Because Pubic Hair in Coke Is So Last Century
Sexual harassment comes in all shapes and sizes. From the Connecticut Employment Law Blog:
I enjoy my work as an employment lawyer for the simple fact that each case is different and "you can't make this stuff up."An article in today's The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut, proves that theory correct. [It's] about a female town of Stamford employee who was disciplined for allegedly harassing a male supervisor, [and] contains the sorts of details that you really can't make up.
According to the article, the alleged harassment by the female employee included sending an e-mail with lyrics from a Barenaked Ladies song.
Considering the weirdness of this incident, of course it happened in a law office. The victim of the purported harassment was Stamford's Director of Legal Affairs.
The lyric that got the employee in trouble -- "I knew you before the fall of Rome," from the song "It's All Been Done" -- is surprising. But this case, involving a female employee allegedly harassing her male supervisor, is not your run-of-the-mill harassment incident.
It would be much more probable for a male supervisor to harass a female subordinate -- with a song lyric like, for example, "Hike up your skirt a little more, and show your world to me" (Dave Matthews Band, "Crash").
Report: Female Employee Uses "Barenaked Ladies" to Harass Male Supervisor [Connecticut Employment Law Blog]
City disciplines female employee for harassing male supervisor [Stamford Advocate]
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Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:35 PM
Furrrrst!
Posted by: Bill Frist | November 5, 2007 03:37 PM
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Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:37 PM
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Posted by: The Big Red One | November 5, 2007 03:37 PM
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Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:38 PM
first!
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:39 PM
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Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:39 PM
Furrrrst!
Posted by: Bill Frist | November 5, 2007 03:39 PM
moo
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:39 PM
last century is not that long ago.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:41 PM
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Posted by: Bill Frist | November 5, 2007 03:41 PM
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Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:42 PM
FIRST for the THIRD time!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: YoMama | November 5, 2007 03:42 PM
I once found one in a cookie...but never in a coke.
Posted by: Pubes, pubes everywhere | November 5, 2007 03:42 PM
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Posted by: Bill Frist | November 5, 2007 03:44 PM
I don't understand what she did and how it was harassment.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:44 PM
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Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:44 PM
My superior made me do coke off of a place where there was once pubic hair. Was that harassment?
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:48 PM
I liked the previous headline (sans the words "in Coke" better, though it led me to believe that the article would be much more interesting than it actually is.
Pubic hair is indeed so last century.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:50 PM
Hey LAT - why so FEW posts on biglaw compensation? We aren't coming here to see who posted FIRST on some third rate sexual harassment lawsuit post, dammit.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:52 PM
Yikes...are you drunk, Lat? This post reads like one of Merck's!
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:53 PM
Come on LAT, we need photos.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:53 PM
3:44-
i second that. i read the stamford advocate article too, and still i have no idea what went on here or how that lyric is offensive.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:54 PM
Yikes...what's going on, Lat? This post reads like one of Merck's!
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:54 PM
I am a horny male law student. I wish that some woman would PLEASE sexually harass me.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 03:58 PM
Martha MacIsaac, the girl who plays the mousy love interest in Superbad, is actually kind of cute. Discuss.
http://www.soulpepper.ca/productions/2006/actor_bios/images/Macisaac_Martha_L.jpg
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 04:01 PM
A DMB reference? Now THAT'S so last century. Doesn't Dave do commercials for Ford now?
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 04:03 PM
Come on LAT, we need photos.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 04:04 PM
wgwag
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 04:16 PM
photos photos photos.....
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 04:20 PM
I am still trying to figure out how "I knew you before the fall of Rome." is risque.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 04:33 PM
I would feel harassed only because I hate Barenaked Ladies so much.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 05:00 PM
The song is entitled "Crash," not "Crash Into Me."
Posted by: DAVERULEZ | November 5, 2007 05:04 PM
Considering the weirdness of this blog post, of course it was written by Merck.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 05:07 PM
What was the harrassment exactly, other than maybe the name of the band?
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2007 05:20 PM
Sending Dave Mathews Band lyrics is not sexual harassment, its just harassment. At least she didn't make him listen to the song.
Posted by: B | November 6, 2007 09:20 AM
Seriously, would someone please explain what the $% the harrassment suit is about? I don't get it and all this talk of public hair or the absence thereof has piqued my interest.
Posted by: Anonamiss | November 7, 2007 06:21 PM