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Originally Posted by matthewb0051

During my last few years in the Army we began noticing the uptick in people complaining (a lot of SH) as well as people being far better trained about complaining.

My next to last assignment I had a female subordinate that complained to the deputy boss that I 'made her feel uncomfortable' and 'scared her'. That was sort of taken as SH. She even had the nerve to say that she 'was a hot chick in the Army and got hit on a lot'. She was not hot in the slightest.

Her problem with me was that I expected her to work and get her work handled in a relatively speedy manner. She on the other hand thought she was some independent operator and that I shouldn't be keeping tabs on what she was doing. Never mind that I too had a boss that I had to answer to and provide answers about her work that was or wasn't being accomplished.

Glad I'm retired from that ****

My dad was in the Navy, and in the mid 80s we were stationed in Japan, so we all watched AFRTS. At the time, there was 1 AFRTS channel. I remember the "commercials" were "OpSec," "Fraud, Waste, and Abuse," and "Sexual Harrassment." In the early 80s my parents were stationed in Rota, Spain, and I spent 2 summers with them, again, I think there was a single AFRTS TV channel and I think it was running the same commercials.

I'm sure that there was probably a ton of sexual harrassment in the early days, and it needed to stop. At the same time, I have no doubt that there are people that will use and abuse that sort of thing. By going to the training, you learn exactly how to exploit the system, the buzzwords to use, etc....

These days whether male or female, "hostile work environment" is a buzzword that will probably get your complaint sent to the top of the pile, just like complaining about racism, sexism, discrimination will also get you lots of attention. And I've seen plenty of people that were "low performers" that used or tried to use those buzzwords to keep their jobs.