{"id":21024,"date":"2014-07-14T16:11:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=21024"},"modified":"2014-07-14T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T20:11:17","slug":"philip-galaness-advice-about-sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=21024","title":{"rendered":"Philip Galanes’s advice about sexual harassment in the workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"

I absolutely adore Philip Galanes<\/a>, the New York Times’s tart, bracing, often hilariously funny “Social Q” columnist<\/a> whose advice appears every Sunday in the Times Style section. I always lap him up.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, he answered a question from a young woman:<\/p>\n

Practice Steering<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I am 19 and work in a car dealership. My co-workers have started saying to potential buyers: “We have a cute, single receptionist. Why don’t you ask her out?” These comments make me extremely uncomfortable. I also get nervous I may hurt a sale by saying no. When I asked my co-workers to stop, they laughed at me. Is there any way to stop this without hurting my position at work? Anonymous<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s Galanes brilliant answer, and I pass it on as advice to all young women in similar positions:<\/p>\n

Let’s call this one by its name. You are being sexually harassed in the workplace, which stinks. Also understood: wanting to preserve your job. If there are people up the chain who will sympathize with your discomfort, go to them. But I suspect there aren’t, or you would have already. I also suspect that your relative youth is part of the reason your complaints have been laughed off. Use it for a low-key fix. Find someone at the dealership with a daughter your age and ask for help. Nothing like picturing our own loved ones in vile circumstances to get us to do the right thing. Or the next time a colleague suggests a date, appeal to his customer directly by saying: “John thinks sexual harassment is hysterical. It’s probably why women hate him.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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