Workplace Letter: 'Girl, Your Boobs Are Looking Spectacular These Days'

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There are just some things you're not supposed to talk to your female co-workers about. For nearly four years. Against their will.

​An office worker who liked big boobs and he could not lie -- and the government department that allegedly allowed him to explicitly inform a female colleague of this, for years -- are on the receiving end of a most indignant lawsuit.

In a "Jane Doe" case, an employee of the California Department of Industrial Relations is suing former co-worker "John Smith" and the state in San Francisco court based on claims of three-and-a-half years of astoundingly lascivious spoken and written forms of harassment which higher-ups purportedly did not lift a finger to curtail. Among the correspondences "Doe" claims "Smith" sent her way:

[E]verytime I pass you by I get a very large bulge in my pants ... One time I had the great fortune of catching you bending over. I have to tell you, you have the pretties (sic) white breasts. They were just hanging there. My fantasy with you would be to rub some edible Cherry oil all over your beautiful white naked body and lick it off. You would be like the best candy and I am sure you would taste so good."

One supposes that's not the sort of "Industrial Relations" these state employees are paid to deal with. But there's more: 

• A typed letter left in the plaintiff's private mailbox allegedly from the defendant read, "[G]irl, your boobs are looking spectacular these days. Don't knowwhwhat (sic) you are doing but girl, you look ggod. (sic). You go girl."

• "Smith" left "Doe" a box of chocolates and a birthday card reading, "whatever your age, you are a very attractive young lady. I am sure you have one happy mirror at home ... You always smell so nice."

• Another typed note, this time in Doe's desk drawer: "[W]ish we could be Lesbians for a day. Youu (sic) get me wet."

Totally inappropriate. Totally.

​And so on. Throughout the three-and-a-half years of alleged harassment, Doe complained to her higher-ups -- whom she claimed did nothing. After California Highway Patrol officers analyzed the type-written notes and the typewriter ribbon in Smith's office -- and determined they were a match -- the higher-ups did not act. When CHP officers installed a hidden camera that caught Smith placing a letter into Doe's mailbox and Doe receiving it -- she claims they did not act. In addition to the unsigned letters, Smith was allegedly barraging Doe with sexual conversations and e-mails: Pictures of a woman in a chocolate dress ("Your dream dress"); compliments on how nice she smelled; invitations to open a chocolate shop together; etc. This combination did not result in any top-down action, the suit claims.

After purportedly catching Smith on video placing another note in Doe's message box, he was finally interviewed by Department of Industrial Relations bosses -- after 42 months of alleged harassment, levels the suit. Doe contends that Smith admitted to higher-ups most of the aforementioned incidents; he was subsequently allowed to resign his post. 

Far too little and far, far too late, Doe charges. She used up all of her sick and personal time avoiding Smith and is still on leave and "unable to return to work at this time." Her suit is for sexual harassment and failure to take appropriate and corrective action; the state has issued a "general denial" of the plaintiff's claims.

No number is cited, but here's guessing she wants enough money to open up a chocolate shop without Smith's contributions.  

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