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I'm really hoping that the project will
wrap up by this quarter so we can...

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Ah...

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That is an angry text.
Who are you doing?

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Telling him...
"leave me alone loser".

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Who? What...
what's he doing?

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Look what he sent me?

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Oh... gross!
I know!

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I don't need to see his junk!
No...

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Ah...
See!

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"I love it when you talk dirty to me?"
This guy needs help!

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I have NO idea how
we got to this point...

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I mean, we've worked on
several projects together,

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so some joking around and even
some harmless flirting has happened...

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I mean lots of people do that.

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But this time...

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he's crossed the line...

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and he thinks it's funny.

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I don't!

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Joking can make the workplace fun,
but it is also an area

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that can easily cross the line from being
inappropriate to being illegal.

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In this case, the two co-workers
have joked with each other in the past

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and it sounds like each of them
welcomed the humor -

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for a while.

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At some point that stopped
for the female,

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but the male co-worker has kept it up
and has taken the joking too far.

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People who work together sometimes
engage in 'harmless flirting'.

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As long as that behavior is welcome
for those who are flirting, and...

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those who are around to see it,
it isn't sexual harassment.

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When someone changes
their mind, however

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the welcomeness ends,
and it's time to stop.

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Sending a picture of genitalia

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or other private body parts
is not 'harmless flirting.'

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It's clearly not OK,

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and her male co-worker is missing
that very clear message.

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She needs help with the situation because
he is not taking her protests seriously.

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Reporting the problem to
a manager or HR is in order.