Harassment?

[cbg]

"I would be willing to bet if the OP had been female and the same comments were made a good SH case could/would be made. "

I disagree, Dash. Sexual harassment is about SEX. It is not about weight. And while I used the masculine pronoun, that was a guess (I had a 50-50 chance of being wrong) and given the fact that the poster refers to an eating disorder there's a pretty good chance that s/he (which is what I should have done - slap wrist) IS female (statistically, most individuals with eating disorders are female). I've been through sexual harassment training many times and have conducted sexual harassment investigations; I would not classify this as SH regardless of the gender of the complaintant. Nor would I have classified the comment you suggested in your example as SH.

I'm not trying to start anything either but remember that I AM trained in this. It's what I do for a living. Okay?

 

[issy]

"Racial and Other Types of Unlawful Harassment

The College prohibits verbal or physical acts based on race, color, national origin, religion, disability, age, marital status, pregnancy, height or weight that have no professionally appropriate relationship to the subject matter of a course and are so severe and pervasive that they objectively either (i) unreasonably interfere with an individual's work or academic performance, or (ii) create an intimidating, hostile or offensive learning or working environment."

I find that this is a standard or common policy in organisations... and it specifically states weight. Wouldn't this be able to count for anything? Maybe "azriel57" could grab a copy of his old company's policies, and if it states anything similar to the one above, he could act upon it?

 

[ENASNI]

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Issy... that was nice of you to do some research, but this was 7 months ago, I doubt the original poster will come back.
They frown on dredging up old posts around here, so watch the dates you reply to.

 

[cbg]

Besides which, company policy is not law. EVEN IF there were a company policy prohibiting comments about weight, that would not give the OP any LEGAL recourse because the LAW does not have such a prohibition. At most, it might give the OP an internal grievance, if such a policy existed. But it would not give him/her any legal recourse no matter how you slice it.