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I need some advice
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RE: I need some advice
(September 19, 2014 at 3:16 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I had a situation at work today with a coworker. I recently started at a local call center, and this is a pretty big operation where they are hiring about 150-200 people. As a result of this I am in a large training of about 20 people. Now I have high functioning autism, and that makes me seem a little weird to some people. Its not something I'm ashamed of but I don't advertise it to people for obvious reasons. Now yesterday we changed up seats, and today of woman of about 40 prominently proclaimed too the entire class that she was mad she had to sit next to me because I'm a creep and I ask weird questions. I pretended it didn't bother at the time and a few minutes later I came hip with a reason to go to HR. Now when I went to hr they asked me what I would like to see to which I responded that I never want to see this lady again. They said they would email my trainer to talk to my class about professionalism.
In other words they are not doing shit, how should I deal with this moving forward?

Bite your lip and keep your job -- but if she repeats the behavior, tell her immediately and in front of everyone present that you "expect" the behavior to stop immediately -- then go to HR once again, and explain to them, in these words, that you have this chance to resolve this issue in-house.

Of course, you had better be prepared to go forward with a lawyer using a "hostile workplace" claim based on your autism.

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I need some advice - by Lemonvariable72 - September 19, 2014 at 3:16 pm
RE: I need some advice - by Cato - September 19, 2014 at 3:21 pm
RE: I need some advice - by CapnAwesome - September 19, 2014 at 3:24 pm
RE: I need some advice - by rexbeccarox - September 19, 2014 at 3:30 pm
RE: I need some advice - by Lemonvariable72 - September 19, 2014 at 5:17 pm
RE: I need some advice - by CapnAwesome - September 20, 2014 at 3:41 am
RE: I need some advice - by Aoi Magi - September 19, 2014 at 3:37 pm
RE: I need some advice - by fr0d0 - September 19, 2014 at 6:22 pm
RE: I need some advice - by Lemonvariable72 - September 19, 2014 at 6:39 pm
RE: I need some advice - by Minimalist - September 19, 2014 at 6:24 pm
RE: I need some advice - by Little lunch - September 19, 2014 at 7:34 pm
RE: I need some advice - by ShaMan - September 19, 2014 at 7:35 pm
RE: I need some advice - by Thumpalumpacus - September 19, 2014 at 8:13 pm
RE: I need some advice - by pocaracas - September 20, 2014 at 4:00 am
RE: I need some advice - by Lemonvariable72 - September 20, 2014 at 1:46 pm
RE: I need some advice - by pocaracas - September 20, 2014 at 5:32 pm
RE: I need some advice - by Lemonvariable72 - September 20, 2014 at 7:27 pm
RE: I need some advice - by CapnAwesome - September 21, 2014 at 2:28 am
RE: I need some advice - by Thumpalumpacus - September 21, 2014 at 8:10 am
RE: I need some advice - by CapnAwesome - September 21, 2014 at 9:45 am
RE: I need some advice - by Thumpalumpacus - September 21, 2014 at 7:57 pm
RE: I need some advice - by Lemonvariable72 - September 21, 2014 at 10:00 am
RE: I need some advice - by Little lunch - September 21, 2014 at 3:29 am
RE: I need some advice - by Drich - September 22, 2014 at 12:37 am
RE: I need some advice - by Darkstar - September 22, 2014 at 12:51 am
RE: I need some advice - by Lemonvariable72 - September 22, 2014 at 7:35 am
RE: I need some advice - by Drich - September 22, 2014 at 9:42 am
RE: I need some advice - by Lemonvariable72 - September 22, 2014 at 10:56 am
RE: I need some advice - by Drich - September 22, 2014 at 11:42 pm
RE: I need some advice - by Whateverist - September 22, 2014 at 1:39 am
RE: I need some advice - by SteelCurtain - September 22, 2014 at 10:25 am
RE: I need some advice - by Little lunch - September 22, 2014 at 1:16 pm
RE: I need some advice - by Thumpalumpacus - September 23, 2014 at 12:22 am
RE: I need some advice - by The Grand Nudger - September 23, 2014 at 12:30 am

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