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jmad90
Mar 19, 2012, 12:54 AM
For starters, I have a co-worker who randomly hates me all of a sudden, and had a fellow co-worker lie to my boss and say that I was sexually harassing all of the "girls." This statement alone was a lie, come to find out, almost a month ago my boss called me into her office and asked me who have I sexually harassed? Thinking this was a joke, I responded "the entire theater" and laughed it off, she said no really? Who? I was dumbfounded. I had gotten a corporate complaint from another supervisor accusing me of sexually harassing her, by corporate I mean by the owner. She bypassed the corporate office and personally called him. I was wondering how I should go about this, I'm the only one she has called and complained about but she has had many problems with other employees as well. I
m pretty sure that the corporate office keeps records of all complaints.
Thank you in advance.

ScottGem
Mar 19, 2012, 03:54 AM
So was action taken against you over the complaint?

jmad90
Apr 2, 2012, 01:05 AM
There wasn't a formal complaint issued, because "she" didn't follow the guidelines in filing, but the owner of the company told my boss I needed to be moved from my position

ScottGem
Apr 2, 2012, 03:03 AM
That's called CYA. Even if nothing can be proven, if they don't take action, there is liability. You need to dot all your Is and cross all your Ts for a while and be very scrupulous about how you act with any other female office workers.

But since you have not been materially harmed, then filing a case will be expensive for no return.