I was brought up in a Mill Town when the cotton mills were going strong. Sexual harrassment was rife, ask any young lad straight out of school what would happen if he forgot his manners with the weavers.
With regard to the 'tent incident', had she had the slightest bit of gumption about her, a suitable scathing remark about habout his prowess would have put a stop to that immediately. Whilst the incident should not have occurred after ten years in the army I am amazed that she was unable to make that particular squaddy the laughing stock of the group.
I could understand her shock and distress had she been a shy young lass but after ten years in a mainly male environment I would have thought she would be well beyond that stage.
Clingfilm on the toilet? That's been done many times before without people resorting to Industrial Tribunals. It always strikes me that people, male or female, who go running to tribunals demanding 'telephone numbers' are not looking for fairness and justice but are just after a 'free ride' for the rest of their lives.
Does nobody know how to extract revenge any longer or have we become a Nation of thin-skinned cry-babies and sneaks?
Animals I like, people I tolerate.
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