Opinion ID: 705166
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Events Prior to December, 1988

Text: 12 Tomka claims that the work environment at Seiler was permeated with a discriminatory animus towards women in general and that various Seiler supervisors and employees subjected her to sexual jokes, comments, and innuendos. Specifically, Tomka lists a number of incidents which occurred at various locations to which Tomka had been assigned: 13 i) Mark Toomey, a senior account executive in Seiler's Sales Division, stated that he would buy a diamond bracelet for someone who would be special to him; while looking at Tomka, he then stated I wonder if anyone in this office could be special to me? Toomey later asked Jim Green, a Seiler manager who was standing with Tomka, if Tomka and Green were sleeping together. Plaintiff's Responses to Seiler's First Set of Interrogatories (Pl.Resp.) at pp. 4-5; 14 ii) While on an inspection with Tomka and two other male Seiler employees, Jessie Parker, a district manager, grabbed plaintiff's hand and stated Carol, when are you going to go out with me? Id.; 15 iii) Ray Taylor instructed plaintiff to accompany him to Toomey's house for dinner and to bring a bathing suit to use in Toomey's pool; upon arrival at Toomey's house, Toomey expressed disappointment that Tomka was not wearing her bathing suit because he had been looking forward to seeing her in it. Tomka's Supplemental Responses to Seiler's First Set of Interrogatories (Pl.Sup.Resp.), at p. 3; 16 iv) Harry Snook, a senior account executive in Seiler's Sales Division, talked on the phone with Douglass Snook, the Vice President in charge of the Environmental Services Division and stated, with Tomka present, that and when I am not doing that I'll be in bed with Carole Tomka. Tomka said nothing and left the office from which the call had been made. Pl.Resp. at p. 5. 17 v) At a required orientation function, a Seiler manager at Tomka's table referred to a radio show that had discussed women's underwear. Pl.Sup.Resp. at p. 3; 18 vi) While on an inspection with Tomka and two other male Seiler employees, Douglass Snook turned to the two employees and stated [a] bunch of us were sitting around at dinner the other night and we all wondered does she fuck. Snook looked at Tomka as he made this remark, and then laughed and said, [n]o, more appropriately does she fuck you? After Snook laughed again, Tomka walked away from the group. Pl.Resp. at p. 6; 19 vii) Unidentified male Seiler employees nicknamed Tomka Sergeant Slaughter and stated that she had great legs. Id. at p. 7. 20 Prior to December, 1988, Tomka had not complained to anyone at Seiler about this harassment. See Complaint at p 11.