Time to call in the sexual harrassment panda
Work's pretty boring usually. Go in, do the work, go home. Hum drum stuff really. But today there was a little bit of drama to spice things up a bit.
There I was doing my work when Shaniqua and Latisha (two girls I work with) walked in to the room I was in. Shaniqua was crying. "Oh, oh" thought our intrepid hero (that'll be me) to himself, "this can't be good."
Latisha then asks me who she should speak to about a complaint against another member of staff. "Er, what kind of complaint?" I said, not particularly eagre to get involved. Unperterbed Latisha replied "Tyrone just felt up Shaniqua and we want to complain about it." Now, I like Tyrone, he's a nice guy, but I've seen him act inappropriately before and I wasn't about to cover for his sorry ass, so I said "Talk to Jamal." (our supervisor)
Off they trot to speak to Jamal and next thing I know Shaniqua's in Andre's office talking to him about it (Andre's the office manager).
So a little while later I go to the canteen for a break and Tyrone's there. Being a discrete kind of guy our intrepid hero (that'll be me again) decides not to broach the subject. Tyrone's not up for discrete today though. He starts effing and blinding and saying "That Shaniqua's a bitch, I didn't do anything, they're just bad people, out to get me, etc..."
Then Andre walks in and tells Tyrone to calm down and that people from the agency (we're temps you see) are on the way over to have a meeting about it and he should save his discussion for then. Tyrone then rants for a while longer but eventually calms down and we all go back to work.
Anyway, to end a boring story with an anti-climax, the people from the agency came over, spoke to Shaniqua and left. Didn't talk to Tyrone at all. Which I thought was a bit off. Anyway, I should know tomorrow if he's been sacked / reprimanded / anything else.
So, have any of you ever needed a visit from the sexual harrassment panda in your work place?
PS: The names of the people involved have been changed to protect the innocent.
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