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MadCow4now
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What is the name of your state? New Jersey
I am a manager in a branch office of a large corporation. A young lady who works as an assistant recently made a charge of harassasment against me. I am a photographer in a previous career and have maintained that as a vocation for about 25 years. I am known to sometimes have camera in my possession for a variety of occassions. I have taken pictures in the office, at company events such as luncheons, seminars, meetings, etc. During one day this young lady stated she had spilled coffee in her office cube and during her lunch time she went home and brought back a steam cleaning machine. Now although I thought this was unusual I let it go as 'quirky' and not problematic. I was taking some pictures of some coworkers later that day and spontaneously took a picture of her cleaning. She was down on the floor cleaning the walls of her office cube. The day passed without incident and I probably deleted this digital picture because I no longer have it. Two months later this young lady was written up for insubordination, charged by myself, for failure to perform a job task & inappropriate language to a manager. Others who witnessed this occurance were asked to write their observations down and each one of them agreed that she was out of line. When she was called in for the formal counseling session with her manager, myself and my manager she threatened us with' ..if you don't tear that up I will file a grievence against all of you..." and " ...you don't want to go toe to toe with me...". Now she is filing a complaint with our HR department stating that I 'took a picture of her ASS'. Although the decision of our HR department is days away a 'leak' of information has indicated that I will be punished for this picture. I find this very disturbing because there was no intent or malice on my part. The picture was never shown to any person, never printed, published or posted. It was deleted and does not exist. She was facing away from me at that time so even she did not directly witness this taking of the picture. Is a picture a 'picture' if it has never been seen? Am I at risk here?
I am a manager in a branch office of a large corporation. A young lady who works as an assistant recently made a charge of harassasment against me. I am a photographer in a previous career and have maintained that as a vocation for about 25 years. I am known to sometimes have camera in my possession for a variety of occassions. I have taken pictures in the office, at company events such as luncheons, seminars, meetings, etc. During one day this young lady stated she had spilled coffee in her office cube and during her lunch time she went home and brought back a steam cleaning machine. Now although I thought this was unusual I let it go as 'quirky' and not problematic. I was taking some pictures of some coworkers later that day and spontaneously took a picture of her cleaning. She was down on the floor cleaning the walls of her office cube. The day passed without incident and I probably deleted this digital picture because I no longer have it. Two months later this young lady was written up for insubordination, charged by myself, for failure to perform a job task & inappropriate language to a manager. Others who witnessed this occurance were asked to write their observations down and each one of them agreed that she was out of line. When she was called in for the formal counseling session with her manager, myself and my manager she threatened us with' ..if you don't tear that up I will file a grievence against all of you..." and " ...you don't want to go toe to toe with me...". Now she is filing a complaint with our HR department stating that I 'took a picture of her ASS'. Although the decision of our HR department is days away a 'leak' of information has indicated that I will be punished for this picture. I find this very disturbing because there was no intent or malice on my part. The picture was never shown to any person, never printed, published or posted. It was deleted and does not exist. She was facing away from me at that time so even she did not directly witness this taking of the picture. Is a picture a 'picture' if it has never been seen? Am I at risk here?