Re:Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot
by mcherm on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @03:21PM
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Since everyone in your company enjoys this attitude, it's nothing but good, clean fun (or good dirty fun, depending on the color of the joke).
But someday you may hire someone who, as it turns out, does not appreciate the jokes. Or perhaps, like Jessamyn, enjoys the jokes sometimes but feels that they are overdone to the point of being irritating.
I would not advice you to tell this person "If [you] find it obnoxious [... you can] deal with it or leave." Because in the US (I can't speak for other places) that is illegal. If this sort of behavior is pervasive it is said to "create a hostile (or offensive) work environment", and if someone is fired (or effectively forced to leave) because they do not enjoy the behavior then they are well within their rights to sue your company.
But someday you may hire someone who, as it turns out, does not appreciate the jokes. Or perhaps, like Jessamyn, enjoys the jokes sometimes but feels that they are overdone to the point of being irritating.
I would not advice you to tell this person "If [you] find it obnoxious [... you can] deal with it or leave." Because in the US (I can't speak for other places) that is illegal. If this sort of behavior is pervasive it is said to "create a hostile (or offensive) work environment", and if someone is fired (or effectively forced to leave) because they do not enjoy the behavior then they are well within their rights to sue your company.