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Comment on Fetching Coffee as Sexual Harassment by Baelwulf

Baelwulf — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:43:34 +0000

She was an administrative assistant. The rough outline of this is that while she’s on the clock, she assists her boss with whatever he needs throughout the day. Further, a male secretary would be expected to get coffee for his boss, and a female boss would expect her assistant to get coffee for her, regardless of gender.

The most probable scenario here is that the woman heard somewheres that she can get out of basically anything by throwing the words “Sexual Harassment” around, and when it backfired she panicked.

It was a frivolous suit and the courts were completely correct in dismissing it.

Comment on Fetching Coffee as Sexual Harassment by johnnypeepers

johnnypeepers — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:45:11 +0000

I agree with the outcome as well. The plaintiff has to prove that the discrimination was gender based. Since few men are hired for this role, instances of men being fired for refusing to serve coffee are rare. Maybe more men can be placed in this role to test the theory, but that would mean denying women the job to begin with. A catch-22 for sure.

Comment on Fetching Coffee as Sexual Harassment by O'Maolchathaigh

O'Maolchathaigh — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:06:51 +0000

Making coffee has always been assigned to the least valued employee; it is implied that other duties are less than important than performing the duty of a servant. No job description has ever mentioned making coffee. The men in that company were either very lazy, inconsiderate, or testing their authority. They won the right to have a slave perform menial tasks out of her job description. Perhaps they would have asked a junior male employee to do the same thing, but if they refuse to hire men for such positions, and only hire women, under the expectation that a woman can make coffee for them without complaint, then discrimination and harassment looks and quacks like a duck in this case.

Comment on Fetching Coffee as Sexual Harassment by pobept

pobept — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:23:09 +0000

Companies that put in writing general job duties and have the employee read and sign this document Before employment have few job duty related problems.

Comment on Fetching Coffee as Sexual Harassment by JayTee

JayTee — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:40:57 +0000

“…….can we refuse the parts of our jobs we don’t like…”

Yes, if you are a female, no, if you are a male.

Comment on Fetching Coffee as Sexual Harassment by Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:33:21 +0000

Implied?! Not at all! We in the carpentry trade have a long history of picking the coffee bitch to make the run to Dunkin Donuts… and he’s usually the prettiest one.

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