were taught respect and manners. This woman doesn't even know me and I don't know her but she did not make a good first impression. So if I am a bitch for protecting my family and not wanting to live with a low life drug dealer and I have more respect for myself than any of these people obviously have for their selves and standing up for myself against sexual harassment makes me a bitch, then yes, I would choose to be a bitch. I have a brain and I use it appropriately and intelligently. I went to college, achieved my four year degree in 1983, studied alot of psychology and womens' studies courses, and I think for myself and I know what a woman doesn't have to put up with at her job. God gave you a brain too, use it! If because a woman turns a man down and doesn't want to live with him when she hears him say to a coworker, "I haven't had sex with her yet", and because she rejects him, then he turns around and tells other coworkers that "she's ice and she's a bitch!". Then she rejects him again when everyone else says "well how about J__?", and she confronts him a third time to your face after they told her you bought the fancy chocolate covered cake with red roses for her birthday and they gave her the book "The Perfect Man", and she told him "I don't hardly even know you", after these 3 rejections you try to get me fired because I don't want to have anything to do with you. I see right through you and you can't fool me like you have all the other older married women who think they are flattered when you flirt with them at work, you sick creep. I'm not physically attracted to skinny white men with bad breath and chipped teeth who always smell like motor oil. He said "Sex sells at Pottery Barn" and when a new training class was being escorted around the call center he said "Ummmm, fresh meat!". This is a very disgusting man. I used to be a nice quiet person, but if having to leave my job and becoming a real bitch is what it takes to get away from people like him, then that's what women have to do. There are a million jobs out there and a million other companies to work for. And this company certainly isn't listed in the Fortune 500 best companies to work for either. If you, the reader, are going through this, when your case goes to court, you will be validated and you will know that you have done the right thing in the eyes of the law also.

The company or employer is not responsible for compensating you for crimes committed against you outside of work. In my case the coworker broke into my home when I was away on vacation in California and stole many personal documents. A note was left on my car later stating that if I wanted the items returned to call a phone number. I didn't call the number and gave this note to the police. A week before the court date, three lug nuts were removed from my right front car tire. Fortunately, a taxi driver near the Las Vegas strip noticed the tire and brought it to my attention in the middle of rush hour traffic at a red light. Normally, I would have driven onto the freeway then, instead I drove to the closest Discount Tires store and the men working there told me it was no accident that the lug nuts were missing. They helped to repair my tire at no charge. Ten years ago another coworker broke in to a home I was sharing with roomates, stood hidden in my closet and watched me undress (this pervert belongs in jail). These are criminal acts that the police will handle. File police reports with your district police department. It is important that you document every incident. Later when your case goes to court you will have all the details to present to the judge. If people are still approaching you, call the police and file harassment charges. These people should not be contacting you, touching you or approaching you in any manner. They are just mad because they got caught. Just keep turning them over to the police one by one every time they break the law. It's easy, remember, they aren't very bright to begin with otherwise, they wouldn't have put the company they work for or you in this situation.

Your personal safety is also an important factor to consider when someone is sexually harassing you. Keep your purse, keys, identification with you at work very close by. Do not leave it in your desk or anyplace where a coworker has access to these items when you are in a meeting at work or at lunch or break. Spare keys in your purse can be removed and then put back on a different day, allowing the coworker time to make copies of your keys. Most workplaces are computer intensive now and email is a daily part of our lives on the job as well as at home. Never use the same passwords at work that you use at home. Coworkers with bad intentions can take your passwords and use them on your personal email accounts, gaining access to send emails in your name and even spread them around at work saying you wrote them. Change the locks on your doors at home, add security bars to windows. These items are relatively inexpensive and can be found at home improvement centers. The local police department also has free pamphlets with tips on keeping your home and surroundings secure. Tell your family and friends about the harassment and what is happening so they will be on the lookout for any strange activities going on around you. Neighbors and security personnel where you live can also be helpful. There were "peeping" incidents outside our windows at early morning hours in the dark and we reported these to security personnel who then kept closer watch on our building. Friends even saw the man run away from our home. Many of the websites below have safety tips that are well worth reviewing.

It is not corporate America's place to attempt to silence individuals who have been harassed by instituting legal jargon in contracts to cover up their dirty deeds. Sweeping ugliness under the rug is not the way to run a company, neither does it present any type of positive image of their company to the American public. Click here to read how Senator Henry Reid of Nevada is working with other state senators and congressmen to pass laws to defend our right to speak up and reveal the truth. "The explosion of new technology has done much to democratize our politics, encourage grassroots political involvement, and act as a tremendous catalyst for civic engagement across our country. With the emergence of blogs, the Internet truly puts the power in the hands of the people." Women's Rights are Civil Rights. Freedom of speech is a constitutional right for Americans. When we become a US citizen, these constitutional rights thus become our rights as individuals. A corporation or their legal department cannot take these rights away from women who have been harassed in their workplace. It is unconstitutional and un-American and also ILLEGAL.

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FACTS ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's page contains a simple and straightforward definition of sexual harassment.

BULLY ONLINE
Bully OnLine is a British site that contains useful information on sexual harassment, including definitions of harassment (based on gender, race, or sexual orientation), the profile of the typical harasser, and tips for harassment victims.

Read the personality traits of a sexual harasser or bully in the workplace - you will recognize these traits immediately in the person harassing you - an example is a 38 year old male adult with an immature sexual mentality. Identifying the psychopath or sociopath in our midst including the socialised psychopathic manager. Sexual harassers often have specific inadequacies (eg sexual, as an example, the male harasser who has an STD such as herpes and also has deep rooted psychological issues which took place in childhood with his mother causing him to be incapable of intimacy, sexually inadequate and abusive.)

Pair bullying is a serial bully with a colleague. Often one does the talking whilst the other watches and listens. Usually it's the quiet one you need to watch. Usually they are of opposite gender and frequently there's an affair going on. Of over 6000 cases of bullying reported to Bully OnLine and the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line, in at least half the cases, the bully is having an affair with another member of staff. The affair has little to do with friendship, and a lot to do with strategic alliance in pursuit of power, control, domination and subjugation. In a further quarter of cases, there's often a suspected affair, and in the remaining quarter, there is often a relationship with another member of staff based not so much on sexual attraction but on a mutual admiration for the way each other behaves.

If the bully is a female in a junior position, she finds a weak male in a senior position (this is usually not difficult) then gains patronage, protection and reward (eg promotion) by traditional methods. Once promotion is gained, the female calculates who can give her the next promotion; if the first male cannot, he is ditched and another adopted. The males are unlikely to admit this is happening or has happened. The female bullies personality inadequacies stem from jealousy and envy of other female coworkers.

Most serial bullies have unhappy and unsatisfactory private lives which are characterised by a string of broken relationships. If you are the current target of a serial bully or pair bullying and taking legal action, a little digging into the bully's past, including their personal life, will usually unearth some unsavoury facts that the bully would prefer not to be made public.

The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization.
RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice. Inside, you'll find statistics,counseling resources, prevention tips, news and more.

SAVI staff and volunteers generate a dynamic force to overcome sexual and domestic violence and cultural practices and values that sustain them--breaking down institutional systems and individual attitudes that isolate and blame victims. We offer hope, inspiration and guidance to people and organizations working toward healing.

Over 80 paired English/Spanish documents on violence against women: Help, Articles, Teaching Scenarios, Quizzes, Cases, Tips, Profiles, and much more at www.justicewomen.com

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The Stalking Victim's Resource Page
America has been hit with an escalating crisis it doesn't know how to handle. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of people have fallen victim to individuals who have obsessively focused on them. The phenomenon is called stalking.

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