Weird possible harrassment claim
Jun. 1st, 2004 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckOK. You have a moving business called "Two Guys and a Truck."
You manage to put out a widely read ad with coupon for "Two Gays and a Truck." This was apparently a typo and not a deliberate mis-representation.
The coupon is being used by many customers and your employees feel that the people using the coupon think that they have in fact hired gay movers. They apparently make this assumption abundantly clear to the employees who come to do the moving.
None of your employees are openly gay. Your employees feel they must take jobs but are uncomfortable with the idea that the people they are doing the work for think they might be gay.
On top of that, when an employee felt the need on one job to actually let clients know that he wasn't gay, he reports that "The customers were then noticeably angry that the movers were not gay, as advertised."
Points raised:
1. Are your employees being harassed? By whom? Are you responsible?
2. Should you consider doing this on purpose in the future, if people are hiring your staff because they might be gay? Perhaps you should start a branch operation?
On a personal note to those in the DC metro area, we have used Two Guys and a Truck for three different moves. Their service has been excellent and their prices are very reasonable. I have no idea if our movers were gay.
You manage to put out a widely read ad with coupon for "Two Gays and a Truck." This was apparently a typo and not a deliberate mis-representation.
The coupon is being used by many customers and your employees feel that the people using the coupon think that they have in fact hired gay movers. They apparently make this assumption abundantly clear to the employees who come to do the moving.
None of your employees are openly gay. Your employees feel they must take jobs but are uncomfortable with the idea that the people they are doing the work for think they might be gay.
On top of that, when an employee felt the need on one job to actually let clients know that he wasn't gay, he reports that "The customers were then noticeably angry that the movers were not gay, as advertised."
Points raised:
1. Are your employees being harassed? By whom? Are you responsible?
2. Should you consider doing this on purpose in the future, if people are hiring your staff because they might be gay? Perhaps you should start a branch operation?
On a personal note to those in the DC metro area, we have used Two Guys and a Truck for three different moves. Their service has been excellent and their prices are very reasonable. I have no idea if our movers were gay.
