New Rules: Netflix prohibits staff from looking at each other longer than 5 seconds!

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Keywords here: "reportedly," and "stare."
 
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Pretty intense -- the solar eclipse gave you a second longer before blinding you for life!!

Can you imagine on resume or job application - reason for separation - I would think a future employer might not hire someone in that they would conclude that applicate might be a little "off"!

Let me see if I understand you stared for 6 seconds at a colleague and were let go ?

What sane person might not ponder ----ugh oh, I think applicant might have murdered a colleague or something!

Can you imagine after the interview when asked why the last applicant was not bought on --- he/she "says" they were terminated for staring at a colleague for 6 seconds -- yeh right!

Are they going to be hiring an individual for SS responsibility? A Stare Security type of position?

This kind of silliness often results in pondering how does someone even come up with such a nonsense. If I were in an argumentative mood I might ask why not 4 seconds? What about 8.5? Huh just answer me that!

World gone mad ..................

At Netflix no less!
 
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Oh my dawg. CARIIS, how do you find this stuff. Lol

Not really sure! I dont search for it! It seems to come my way! I think it is like when I see something inane I click most pass!

If when reading it results in a chuckle aloud its usually a winner ha!

I like laughing! My mother says the biggest gift anyone can give themselves is the ability to laugh at themselves- I think that is wise counsel!

She my little sister and I have a wicked sense of humor - older sister and father nah! Little sister and I laugh is actually similar!

I think there is a genetic wiring component to it it def is from our mother not our father - at all !!

Trust me -- in like grades 4-8 my teachers were not fond of my impulsive sense of humor and the "behavior" component, much to my fathers chagrin, of my report cards, heartily reflected that !!

Report card days, in the dining room, were not good days!!

S=Satisfactory
N= Not satisfactory

Sister SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Me NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN (at least I WAS consistent

!! Stuff just flies through the head -sounds silly but I often make myself laugh-- aloud --scary huh!!

Often it is just random - out of the blue (vacuuming or something) poof!

I love it here when you guys crack me up ! It just goes aloud "that is funny"!

Needed more and more and more with each passing day.....................
 
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Productivity will definitely fall off with everyone counting to five! Six seconds of looking is sexual assault? Wow!! And I still can remember the good ole days when safe sex meant mom and dad went out of town!!
 
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Is this serious? I mean, it sounds like my kids in the backseat of car on a long distance trip "MOM, He's staring at me!!!"...
 
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Is this serious? I mean, it sounds like my kids in the backseat of car on a long distance trip "MOM, He's staring at me!!!"...
I thought I was the only mother with kids who complained about that! Mom, she’s looking out my window!
 
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Netflix crew are 'banned from staring, flirting and hugging' under new rules

OH FOR FLIX SAKE NETFLIX has banned film crews from looking at anyone for over five seconds in barmy no-flirting rules.

Others include no asking for workpals’ phone numbers — and urging staff feeling pestered to yell: “Stop! Don’t do that again!”

The blitz follows the Harvey Weinstein and Me Too sex abuse storms. One of the first shows hit is sci-fi series Black Mirror, being shot in West London and on location.

An on-set runner said: “Everyone was spoken to about #MeToo.
 
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Productivity will definitely fall off with everyone counting to five! Six seconds of looking is sexual assault? Wow!! And I still can remember the good ole days when safe sex meant mom and dad went out of town!!

that is just funny and astute !!!!
 
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I thought I was the only mother with kids who complained about that! Mom, she’s looking out my window![/QUOT


Oh this is therapeutic thank you we need to laugh

horrid times are upon us
 
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It’s really kind of sad that our society even has to have a company have rules like this. I think it
shows just how sorry some people in our society have become.
 
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Nutty company.
 
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Netflix crew members mustn't flirt, give "lingering hugs" nor stare at anyone for "longer than five seconds," according to a series of updated sexual harassment policies obtained by the Sun.


Flirting and asking for a colleague's phone number are also reportedly forbidden. If an employee witnesses or experiences unwanted behavior, they must report it to management immediately, the report continued.



Netflix did not immediately return SFGATE's request for comment. In a statement to the Independent, the company said: "We're proud of the anti-harassment training we offer to our productions. We want every Netflix production to be a safe and respectful working environment. We believe the resources we offer empower people on our sets to speak up, and shouldn't be trivialized."
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I think this is just silly and unnecessary. And the statement by Netflix is laughable. How does this overly protective, ultra sensitive set of rules 'EMPOWER PEOPLE'? I think it does quite the opposite.

Are people so fragile these days that they cannot allow a coworker to look at them for more than 5 seconds? Are people so fragile that they cannot deal with a coworker potentially flirting or asking them to coffee?

Netflix says their anti-harassment training shouldn't be trivialized. But I think it is trivial in the way it is written. It outlaws minor nuisances and makes all working interactions shallow and stilted.

I have worked on many film shoots. Workers need to interact closely with each other, for long hours. It is ridiculous that they would not look at each other, or develop any feelings or connections with each other. What a joke.
 
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This new set of rules does nothing to circumvent the real sexual harassment issue---which is with people in authority, using leverage on the casting couch, etc. These rules have nothing to do with the Weinsteins of the Entertainment World.
 
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And “the sun”
Can you imagine if it were true how many lawsuits they would be inviting? How many people would be fired?
 
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Can you imagine if it were true how many lawsuits they would be inviting? How many people would be fired?

Yeah I just think this has been severely taken out of context. I mean, the sun is a tabloid (owned by Murdoch), and that’s where this all stemmed from. I’ve also read the “rules” are actually “guidelines”, and IMO not surprising that Netflix is trying to cover their asses after Kevin spacey.
 
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I just loved the 5 seconds! In a court of law"

Is the defense ready to call it 124 witness

yes

The court calls Dr. Gtockbert - Expert Counter

Three hours later with sophisticated editing equipment

We have had our equipment calibrated your honor the actual duration of the stare was 4.02157 secs

Case dismissed!
 
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SMH! Or they could just write a company policy of showing old-fashioned common courtesy towards co-workers. Could maybe take their Employee Manual down to a few pages....
 

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