Use your own best judgment at all times. The entire Nordstrom’s Department Stores policy manual I’m a member of a student association that conducts a annual conference (“academy”). During last year’s membership meeting, the organizers made the suggestion to introduce a code of conduct for the academy. Apparently, during the previous conference (now second to last), someone had ostensibly sexually harassed another person. Ostensibly, because despite questions the details were not shared. Only that one woman called one of the organizers after the conference and complained bitterly about being sexually harassed. No clear information what happened. Not the best situation to discuss policy, if the facts aren’t known. Or only kinda sorta one side of the story. But the call was emotional and motivational enough for the organizers to try to introduce a code of conduct. On the one hand, I can understand the desire to do something. After all, if you invest a lot of time into something to bring people together, the last thing you want is to hear is how this meeting has hurt somebody. And it’s good to want to protect people — even if the students are all adults. However, a code of conduct is [...]
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