Saturday, January 15, 2011

The Anti Harassment Policy

Our company has a very strict code to prevent sexual harassment. Its acronym is ‘Shashi’ (name changed by me here to prevent identification). They don’t hesitate to lose the best of the talent, if one is found guilty in this case. The time I recall was from when we had joined recently and we were sent for an induction to know about this policy. For the days to come, references to this code with a curious name were to circulate in the fun moments at work.
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All of us were young, only a few were married. One day, a friend tells another, pointing towards another lady colleague, that she was married and had a baby. He perhaps found it difficult to believe, but confident that he was, he went straight to the girl and asks, “Do you have a baby?” :) The girl was clever and witted. And more relevant: she was unmarried. Hearing his query she appeared furious and scolded our friend saying how he dare could ask her that! Our friend was embarrassed in front of everyone. The girl went on to say that she would apply Sashi against him to take revenge. Our friend tolerated everything curiously and kept saying sorry, sorry. But when he returned, we didn’t find him either sad or embarrassed. The first thing he spoke when he came to us was a question:
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“Who is Shashi? Is she nice?”
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:)
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PS: Our friend is the same one who appeared in “The Dormitory”.

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