In order to become a hostile working environment, harassment that targets a protected class must be either: severe, or pervasive. You do not have to show that it was both severe and pervasive; only that it was one or the other. However, you do have to show that it was severe or pervasive enough to alter your working conditions.4 This involves looking at all of the circumstances surrounding your case. This means that creating a hostile work environment will take more than unwelcome and inappropriate workplace behavior that is: isolated, sporadic, occasional, or trivial.