I am new to the company and brand. I was in a meeting where a senior person a director was talking about personal trip they took to see a singer and talked about their body and showed pictures of the performers body in a meeting. Is this ok? Is this common?
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Very common
You’ll fit in quite well at the new Nike.
And people wonder why Nike is going down the tubes.
@b7 don’t even waste your time speaking up! Or at a minimum do it anonymously! Otherwise you will have a target on your back. I can promise you that! HR doesn’t care about you. They will make it about you.
@OP at Nike, this used to be very normal behavior. Over the past few years this behavior is frowned upon. If you have read the posts here, people are dying to get back to those halcyon days (and stock price).
So bottom line, there is nothing to complain.
It is not appropriate and Speak Up should be filed. This is no tolerance for this behavior and it will be investigated and hopefully the Director gets terminated!
@b5 good advice.
It is not okay in a professional work environment but I would advise you to drop it. HR is not going to do anything (in fact they have a long and we’ll know history of covering for these types of leaders) and it’ll just put a target on your back for retaliation, a PIP or RIF.
I would quietly look for another job within or outside the company, if you cannot work for this individual and it becomes a common occurrence.
@b3 what is CYA? I didn’t say anything in the meeting. Nobody did because I assume we were all scared. They said “I should stop…”
I did not include gender of the director because it should not matter.
Since you already said something in the meeting, I would file something to CYA. That protects you from retaliation.
I wouldn’t say this is “normal” anymore - it used to be much more. Good job speaking up. It’s not a business appropriate topic.
OP here
Not a joke. It was uncomfortable, still is. Most senior person in the meeting was doing this. The images were not nsfw but it all felt inappropriate and lusty and way off topic. Definitely did not move the meeting forward. Is this acceptable? Commonplace? Drop it and move on?
@aw incorrect it was not Benson
It was a female leader referring to Benson Boone ..
@aa all these misogynists need to go.
They prefaced by saying they had shown the pictures to another director and that director agreed in the sentiment towards the images. Then showed the group. Then said I should stop before hr gets involved.
@a5 the director has been bragging about the trip and how se-y the performance and performer was. In the meeting they said they texted images to another senior leadership member and how they were impressed by the images and showed the group. The people in the room were all subordinates of the directors sharing the story and images
@a5 the performer’s. It was what I consider in a se-----y charged way
The director showed pictures of their own body or the performer’s?