Title VII of the Civil Rights act bars discrimination in employment. https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/titlevii.cfm

I’m in the bar business. Certainly not what you’d call a professional environment. And yes, I have a certain expectation that my servers are exposed to things that wouldn’t be acceptable in an office. Drunkenness, language, flirtation, etc. That said, A) never from your co-workers, B) If it crosses a line I act. Toss…

As has been pointed out, VICE’s clause is focused towards the actual content of what you’re covering. If you’re working in news, you’re going to cover some horrific and graphic things (such as the Vegas shooting, or any sexual assault story). You’re also going to run into people while covering news who (you don’t work…

I actually did work for Playboy. We did in fact sign agreements that addressed the content the company dealt with (we owned some hardcore porn sites - club jenna, spice...we saw a lot) and that we would be exposed to nudity and sex and occasional editorial references. There was a marked difference between the content…

Precisely, it implies that ANYTHING GOES if you work there and gives the company a pass on basically anything an employee could be uncomfortable about. “I was just joking” becomes a get out of jail free card where anything said in the workplace can be written off as “comedy.”

The civil rights act does not allow a man to grab a woman by the pussy, or threaten to do so. The State Labor Laws of New York State does not allow bosses to greet assistants with their dicks hanging out....which would (per barstool) be permissible as simply “nudity”. This agreement does not make provisions for…

I thought it was very entertaining that he attacked her for inserting herself (slash them?) into the story while he undid her redaction by inserting himself into the story.

Also, hasn’t Vice developed a reputation as kind of a shitty place to work?

Yep. Vice’s sounds like they’re talking about extreme source material, Barstool’s sounds like a crappy lawyer feeling like they’ve just created a loophole that will save their ass from “hostile work environment” harassment suits.

Except the Barstool waiver explicitly refers to their creative process rather than the source material

They basically asked her to sign away her rights under the Civil Rights Act. That is pretty bad.

Elika is not an employee. If they want to refer to their staff as boys and girls, fine, whatever, they are a loathsome company. But when referring to another adult, use woman. It’s not hard.

So is Portnoy the one who pretends to be neo-Nazi or the one who pretends to be offended at being called a neo-Nazi? Can never remember these things.

She is a woman, not a girl. Fuck this loathsome company.

He sounds like one because he is one.

I instinctively stop paying attention any time I read the word “friggin’” in a sentence.

I would have had zero problem with this if Portnoy had not responded and made himself look like a whiney douche.

Okay, so which is it? They claim they aren’t the shit heads we all think they are but they also want employees to sign a document saying they are exactly the type of shit heads we think they are and not to get mad. Please PFTCommenter, leave Barstool so we never have to hear about them ever again.

“She redacted our name, but everyone knows, because she kind of has a big mouth, that we offered her the contract. And she wanted everybody to know that, like, she turned us down. Thank friggin’ God, because it would have been a nightmare working with this girl.”

girls?