Sexual Innuendos-How to Stop!! 11

[tuggertoo]

Help. Our newly hired 60 year old male EE, married w/2 kids , 30 yrs. experience,upper level management and a self proclaimed "good" christian, has revealed a side of his personality undetected during his initial interview. He is, in my opinion, using language that is borderline harassment with our firm's female employees. Last week one of our male designers advised me that "trouble" might be brewing due to Mr. EE's recent comments to employees. Specifically, "Gee, you have crumbs on your blouse-what lucky guy were you rubbing up against to get those?", "I'm a double scorpio-under loved, under appreciated, over stressed and over sexed" and in front of clients when our secretary was taking off her jacket, "Oh, what else is coming off? I think I'll stick around for that". Combine this with our 24 year old female EIT, unmarried with a 1 year old child being asked, "What were your measurements when you delivered the baby?", "What are your measurements now?".

I've already met with the women and advised them that I am taking action and they are to report anything that makes them uncomfortable. Our lead engineer and principle talked directly with Mr. EE who seemed astonished that he might have done anything wrong. Last Friday in a manager's meeting I addressed the topic and gave exact examples of the inappropriate comments-Mr. EE sitting to my immediate left. Our principle engineer even talked about our senior engineers being mentors to the younger EIT's. We are not out of the meeting 5 minutes (no kidding) when Mr. EE spots my daughter-in-law (with 4 year old grand daughter in tow) and starts in on his over sexed comments!

What is the next step? Can he really be that ignorant? This is embarrassing not to mention inappropriate. No offense, but he is originally from Arkansas via Texas. Is this typical red-neck mentality? What do I do to wake him up?

 

[DRC1]

Firing people today can be tricky. Before firing this guy for cause you should consult corperate consul to be sure it is done properly. Things are often said at dissmisal to soften the blow that come back to haunt you.
Since this behavior does not fit his profile, it may very well be an early sign of dimentia, or the symptom of some other problem. Unfortunately, these problems mayt not get better with time.