The incident:
A senior employee, in 2017, during a discussion with a subordinate female employee for her poor performance, commented "You have become blunt after marriage", after 6 months of her marriage. Is this comment a sexist and inconsiderate comment?
It may be mentioned that whereas the female employee worked from Monday to Saturday before marriage, she was assigned a project having Friday to Wednesday as working days, exactly after marriage. It was well-known in her office that she could not spend quality time with her partner and she was not provided casual leaves.
If the above mentioned comment is improper, can a complaint be raised now even if the senior employee resigned in 2019 and the subordinate female employee resigned in 2022.
She earlier did not raise any complaint to avoid being penalized by office politics.
From India, Chipurupalle
A senior employee, in 2017, during a discussion with a subordinate female employee for her poor performance, commented "You have become blunt after marriage", after 6 months of her marriage. Is this comment a sexist and inconsiderate comment?
It may be mentioned that whereas the female employee worked from Monday to Saturday before marriage, she was assigned a project having Friday to Wednesday as working days, exactly after marriage. It was well-known in her office that she could not spend quality time with her partner and she was not provided casual leaves.
If the above mentioned comment is improper, can a complaint be raised now even if the senior employee resigned in 2019 and the subordinate female employee resigned in 2022.
She earlier did not raise any complaint to avoid being penalized by office politics.
From India, Chipurupalle
Hello, There’s no need to entertain what belongs to past as both are resigned and the female employee should have complained within 90 days. #Fictional story.
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Hi,
Are you the affected employee or HR of that Organization ?
The incident took place before 5 years back what is the point of raising the issue now ?
While in 2017 did she made any complaint to her Superiors or PoSH Committee in the Organisation if it was existing that time ?
The Senior is bit rude with his comment. However considering the time frame and also as both parties involved were not working in the same Organisation I suggest the issue can be ignored .
From India, Madras
Are you the affected employee or HR of that Organization ?
The incident took place before 5 years back what is the point of raising the issue now ?
While in 2017 did she made any complaint to her Superiors or PoSH Committee in the Organisation if it was existing that time ?
The Senior is bit rude with his comment. However considering the time frame and also as both parties involved were not working in the same Organisation I suggest the issue can be ignored .
From India, Madras
Dear member,
The woman employee is smart and is playing safe. But then she is half-clever too!
Nevertheless, while raising the post, you have not given the background of the case. In what capacity have you raised this post? Were you the senior employee in question or the woman employee who was the recipient of the comment or a third party? If a third party, then were you a witness of the incident? When the incident happened, did the woman employee raise objection against the word "blunt"? If yes, then what explanation did the senior give?
The incident happens in 2017 and still, the woman employee keeps quiet till 2022. However, after her resignation as well as the resignation of the senior, now wants to rake up the matter! Therefore, there is room to interpret that there is more than meets the eye. Did they have a personal relationship, however, as it went sour, to settle the score, is she digging up the incident buried in the past?
Your company can handle the matter of the employees who are on the rolls. If she has put up a formal application for the redressal of the grievance, then she may be told that as both the employees are former employees, the matter is beyond the ambit of the administration of your company.
Coming to the use of the sentence "You have become blunt after marriage". The important word here is blunt which has several meanings. Therefore, even if the senior employee is asked for an explanation, he can very well say that he meant "loss of sharpness". If asked "the sharpness of what?", then he can very well say, "intellectual sharpness". For expressing anguish or lament over the loss of intellectual sharpness, he cannot be held guilty.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar
From India, Bangalore
The woman employee is smart and is playing safe. But then she is half-clever too!
Nevertheless, while raising the post, you have not given the background of the case. In what capacity have you raised this post? Were you the senior employee in question or the woman employee who was the recipient of the comment or a third party? If a third party, then were you a witness of the incident? When the incident happened, did the woman employee raise objection against the word "blunt"? If yes, then what explanation did the senior give?
The incident happens in 2017 and still, the woman employee keeps quiet till 2022. However, after her resignation as well as the resignation of the senior, now wants to rake up the matter! Therefore, there is room to interpret that there is more than meets the eye. Did they have a personal relationship, however, as it went sour, to settle the score, is she digging up the incident buried in the past?
Your company can handle the matter of the employees who are on the rolls. If she has put up a formal application for the redressal of the grievance, then she may be told that as both the employees are former employees, the matter is beyond the ambit of the administration of your company.
Coming to the use of the sentence "You have become blunt after marriage". The important word here is blunt which has several meanings. Therefore, even if the senior employee is asked for an explanation, he can very well say that he meant "loss of sharpness". If asked "the sharpness of what?", then he can very well say, "intellectual sharpness". For expressing anguish or lament over the loss of intellectual sharpness, he cannot be held guilty.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar
From India, Bangalore
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