| Wow, that's quite extreme. But it doesn't have to be a crazy person like that. Some more everyday activities that might make someone uncomfortable in the workplace even without direct interactions: - wearing T-shirts with scantily clad women in the workplace (http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/13/living/matt-taylor-shirt-p...) - wearing other T-shirts deemed inappropriate (heavy metal T-shirts with pentagrams or whatever; once, in the US, I wore a T-shirt referencing marijuana to a casual restaurant and was told off) - displaying political preferences or religious ideas not shared and potentially considered dangerous by others - having a desktop background image deemed inappropriate (scantily clad women, again) - visiting websites or watching YouTube videos deemed inappropriate during your breaks I'm not saying complaints about any of these are justified (although I don't think the workplace needs to be sexualized), but these are things people do complain about, in the real world. If you "feel innocent", and even if you pass the famous "I asked my female friends and they said it was OK" test, that still doesn't mean that nobody can complain about these things. |
Displaying scantily clad women in the workplace in any shape or form would most certainly warrant an HR action. As a manager of an offending individual I'd certainly be the 1st one to react.