construction sites.........love em or hate em?

[Sweats]

So, this just happened at work.......

 

We have a 25-year-old girl who just started this week in our office as a Project Coordinator and this morning she had to go out on the construction site to look at a few things. Well, it seems that some of the guys on site were hitting on her, asking her out for drinks, wanting to go back to her hotel and party with her, etc........she was visibly upset with this and told our boss about it.

The boss went on site and told the guys to pack up their stuff at 11am and start their weekend early......this happened at 8am.

 

I told him that he should have kicked them off site at 8am and not to ever come back and he said he needed them to stay till at least 11am for them to finish a few things first.

 

* So, by not kicking them off site immediately, he has no problem with what happened as long as he could make it work to his best advantage

 

That tells me that he doesn't know how to handle it, he doesn't care about it, or he is totally unprofessional........maybe a little of all three.

 

My opinion, let them know it's unacceptable and get them off site as quickly as possible.

 

So, i ask thee, oh message board warriors, who is in the wrong on this?

 

[UConn James]

I mean… are they just gonna be back on Monday?

Because if so, they just got a long weekend out of sexual harassment and that gal should maybe look into legal options / HR.

 

Are the guys like day laborers, tradesmen, union? Did the boss at the very least upbraid them?

[Simon]

If he didn't have a problem with it, he wouldn't have booted them at all.
He's got a responsibility to the client that he can't just abandon because the FNG was upset.

If you're upset about how it was handled, you're being self-righteous and are in the wrong.

[Sweats]

36 minutes ago, Simon said:

If he didn't have a problem with it, he wouldn't have booted them at all.
He's got a responsibility to the client that he can't just abandon because the FNG was upset.

If you're upset about how it was handled, you're being self-righteous and are in the wrong.

 

 

 

Okay, so full disclosure for this project........we are the client until building completion and then it gets handed over to the government (it's a government project on a military base).

Also, as a military/government project, they have full access and disclosure to everything that happens on the project. They have no say in the project but have access to everything about it.

* Would you want to hear that something like this happened upfront and know that it was dealt with accordingly?.......and at least words were said as a reprimand and addressed in a satisfactory manner?

* Or would you want to hear this after the fact and feel that nothing was done or very little concern about it?

 

If i was a client or potential future client, i would at least want to know and let myself decide the severity of it and not have to hear about it 2nd hand, where truths get distorted and misconstrued and legal issues could potentially happen where liability will be placed on "burden of proof" between he said/she said.

 

.........i'm fairly certain the government/military doesn't want their name on that.

 

[Simon]

5 minutes ago, Sweats said:

Would you want to hear that something like this happened upfront and know that it was dealt with accordingly?.......and at least words were said as a reprimand and addressed in a satisfactory manner?

 

I was under the impression that the boss gave everybody a world class ass-chewing before he sent them packing.

[Sweats]

6 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

I was under the impression that the boss gave everybody a world class ass-chewing before he sent them packing.

 

 

 

 

The boss said nothing, only for them to gather up their tools and leave at 11am........he didn't even mention why, so you can see how it was obviously mishandled.

[Simon]

1 minute ago, Sweats said:

 

 

 

 

The boss said nothing, only for them to gather up their tools and leave at 11am........he didn't even mention why, so you can see how it was obviously mishandled.

 

Then I retract my previous statement.

He done ***** up.

[Fleezoid]

I would have told them to spend the rest of the day in a gay bar, or they lose their jobs. 

[Sweats]

2 hours ago, UConn James said:

I mean… are they just gonna be back on Monday?

Because if so, they just got a long weekend out of sexual harassment and that gal should maybe look into legal options / HR.

 

Are the guys like day laborers, tradesmen, union? Did the boss at the very least upbraid them?

 

 

 

 

They will not be back on Monday........the boss just escorted them off site and they are done their work, which was why the boss gave them enough time to finish their work before he made them leave.

 

They are laborers, doing fire spraying on the fire rated beams and columns and they are the only company in the area who provides this service, so i do understand from the boss's point, however, i think he just opened the door for having himself in the middle of a liability issue.

 

[Sweats]

As an update......

 

The new girl Project Coordinator has said that she won't be making an issue out of the whole thing, just that she felt uncomfortable about the whole thing and that she didn't like that the workers knew she was staying temporarily in a hotel until she got settled in.

 

She just says that it freaked her out.

And i can kind of understand.......25 years old, working about 8 hours from home, doesn't know the area, doesn't know anybody, etc. and these scrub construction workers are hitting on her, asking her to go out and party with them, knowing she's staying alone at a hotel, etc.

 

Bad things, man.

[dpberr]

I see fault in two places.

 

One, employees need to understand it hasn't been cool to sexually harass in the American workplace since the 70s.  It can get you fired and your employer sued.  

 

Two, it's on the employer to provide the mandatorily attended, annual class on what sexual harassment is, and its consequences, so you can discipline anyone who doesn't get the message going forward.   

 

 

[Just Jack]

I've been on plenty of construction sites.  Some are all professional, and some are "frat party" style.  It all comes down the the general contractor and how they run their site.  

[Sweats]

46 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

I've been on plenty of construction sites.  Some are all professional, and some are "frat party" style.  It all comes down the the general contractor and how they run their site.  

 

 

 

I agree.

Our site for the most part is very professional; however, we have a few work groups where it's like the inmates are running the asylum, and they just don't care about action vs. consequences.