Hello my name is Michelle Timberlake. I was as of 9-27-06 a black female and only black female truck driver for Roadway Express here in Meridian MS. I had suffered a lot of discrimination as well as sexual harassment and harassment. I filed a complaint with EEOC about 6 months ago on racial discrimination and harassment and sexual harassment. I later in March filed extra charges because a white male by the name of Victor Quintero decided to take all of his clothes off and sit in the passenger side of the sleeper truck that we were in and asked me to masturbate with him. I phoned a job steward by the name of Ray Larkin who told me to report it when I got in. I did and hell has broken loose.
First I was called a liar so I asked that Victor and I take a Polygraph test. Roadway would not do it. Roadway Express because they offered me $100,000.00 and they wanted me to resign and they tell my colleagues that I left do to family problems. I refused and was set up to get fired om 9-27-06.
This is already out in the public and in the news media I have permission from my attorney to make this even more public

Hello Michelle. First of all – I would not encourage or condone you mentioning the names of your assailants and other concerned parties in your question – This is a breach of the ethics of confidentiality and may cause trouble if they are reading what you have written. Second: These acts should be filed in an official statement to the Police and perhaps your attorneys for proper investigation.
However – You should not have to tolerate these kinds of harassment in the workplace and your complaints should be dealt with at the highest level. There is also the bribery of $100,000 – I can assume they offered this to make you "go away". you were right to refuse. Another thing in your favour may be any unfair dismissal legislation in your country’s workplace laws – You may be able to take your dismissal to court.

Take care.

$10,000,000.00 (Ten Million). In regards to the Isiah Thomas case.

One thing that is often forgotten in cases like this — the settlement is not only for the victim, but to punish the defendant. And it should serve as an example to others that are in the same position. This is a man worth a lot of money. If he had only been ordered to pay a few hundred thousand, he would not have meant much to him. Compare this to some of the environmental and drug company cases where much more money is awarded. It must impact the companies bottom line so that there is an incentive to comply (for them and all other companies).

Ok here’s my problem:
I have this friend at work that has said some stuff to me in a sexual way. I know it is sexual harassment. Here is my questions. 1. Can I sue him without suing the company? 2. Will he go to jail? 3. Can I still keep my job if I do sue him? 4. How much can I sue him for?

1. Sure, you can sue him, but he is less likely to have funds to cover a judgment in your favor than the company is. But you can’t sue the company unless you have provided documentation to the company that he has harassed you, and they did nothing to help you. 2. He will not go to jail. Sexual harassment is a civil wrong (tort), not a crime. Therefore it is not punishable by jail time or any other penal consequence. Wouldn’t be a horrible blasphemy of the First Amendment if we could actually go to jail for saying sexy things? 3. Sure, you might be able to keep your job, but don’t expect and comfy working atmosphere after that. More likely people will look at you as a troublemaker and be afraid of talking to you lest they get sued also. Sometimes when a person files a lawsuit that involves their place of work, one of the stipulations os resolving the lawsuit is that the employee must leave the job, but that is usually only when the company is sued. 4. Oh, can I tell you how much lawyers hate this question. It is very near the gathering of evidence and weighing of all variables that one can determine what a lawsuit is worth, not at the beginning where only the sketchiest of details have been revealed. Lawyers don’t have a pamphlet or booklet or anything that reads: "sexual harassment $50,000; racial harassment $60,000, punch in the eye $100,000."
Having answered all your questions in order, talking to your friend (well, you did call him that) and telling him his sexual comments are unwelcome might be a more productive response than counting your judgment.

If a sexual remark was made and then a sly racist joke was spoken by same person, can they be combined into the same category to get a person terminated from employment. Or are they considered separate offenses.

A sexual Harassment case and a discrimination case are two different offenses.

This is a rhetorical question I assume. I discriminate all the time, it is how I learned to think since I was born. I like bigger more comfortable cars, I don’t like dirty taxi’s. Girls I know don’t like short men. Discernment is the basis of our existence.

I discriminate on basis of race often, in England I preferred Indian doctors. They appear to study differently and remember more details from their training than white doctors. I studied radar with Indians, 5 men with no social life. We all graduated with record scores – the first score of it’s kind for years.

People discriminate for and against. I met many arabs in my travels, and they seemed offensive to me and arrogant. Perhaps they’re just different! I don’t know, I just know I don’t like them even before I meet them now.

I have some unreasonable predjudices – perhaps based on what I’ve seen in films, or from other external influences. Perhaps fairy tales had their part to play too. Certainly in predjudices I notice in my thinking about women, I have some examples from parents, my upbringing and environment, and from stories I heard.

There are too many reasons, but the basis for me is that if I eat a lemon and it tastes bitter, I wish to avoid repeating the experience. If I feel threatened by someone at work, I will try to subtly make myself appear to be more skilled than they are in some way, and encourage predjudice against these people.

When I’m aware of it, I try to avoid it by understanding people more. Sometimes I learn a lot from these experiences, though often I am simply left feeling disappointed by the fact that I often lose out when I fight my predjudices. Sometimes I embrace them, because they do a good job of protecting me.
Sometimes I dislike them because it gives other people an ‘unfair’ advantage over me based on their blue eyes, clean cut accent, old school tie and so on.

Fascinating criticism in other answers about people being ’selfish’ – because I thought that all motives

Excuse me, I now have to go and fly to Australia – land of the mullets – see my friend’s video at
www.youtube.com/zemullet

does homosexual mean being gay and heterosexual mean being straight ? or is it the other way round ?
since when was the word gay used to describe sexuality ?

homo is same sex sex
hetro is different sex sex

in my life time. but i forget when i first heard probably around the 70s.

I want to know how much percent is the chance of catching sexual diseases (AIDS etc.) for men when you wear a condom and have a sexual intercouse with a prostitute or woman who has a sexual disease ?

if the condom is used correctly you have a 98-99% Chance of not getting a STD.

My roommate was sexually harassed by a male student and his roommate. The male student was already expelled and was warned to stay off campus and cease contact. His roommate was involved indirectly in knowing what was going on but not stopping it and not preventing further harm to my roommate. The roommate faced alternative action in the judicial system to have some mediation.

So now my roommate applies to be a student congress rep, thinking it will help her heal and feel better. Then after announcing her consideration, the male roommate alternatively disciplined all of a sudden applies. She then withdraws her candidacy for the position appointment. I think this is unacceptable. Our administrators don’t seem to have brains to have a period where some folks can’t be involved in student activities. Not even giving victims time to heal seems unreal.

After discussing with the President and Secretary of the Student Congress, they suggested to write a resolution to change the rules, because we have no policy limiting who can serve in student congress. Other representatives that I sent it to help have said that because student discipline is confidential that students don’t have the right to receive information on discipline, which would prevent the student congress from enforcing it. My understanding is that FERPA regulations changed to allow more information to be shared in effect this Jan 2009, because of Virginia Tech and the presumption that information could not be shared, which would have or could have saved lives. Here, if someone is physically aggressive, or sexually harassing another person, having them lead all other organizations seems ridiculous.

Assuming our fantastic administrators just aren’t so fantastically exercising their responsibilities to minimize risks (which could be emphasized in their failures to fire RAs harassing women victims or threatening sexual assault or punishing them by mediation and non-recording of discipline but re-hiring them next year). This seems ridiculous to me and because the student congress has some authority and discretionary duties, who we put there should be subject to some ethical standard, in my opinion. Is there any administrator out there that has a good idea about how to deal with this? It seems these folks leading the university just aren’t the wisest.

Whereas, student leadership on campus is a privilege and an honor and STUDENT CONGRESS is no exception;

Whereas, STUDENT CONGRESS represents other student organizations and allocates fees and has greater powers and discretionary duties than regular organizations;

Whereas, the judicial system allows mediation and non-recording of offenses to help victims heal in alternative ways, but still can be disciplinary nonetheless;

Whereas, when perpetrators and others involved in perpetration of offenses can otherwise become student leaders and supervise or represent their victims can further trivialize prior incidents or disciplinary action;

Whereas, drug and alcohol offenses are not uncommon on college campuses and this resolution does not concern excluding or further penalizing on those grounds;

Whereas, this resolution also does not exclude from STUDENT CONGRESS candidates and leadership simply for being unsuccessfully accused of violent-based or harassment-based offenses, unless such action or remedies have been taken successfully in the University Judicial System;

Whereas, being suspended or expelled or having faced disciplinary charges from any school is a disqualifying factor that employers are allowed and usually do take into consideration as reflection of the candidate or their character;

Whereas, character in STUDENT CONGRESS leadership is highly important since trust is essential to meet constituents and engage in resolution of their issues;

Whereas, if a STUDENT CONGRESS Leader has physical aggression or other harassment-based issues, like sexual harassment or assault, we otherwise subject constituents to an aggressor or harasser;

Whereas, requiring special permission for violent-based or harassment-based discipline provides opportunity and time for agreement with the University and STUDENT CONGRESS before taking up a STUDENT CONGRESS leadership role;

Whereas, it is insensitive of STUDENT CONGRESS to subject victims to situations where they have to come to STUDENT CONGRESS and speak out against private situations where someone hurt them;

Whereas, when administrators don’t exert responsibility effectively, we also have authority independent of them over who we allow to serve and should articulate standards on discipline;

Whereas, STUDENT CONGRESS may not be a "job" but still involves substantial responsibility and interaction with people, and having leadership that has engaged in violent-based and harassment-based offenses with record of discipline or alternative discipline at University sets a bad precedent for the kind of leadership that we want to see and rew

As your administrator has told you, discipline records are confidential STILL. They cannot be revealed without consent of the person. You could require all candidates to sign a consent form allowing the Congress to investigate disciplinary records. Most school governments have this kind of form for grade verification, which is also confidential.

I have a pair of 3-way (8" woofer, 4" mid & tweeter) stereo speakers that I have to place on book shelves. Since they are too tall to set up vertically, I will have to lay them on their side. My question is when setting them up horizontally on the shelf, what is the best orientation: tweeters toward the outside or tweeters on the inside?

This is actually an age old question and the answer is…it probably doesn’t matter too much. I would experiment with the speakers trying it both ways. If you plan on sitting directly equal distance between the speakers, then "tweeters in" would probably give you a little more "high end" response. If you are not listening in one place then just have fun and experiment!

( Also please explain what are the differences between the Homosexual people and the Heterosexual ones )

even though this is probably a troll….i’m gonna answer.
homosexuals are just people that are attracted to their same sex.
man loving a man, woman loving a woman
they are not psychologically unhealthy in any way.
mental patients are people with psychological problems that have been put away because they are a danger either to themselves, or society and they cannot take care of themselves.
heterosexuals are people that are attracted to the opposite sex.
man loving a woman, woman loving a man