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To: mph who wrote (47963)	4/25/2006 12:26:23 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Hmmm.... Very interesting. Admittedly, I only knew a tiny bit about this case, so after reading what you linked, I'm torn. I can see multiple factors coming into play for both sides of this case. I'm long on assumption & hearsay but also short on hard facts or the requisite understanding of the applicable law(s). So for me there's a lot of 'well, on the one hand... then on the other hand...' going on in my mind. You brought up a couple of excellent points about what is not only tolerated, but accepted in the entertainment field, yet would be looked at in a totally different light in the workplace. That these two worlds collided the way it did in this case is a good thing. If nothing else, there could be a lot of interesting debate around the water cooler. I would say that if everything Lyle claimed was true, then a line was crossed when the "raucous" behavior went well beyond anything necessary for the "creative process", even for the sometimes bawdy subject matter on the TV show 'Friends'. I doubt that Lyle was told that almost anything goes was part of the "creative process". I also doubt that Lyle's employers ever seriously tried to accommodate her concerns. Whether or not the laws applied in this case were violated is another issue. << "I thought it might be interesting to this thread because it is an example of the difficulty of accommodating diverse interests." >> LOL! The folks at the "View" feel they are unlike anything else on SI. They alone accommodate diverse interests. It's the rest of us extremists who are intolerant. :-)