In the beginning of the movie Mr. Hart would refer to his employees that are mostly women "his girls" that would definitely be workplace harassment degrading the employees. Also he made his supervisor go out and buy a scarf for his wife. Making a supervisor go out and buy items for you personal interest is also harassment. Mr. Hart would also use vulgar language when he first met with the new employee. Mr. Harts secretary would dress slightly inappropriate.
Mr. Hart would be making inappropriate comments about Dolly Parton's appearance and the way she dressed. He also called her a dumb secretary at one point; he also gave her the scarf that he made his supervisor go out and buy. These women put up with it because they need a job. That is the only reason as to why they stay. The on the job training was also workplace harassment. When the employee was training the new hire on how to use to Xerox machine, Jane Fonda did not know how to properly work the machine ending in the machine going crazy and copying more papers than she can handle. That would be called lack of proper training and that is also considered workplace harassment. Being unable or not having the right skills in order to complete a task.
Threatening intimidating environment when Mr. Hart bribed his secretary into going to his home after work, if she did not comply he would fire her. There were other parts in the film as well when Mr. Hart gave the promotion to someone else instead of Violet and that someone else turned out to be a man and when she asked Mr. Hart why he hired him instead of Violet he stated that he hired him because a company wants a man and the people don't want to deal with a women when dealing with numbers as well.
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