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Originally Posted by divine1966
That’s bizarre. I am a very touchy feely person (well I refrain during pandemics) but I cannot imagine randomly touching men at work.
I am not sure anything needs to “happen” to a woman who touched your shoulder. But you can let them know you don’t like it. Not because you want something bad happening to them but because you want them to stop.
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We had a training that was very expicit in saying you couldn't touch anyone. Then shortly after that the woman who was not my boss at that time put her hand on my shoulder and I told her that you can't do that anymore because it's considered sexual harassment. She laughed but didn't do it again. Until February when she did it again. Then last week she did it again. And she is my boss now. There are 3 other women who sometimes touch my arm or back. They are not my boss and they are not jerks so I don't complain about it.
At my last job my office mate was super flirtatious. After hours when I was doing accounting and we were alone she would give me back rubs. Sometimes she would purposely bump hips with me. One time at a food show I was trying an ice cream bar and she said she wanted a bite so she grabbed my hand, pulled it to her and took a bite of the ice cream and then gave it back to me. She was married so that made it easy for me to not try anything.