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By Jon Hyman
Jun. 19, 2013
An employee who posed in Playgirl magazine is suing his former employer for sexual harassment, reports ABC News.
18 years ago, Daniel Sawka posed as a nude lumberjack in Playgirl. Sawka alleges that when his co-workers discovered the pictures online, they began teasing him with chants of “Timber!” According to Sawka’s lawsuit [pdf], the harassment included jokes about “his genitals, and a comment about what homosexual men viewing the photos … would be doing while viewing the photos.” Sawka also claims that his co-workers downloaded or viewed the photos during work hours and on work computers.
The lessons here are two-fold:
Also, this story gives me great excuse to share this Monty Python clip.
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