Harrassment On The Job
Q: If harrassment by email, etc, has happened by someone out of the country,
can a complaint be made that results in arrest or whatever upon that
person's entry into the country? An interesting point which Mike may be
able to inform us about, as he's said he will be in the UK in a few weeks
time.
A: But that's the way real abuse works, too. People interject words and phrases into what they say which they know will have meaning for the listener. And sometimes, they make it obvious. The very first evening of my job in Oxford, we went for a drink with the technical director, and a couple of other employees. The TD said in an "as-if" aside to one of the others, "Is this the bloke who's been on TV?" (he said it directly in front of me, and obviously meant mke to hear him saying it). The other person replied, "Yes, I think so". I think the subtext of what the TD said was "Why are they bothering with him? He's so insignificant, why would they possibly want to spend the resources going after him and putting all that expensive technology in his home, when there must be much better targets?". The Technical Director was given to sometimes disrespecting people, you see, and in my case he couldn't see the point of anyone expending money on harassing me