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    Default Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist

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    What can I possibly do with my team against me?
    You can start by secretly recording what he says.

    Virginia is a one party consent state. A participant in the conversation may secretly record the conversation.

    See summary at:

    https://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recor...guide/virginia

    Each time you get him recorded, take it home and transfer it to your computer for safe-keeping.

    When you get enough to demonstrate blatant and continuous sexual harassment, send the recordings to the President of the company.

    HR will not help you. Nor will your boss' immediate superiors. This will have to come down from the top.

    It may take you a few months to amass enough incidents for the President to take it seriously.

    Meantime, seek employment elsewhere because there is an even chance that you will eventually lose your job over this. And then you'll have an EEOC claim and you can throw everybody under the bus.

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    Default Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist

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    HR will not help you. Nor will your boss' immediate superiors. This will have to come down from the top.
    I disagree. Your anti-corporate bias is showing through again. While that might be true at some firms it is definitely not true of all of them. HR and other management officials at a number of companies certainly will act when given solid evidence of the wrongful behavior. As you don't know the people at the firm she works for, you are not really in position to flat out say that HR "will not help you." It might, and she probably should start there with the evidence she gets, and then escalate it from there if needed.

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    Default Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist

    Some businesses will terminate you for skipping over HR or other departments and heading straight to the top. HR and other assets are created to perform a function. Ignoring them and thinking you need to bend the ear of the highest level you can reach is often not looked upon kindly.

    as to saving up all the evidence and somehow using that to throw everybody under the bus: an employee must allow the employer the opportunity to rectify the situation. The law states that an employee is considered an agent of the employer for the purposes of negative activity IF the employer knew or should have known of the issue. If the employer is not aware or an issue and has no reason to be aware of it, the only person under the bus is...

    well...

    maybe the single individual op claims to be the cause of the hostile work environment becasue the employer isn’t expected to rectify situations unless they are aware of them. That won’t do the op much good as long as the employer does act to correct any unlawful actions once they do become aware of them.

    The offending employee may get as little as a stern talking to and a “don’t do that anymore” which would fulfill the requirements of the employer under the law.

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    Default Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist

    I already approached HR as I mentioned in my previous post. They dismissed me because there was no one to back up my claims. Thanks for all your replies.

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    Default Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist

    So without some evidence or support for your claims it becomes a he said she said situation (to an extent). Why would a superior manager do anything more than HR if there is no support or proof of your claim?

    is there anybody that agrees with your position? Is there anybody that has witnessed whatever the manager is doing you believe to be improper? Did you inform HR of witness to the offensive behavior?

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    Default Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist

    HR should have started some level of investigation on the OPs first notification. And they may well have.

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    Default Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist

    Document. Write down dates, times, and conversations. Include the names of anyone who's overheard him. If you can legally tape secretly, do so. There's not much HR can do when it's a he-said, she-said situation, so make sure it's not. There is an HR parlance, if it isn't documented, it didn't happen. So get your documentation, have your proof, name your witnesses. Give them something they can work with.

    THEN if they still don't do anything, take your documentation and your tapes to the EEOC.

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    Default Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist

    OP should also keep a written log of the incidents, including date/time, what was said, who was present, location, etc.

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