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Asking somebody out isn't sexual harassment. Insisting and making crude work-inappropriate remarks is harassment, and that's not just in the US: [76/207/EEC] Article 2 § 2

> harassment: where an unwanted conduct related to the sex of a person occurs with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, and of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment

> sexual harassment: where any form of unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature occurs, with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, in particular when creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment

[76/207/EEC] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLE...
Not a lot of insight in this article. Is it on the front page for the giggles?
First of all, talk to a lawyer.

One thing that is really overlooked about harassment is that it's not about a single event. Realize a few things:

* She's saying that it's ok because in the real world most companies will protect the man over the woman. Women who want to get ahead learn to never put her neck out too far. All too often, clearly bad behavior will result in "training" for the guy. (After all, she was a hottie asking for it, am I right?) Do you really want accept an apology for her that it's not a big deal that she was harassed at work?

* Workplace harassment happens because most guys know they _can_ get away with it. More importantly: if this was the line cause a stir, the he'll just be more subtle next time. It's boundary testing that is no different from a four-year-old. It _will_ get around, because this guy will associate with others who don't mind his behavior. Do you really want to be known for that type of environment?

* Once the workplace accepts an event, it becomes that much harder to rationalize dealing with equal or less events. You'll have people actually arguing that Henry wasn't punished when asked Sally out, why are you punishing me? And, he could have valid precedent. Do you really want to be dealing with the fine lines between behaviors?

Fundamentally, sexual harassment erodes trust. If you have a workplace that has clear line between humor and personal relations, that creates teams who understand and care about each other: you can joke about sexual innuendo, personal problems, etc. When someone is unhappy with something, he or she feels safe to speak up. Encourage people being humble and considerate. If harassment is allowed, at best it just causes drama. At worst, it causes power problems that kill trust, brings in more people who causes problems, and the real possibility that someone could own your start up by lawsuit.
The only part that actually qualifies as sexual harassment is that he called her a milf. Although it's entirely up to the discretion of the victim what's harassment and what isn't (unless the founder is there to witness it himself).
I remember liking amaroK but of course that was like ten years ago so who knows if it's anything like the program I used to use.
This particular portion smells of a deliberate attempt to differentiate: "we are doing it 100% right now!" It says that their culture was never considered and its more of an attack on their old way of life. I'd venture to guess that much of that section is to create confidence in the "new" cultural values through differentiation.

I highly doubt there was a meeting where the old values where decided and driven forward in the company. This is all in an effort to be transparent again, just as they originally planned.
Actually, as it potentially a source of liability for the company, reporting it to management if not merely acceptable but good for the management. On the other hand, firing the reporting party for reporting the incident is clearly and blatantly illegal.
SEE YA!

Door. ASS. Way Out. Consult a Lawyer if you feel like it.

This kind of thing doesn't get better.
Really can't stress it enough that you need to lawyer up before literally anything else.

Do not talk to them, do not go into work, take sick days if you have to, don't respond to emails, phone calls, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING until you have talked it all out with your lawyer, and then do exactly what he instructs you to do.

Don't let this destroy your dream, friend! Especially over someone else's bad choices. Be safe, lawyer up, get this taken care of and move on with the work.
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Well, I tried to upgrade my 15.05 (desktop PC) and during the update I got several error messages and now my installation is completely bricked :(

What makes me especially angry is that I had an almost completely vanilla installation, apart from a few dev applications.
John Dickson wasn't pissed off, but got a big shock when it occurred.
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Correct. The law does not mean anything if we simply discard and refuse to obey the elements that we believe are unfair. That would be anarchy. Part of the compromise we make in modern society is the willingness to submit to communal norms and standards that are codified into law even if we personally don't agree with the rationale behind those laws. Later, this same courtesy is extended to us when fellow citizens comply with a law that they find personally disagreeable but for which we had successfully lobbied. This is the compromise of living in a democratic society. We need to accept it and comply when the law makes a determination that contradicts our personal preferences, even as we continue to work on rectifying what we perceive as bad law through the democratic process.

In exceptional cases, compliance is not required because it would violate a higher moral principle, but most of the time, the moral thing to do is to honor the law.
Can anybody tell if this dude's bluffing or not? Can Myopia be reduced?
>albeit crudely

There you have it. I'd bet dollar to doughnuts that if this person had simply "expressed interest," I don't think there would have been an issue. But if a total stranger says they only want to "hang out" as friends, and your reaction is to call them a MILF and try to share some creepy "secret" with them, that's clearly an unwanted interaction.
What is a manager supposed to do in this situation that does not lead to something along the lines of that? In that case, why bother bringing it up?
Why hasn't HN implemented a collapsible thread function yet like Reddit? I love HN comments, but this is my biggest gripe.
Guess this begs the question of how "big is better" in pop-culture.

Anyone know?
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Since we are not I guess the conservation can be it's obviously fake.

Or else why do they keep cutting it?

It's just a series of small rube machines (aka luck pot shots) faked together?

The wood grains look pretty similar to me between shots.

Not to say the art of a fake movies is valueless, the masses and what they believe are funny to watch, but not up to HN standards about truth and hacking and engineering.
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no. what this means is try harder if you want improvement over current state. be prepared for a change.

please stop putting words in my mouth I didn't say nor implied and let's keep this discussion civil
> I think the consensus in the grown-up business world is "fire immediately for cause."

Not in my experience, and it's not the law (as taught in the myriad of training courses I've endured over the years). The man should have an opportunity to learn from this mistake, then be fired when he proves incapable of learning.

Providing the warning and training is enough to legally cover the company's ass if the guy screws up again.

Yes, it's a big mistake to make, but when your hiring pool is predominately college graduates, it's pretty likely they don't know the law (or how to navigate romance in the workplace) either. Time to educate them.

EDIT: It's also important to get the other side of the story; why did this guy feel it was appropriate to approach the woman in the first place? Were there conversations not included in the record? Was there body language the man misinterpreted?
Curious, then, that John Dicksons post was specifically removed. Why was someone reviewing it at all? Sure, they accidentally deleted it - they admitted as much when they officially apologised to John. But then again, why was a staffer looking at Dicksons post at all?
Oh God, yes, lawyer. And yes, fire him. In regards to OPs confusion about the innocent employees trepidation -- there is a reasonable fear of reprisals here. From you, from others on the team, and from the sexual harasser.

Reprisals are often not easily identified -- they can be subtle and social in nature. What often happens is that the person who reports harassment is then punished because people no longer want to talk to her. They keep her out of the loop on casual stuff, but lots of professional discussions happen in casual contexts. Over time, she gets iced out for reporting illegal behavior.

And then there is the fact that this person who has already shown a marked disrespect for women and a willingness to cross appropriate boundaries will know exactly why he has been fired. If you've ever been on the receiving end of a sustained campaign of abuse and harassment, that is not something to take lightly.

You should do everything you can to make sure she doesn't suffer for having reported illegal behavior, and you should reassure her that you'll have her back in whatever way you can. That might mean working out with her and HR what the best way to move forward is, keeping in mind that she has every reason to think she's going to get screwed over in this process, because that's what happens the vast majority of the time.

I'd say it's actually a huge vote of confidence in you that she brought this to you immediately.
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99.9% with you, but I would suggest a minor change to your last sentence. Either:
- Don't say anything about the departing employee
- Note that his/her behavior violated company policy/policies
- Give the euphemistic "X decided they weren't a good fit for our organization and is pursuing other opportunities"
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No, but neither I find appropriate if the same co-worker asked for other similarly personal thing/favor out of blue (i.e. "let's meet my parents tomorrow"), but if he/she accepts "no" and doesn't bother me anymore, I would only give a strange look.
I once worked at a company where my wife was the director of HR. Her boss the president of the company was being "serviced" my a girl in marketing. On day she didn't get a promotion. Then she sued for sexual harresment. The delema put my wife in the hospital. Ruined my marriage. Ruined the ceo's marriage. Ruined the company.

Fire them both! Make it very public that you will not tolerate your time being wasted by idiots. If two employes can't resolve their own issues without involving you then you don't need them.

If the innocent party was truly free of blame you can always hire them back.
> Have you a sexual harassment policy? Did they agree to it when they took the job?

The United States of America have a sexual harassment policy. They also have theft and murder policies. This isn't a matter of company policy, although covering up these things may be.
> it means that once it's been reported, it is extremely unwise to just "let it go".

That isn't a quote from the person you replied to and that isn't what they said at all. Not even ballpark.

You seem to be replying to a strawman argument rather than the person you hit reply on.
It's baffling/hilarious/concerning to me that there are multiple commenters saying they're not able to see the harassment and asking for clarification.
LOL. Reminds me of George being a hand model in Seinfeld.
Really such editor-related gitignore entries should go in the user's core.excludesfile, not repository's .gitignore

Its unlikely that anyone would try to make a file that conflicts with an editor-related gitignore entry, but it's nice to have the .gitignore file cleanly delineate exactly what garbage the build system and application create, without being cluttered up with entries for every editor that any developer might ever use.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7335420/global-git-ignore
When an employee makes you aware of a possible occurrence of sexual harassment, your obligation as the employer is to investigate and take appropriate action.

Tell the employee that your company isn't one that believes this kind of behavior is acceptable, tell her you're going to talk to a lawyer, tell her you need to investigate this, and that she isn't causing trouble and you're glad she brought this to your attention.

Get an HR professional, lawyer or not, and deal with this immediately.

Let me assure you, when she said she doesn't want to cause trouble, she didn't mean she wanted you to do nothing. It means she wants you to do something, and she doesn't want to be blamed, she doesn't want the office to talk about it, and she wants you to own it.

If you do nothing, one day, if she (or someone else) ever decides to file a lawsuit for sexual harassment and fostering a hostile work environment against your company, you saying "but she told me she didn't want to cause any trouble" is not an excuse to sit idly by.
While it's good to respect her wishes, the outcome of downplaying the problem could affect many more people. There's the cultural impact of leading people believing that sexual harassment isn't taken seriously, and the very real problem that leaving it alone could lead to it happening again which might result in a key employee leaving (or suing, or initiating criminal proceedings). At the very least there needs to be some sort of written warning to act as evidence that the business took it seriously.
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It works in an unrestricted Chrome instance. I wonder if there's a Google docs downloader script that directly gives me the PDF without dealing with the wonky website.
Many people go "lawyer lawyer lawyer", making your first sentence ambiguous: I first read it as "don't get a lawyer" but reading it again a minute later (after different context) you could mean "I am not a lawyer". Which do you mean?
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> Second, alcohol consumption declined dramatically during Prohibition. Cirrhosis death rates for men were 29.5 per 100,000 in 1911 and 10.7 in 1929. Admissions to state mental hospitals for alcoholic psychosis declined from 10.1 per 100,000 in 1919 to 4.7 in 1928.

From http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...:

> In 1926, in New York City, 1,200 were sickened by poisonous alcohol; 400 died. The following year, deaths climbed to 700

The poisonous alcohol was a direct result of prohibition. So I think focusing on just cirrhosis deaths paints an unfair picture of the actual health effects.
I love Amazon, but I wish they would integrate more with other companies. Did they really need to make their own app store?

I own several kindles, and I was hoping to play a few learning videos for my child on the kindle fire. Well, the Youtube support is quite lacking.

I am not sure if this new video venture will work out. Youtube has quite a bit of momentum, and it has far more support across the mainstream devices than anyone else.

Vimeo is second place in my mind, but I have not watched a video on there in ages.
Alone? probably not. On the other hand, I suspect the most people who are installing Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 are less interested in LTS than 16.04. Ubuntu Server, though, may be a different kettle of fish.

To put it another way, there are people for whom 16.04 is an upgrade from 15.10 and for whom 16.10 will be an upgrade to 16.04. I'm in that camp because it's a desktop and I'd rather not wait two years for the next version of my application software.
I think bearing in mind Hacker News origins and community, comments like this are appropriate to the audience.
It takes a special kind of arrogance to make accusations against people you don't know anything about.
I think people here are assuming that the other employee had a reason to go to the OP and show him the text, and that OP has a reason for being "really upset by th[e] guy's behaviour".
Simple: only hire straight men. Problem solved.
Just to play devil's advocate: how hard is it to spoof whatsapp/slack messages if one wanted to get someone fired?

If he denies that he sent the messages, or says he sent messages but the content has been altered where could the employer go then? "She's trying to get me sacked because ...". Where could you go from there to prove he committed an offense against propriety/policy?

Also, a perhaps more realistic issue is the move to WhatsApp could be seen as a move to personal interaction away from business interaction - if the employee alleged to have committed sexual harassment called her a milf once in a private conversation that was not a work context do they deserve to be fired?

Did he stop when asked, doesn't that mean it's not harassment? Still could be inappropriate and ultimate lead to firing but to me harassment is an ongoing series of incidents.
The only thing I would add to patio11's advice is to go back to the employee and let her know what's about to happen. If you do it without any warning, then yes she might feel that it was a breach of trust. But, if you tell her before you fire the guy you can maintain trust.
Is this going to be tied to Amazon's crappy app store as well so regular Android users won't use it?
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I have been facing networking issues. The network list completely disappears. "sudo systemctl restart network-manager.service" is needed to bring those back. Read somewhere that it has something to do with systemd.
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I would be very concerned that this is an indication that she has reason to expect that dealing with this problem will result in aneruption of other problems.on the team, which may stem from persistent, lower level harassment that is already occurring.

That may actually be a bigger hostile work environment problem than the more blatant incident.
Yes, it is. Undoubtedly.
You really do not need something like this derailing your startup. Hire a lawyer, and follow their advice.

Large companies like Intel give each employee rigorous sexual harassment training, but this is not something startups can always afford to do.
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It is prime time for competitors of YouTube to come out of the woodwork. Everyone is incredibly tired of YouTube's bonkers copyright complaints system which has already resulted in many people moving to Twitch.

To beat YouTube you essentially need to reproduce YouTube then create a more balanced playing field between content creators and copyright owners. At the moment the content creators exist in a "guilty until proven innocent world" where the copyright owner are the judge and jury too! It is bonkers, fair usage is dead on YouTube.
I wonder if they've just hard coded their names for now because they had trouble doing fingerspelling, because I doubt that someone's name-sign is just a 'T'. That's really close to the sign for 'bathroom', which would be weird :)
I know my opinion on this sort of thing isn't exactly popular, but I just feel that it is morally wrong for one person to have so much wealth that he can afford to control the entire output of a huge number of people over their entire working lives.
Tell her that you understand she doesn't want him fired, but that you need to protect all your other employees. He just started. It's not about her- it's about people who won't report it.

People who join your company later will be scared of existing employees, and probably won't report it. You can't be party to this.
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well if you are a capitalist, sir, you believe in market forces, no? if somebody's conditions are bad in one location due to unreasonable rent, but better in other why shouldn't they move to this better location but rather expect that market bends itself to support them? I do believe that all people should earn enough to afford adequately good place for their life, but this cannot be simply any location anywhere, because whatever. that's not how free market works.

btw this market bending is happening all the time, it's called social programs, progressive taxes etc.
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What exactly is fake about it? It's clearly not intended to be portrayed as a continuous system... It's just a series of cool shit man