Does this count as a hostile work environment:

The boss is an amateur photog and is using our building for an amateur photographer event soon. The last time he did it there were scantily clad models running around all over the building, coming in the office asking to use my "Internet" and stuff. The other photographers were trying to get me and another employee to move things around for them which is so not even close to what our jobs are, plus, this guy isn't our boss anyway.

We're a converted warehouse/office building/loft kind of place. While we have some artist people/businesses renting in the building, they do their art in their individual spaces--i.e. not my office.

It's really disruptive and on top of it, I have to look at half naked women who...Well, I don't know. But I do know that it feels kinda creepy even if it is technically on the up and up.

So. What are the odds I can sue the ever loving shit out of my boss? Because that would probably go a long way towards making up for it. :P

The scantily clad women running around your place of business seems over the line to me.

And does the boss own the company...cause if he doesn't I'm thinking whoever does would be highly pissed about him using company time and space for his own personal projects.

But I am highly pissed that he's using company space and time for personal projects and involving employees in assisting with it when 1. I'm totally offended by it and
2. It isn't my job to help facilitate his skanky hobbies.

(Lest you think I'm a prude, I've been involved with nude figure drawing classes and things like that in my lifetime, but this is just so, SO not that.)

probably because I am a dirty old man.

Apparently it's the hip new thing for your "sort." :D

a commercial where they take pictures of these college girls at partys and stuff. And get this, they go wild! Dang.

the guy who thought up GGW is a billionaire because of it. It seems to me that someone of my age group purchasing one of those DVDs would run the risk of seeing his daughters or their friends. That might be a little awkward.

I could see how it could be hostile to many...

maybe get some film on a hidden camera next time, as it seems almost too outrageous to be true.

complained about it. We're pretty "artsy" and casual in the building and I think that's his logic for why it's ok. Plus it's his building.

It really is irritating though.

but I'd much rather have done it from my house in my pj's.

and told him how uncomfortable it made you. Then if he still expected you to participate, you could document the situation.

As I understand it, if you don't take some steps to make management aware and give them the opportunity to resolve the problem then it's hard to make a case.

I'll have a polite little chat on Monday and with any luck that's all it will take.

:shrug:

nor do I want to take time out of my actual work to help out with my boss' hobby.

I've been in figure drawing classes and things like that before. No big deal. It's just that when I took this job nobody told me that sketchy photographers and their models, and being a personal assistant to lesiure activities would be part of my job. That's all.

So I'll see you all when I get home. :hi: