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Comment Harrassment Not an Issue to Tiptoe Around (Score 1) 1127

Having a workplace where "guys are guys" is not a tolerable solution in today's workplace. If you care about your shareholders and or brand, you're going to have to change your culture pretty quickly to avoid potential trouble. The simple way to make it clear is by helping current employees understand the definition of a harrassing work environment - a.k.a if ONE employee (even one not being harrassed) perceives the environment as harrassive - the workplace is considered harrassive and changes need to take place. The fact that a couple of women on the team "can take it" does not make it ok. An employee who witnesses harrassive behavior (even if tolerated by the target of a barb or comment), can claim (legitimately) that the workplace tolerates harrassment. The burden of proof is NOT high and represents a serious vulnerability to those companies which fail to recognize and correct inappropriate behavior quickly. That said, I hope your company succeeds.
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Journal Journal: Reintroducing myself to Slashdot

Made an entry into Slashdot, rejected as spam. I'm a little disappointed but I haven't used Slashdot in so long I don't know how it works.

I like the format and will try other submissions some other time. In the meantime perhaps I'll stick to just reading and participating in threads until I get the gist of it.

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Submission + - Two more men with HIV now virus-free (msn.com)

Diggester writes: Two men unlucky enough to get both HIV and cancer have been seemingly cleared of the virus, raising hope that science may yet find a way to cure for the infection that causes AIDS, 30 years into the epidemic.

The researchers are cautious in declaring the two men cured, but more than two years after receiving bone marrow transplants, HIV can't be detected anywhere in their bodies. These two new cases are reminiscent of the so-called "Berlin patient," the only person known to have been cured of infection from the human immunodeficiency virus.

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