They were warned. It was explained to them. Still, they persisted.

With a few exceptions, yes. You have to show you’ve tried to go through the proper channels first because you’d be suing the company under discrimination laws. If you’re only suing the harasser for something like assault, emotional distress, etc you wouldn’t have to but I don’t know how common those types of suits are.

And record the conversations with your phone. Even if it’s not admissible in court, the bad PR would strong arm them into taking action.

HR is NEVER, EVER your friend. Go in there with a strategy!

No. There’s no legal requirement I’m aware of to first contact your company’s HR department in a workplace dispute. There’s no reason you couldn’t go to HR after you take the matter to your lawyer, but honestly, I have to imagine any legal mind worth their salt would advise against it. Again, HR is there to protect…

Tech people build and maintain the water filtration and cleaning system for the potable water traveling through pipes. They work and control the power plants that produce electricity. There would not be any shop techs without the people designing and creating new products. So, you’re wrong. Tech people do actual work…

Software development is engineering of a different type where your laboratory, workshop, proving ground, and production platform are all virtual.

You don’t think coding is work? Fuck yourself and go back to the 19th century.

I know it’s said almost every time, but it bares repeating. HR is not there to defend you, it’s there to defend the company. If you have grounds to do so like Susan did, catalog evidence and take it to a lawyer.

In this case, the thing Blanco was doing was existing as a trans person in too close proximity to a bigoted asswipe.

Dear homophobes, racists, sexist, and xenophobes: it is not the job of everyone else in the world who is not like you to erase their identities just so you can remain “comfortable.” Get over yourselves.

because she started ot as the sweet as pie disney star, then was the super sexy girl all their bfs/husbands lusted after her, so the moment her addiction and mental health issues surfaced rather than show any form of human decency for a very troubled girl they decided instead to take great glee in ripping her to…

This is heartening to see. Given Delta’s past behavior with racist incidents, I’d have expected a less empathetic response from them.

Agreed. The only thing Lindsay has ever done was be exploited and pimped out as an underage girl/child by her mother and the entertainment industry. People should be rallying around her. She was abused as a child.

Why do people love to hate Lindsay Lohan so much? What am I missing?

I’m asking honestly. I don’t remember her doing anything egregious, but then again, I wasn’t exactly paying attention to early-2000s celebrity hijinks.

Can anyone more twitter competent than me (I tried, promise) fill me in on the rest of Delta’s response?

That sounds interesting. We do have medical marijuana here, but I’m not sure how my dad would feel about it. He had a wild past which included getting in trouble for pot as a teen so he’s very nervous about it now. But I’m interested! :)

Yeah I am a 10 step Korean skincare crazy person, but my skin looks the best it ever has, so whatever! I find it helps with my depression and with all the crap going on with the US these days, sticking to a routine is helping me get through it.

I explained calmly and in extreme detail to the one caller how my advisor screwed up and cost me an extra semester, and that they could mark that down as my donation for the rest of eternity. They stopped calling.

After 10 years, I finished paying off my student loans today! *High fives all around*