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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
No, it's not. Which is funny coming from someone with corporate in their name. Clearly your HR has failed you on this one.
Unwanted comments, such as "you're yummy" clearly in reference to the physical and sex of the person, is very clear sexual misconduct. It's a very broad term, but also very clear one.
But sure, we're Nazis because we don't think women should be called babe, yummy, or honey in the workplace.  |
I'll chime in because I do work in HR. I'm not sure the point you were trying to make by using the term 'sexual misconduct' when you could have just said sexual harassment. It did seem kind of misleading in the way you were using it, regardless of whether you are technically correct or not.
But back on track, most harassment policies will have specific language that addresses comments on physical appearance, which I would consider this. I'm not really sure if this would be considered a term of endearment. But this would still be a violation of the policy.
If Ken said this at our workplace with no other history/misconduct on file, he'd probably written up.