Nobody should be made to feel uncomfortable or harassed within their work environment, writes Ed Canning.

Please remember what you read here today after you’ve had a few drinks at your office holiday party. It might save you your job. First, just because office holiday parties take place after hours, it’s still considered to be in the context of your employment and your dirty dancing can lead to no paycheque. And before you start sending risque text messages to your colleagues who were at the party on your way home as you are sliding off your seat in the cab, think of Joe’s story.

Joe was the branch manager in a small company. When he arrived at the holiday party, he made a joke to somebody who commented that his hair was still wet. He explained that when a young female worker and her husband showed up to give him a lift to the party he had to rush out of the shower and was still a bit late. He knew he was going to be tardy and had rushed home and jumped in the shower. He joked that the female worker who picked him up was the youngest person to get his clothes off that fast in a long time. Apparently, he complimented her hair that night and allegedly touched it while doing so.

After dinner at a restaurant, they all went bowling. Joe was on the same team with this young female worker and her husband. When she was about to bowl, she commented that she didn’t think she could bowl at all. Her husband shouted that with a behind like hers she could do anything. Joe made the...

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