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I need help with this Scenario #2:
a summary of 450 words with a body and 1 - 2 references, please I needed this by Tuesday.
You are a middle-aged man who works in an office. A coworker whose desk is next to yours makes a habit of cornering you one-on-one and sharing his latest joke. Most of the jokes are aimed at women and have sexual overtones. Initially, you try to humor him but you are growing increasingly uncomfortable with this situation. You try to avoid him, but it is not working. You feel that you must say something to him or your supervisor. How do you respond?
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The situation described is quite common in offices where one or two co-workers are always bombarding the others with jokes and innuendos which are more often than not are s e x u a l in nature and about women.
In my personal situation this co-worker is about my age and thus feels the liberty to talk to me casually with loose talks. I am sitting just next to him and hence do not have the option to run away from him. Nor do I can afford to be rude and directly admonish him for his behavior. He is looking after the exports while I am taking care of marketing and therefore professionally we need each other's support. I have tried many times to ignore his blabbering by just shaking my head, nodding and smiling while continuing to do my work but this has not helped. He has not been deterred by my trying to ignore him and secondly I am not able to concentrate on my work either. The situation has become nearly intractable and am at a loss how to sort this out.
I therefore feel that it is pointless to talk to him or to his supervisor as firstly he is not going to change since this is his personality. He may go quiet for some time but that will affect our relations which is not feasible for me as we need each others support to fulfill our job responsibilities. The best way I found was to request HR Department to shift my seat to another corner, the moment it becomes available, on some pretext like feeling cold by sitting just below Air conditioner and that the Doctor has advised me to sit away from it. The other pretext I could use is that I need a corner space so that I can spread out my files and papers on the carpet below as my existing sitting place has little space for that. A corner place will also not disturb anyone either.
I feel this is the best and logical way for me to get rid of this pesky co-worker.
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