Professional or general jealousy is a behaviour exhibited by a fellow employee, a group of employees, or students towards the visible success of another employee or a fellow student leader. Envy is just part of the student population or employee terrorism, usually displayed by unscrupulous students or employees, and it is also characterised by resentment and/or natural hatred.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines sexual harassment as the unwanted sexual advances, or requests of sexual favours and other miscellaneous behaviours that may include spoken and physical actions that create a hostile or unbearable university life. Sexual harassment guidelines have been formulated to protect individuals from hurtful and unwarranted sexual conduct among employees.
Be as it may, many vengeful and unscrupulous students or fellow employees have turned these guidelines into a weapon of resentment, envy, and/or jealousy against students or employees who work hard and seem to achieve better results than others. Jealousy may sometimes stem from the clear fact that the student or employee also achieves more in their personal development. It may also be that the student or employee is well-liked by the university community, and jealous students and employees feel dominated by the more achieving student leader or employee. The jealous students or employees may just want to destroy a successful student leader or employee, to gain leverage on the student or employee by reducing the trust bestowed on him by the employer or fellow employees and students, to gain leverage in solving existing disputes, to demoralise the employee or the power the student leader or employee holds in driving change or the direction of the university. It may also be to destroy the student leader’s or employee’s chances of gaining traction and career growth at the university, such as getting a promotion or getting into the nerve of their enemies.
The jealous students or employees want to damage the social standing, reputation of their fellow students or employees for nefarious reasons, kill the career of the student leader or employee and inflict emotional terrorism to create distress, anxiety, depression, and the likelihood of suicide.
The character of weaponisation of sexual harassment guidelines is as follows:
- Personal vendetta.
- Professional jealousy.
- Power play and struggles.
- The exploitation of the university culture of taking sexual harassment seriously to their unscrupulous advantage.
CONCLUSSION
Organisations or companies must create a balanced university life where genuine cases of sexual harassment are taken seriously and ensure that the weaponisation of the sexual harassment guidelines is dealt with seriously to protect everyone at universities. The following can serve as ways of managing and protecting everyone from the dynamics of sexual harassment, real and fake harassment:
- Education and awareness campaigns.
- Sexual Harassment guidelines ambassadors.
- The protection of the accused.
- Stressing legal and fair investigation guidelines.
- Barring of nocturnal investigations by jealous students or employees.
- Punishment towards fake sexual harassment cases.
- Allow for the recourse of the terrorised student leaders or employees against sexual harassment terrorists.
Lastly, the sexual harassment terrorists are evil students or employees, closer to the devil worshippers. There is no better word to define these evil predators and terrorists. They are undermining the good work that South Africa is fighting so hard to defeat. They are unpatriotic fellows in our country, and they deserve to be charged with treason.
THE BALANCE TO PROTECT THE ACCUSED AND THE ACCUSER IS PIVOTAL.
