A woman I worked with was going on holiday. She was doing a hand over on shift, she hugged me and said to look after myself.
It's not harassment and yes, it was purely platonic
I honestly dont know if you are being serious or not but there is a massive difference from what happened with you to what is being described in the OP.
Of course we need to know the context of the incident, such as was it playful banter between the two and so the act was expected to get shot down when he attempted it or was it him trying to genuinely force a kiss on her. Maybe she will come out and say 'he was just joking around and i playfully told him to fuck off' but it may come out that they dont have any sort of established relationship that would allow someone to go for a kiss for a laugh.
I dont know much about either person so i cant say for certain but im assuming that Diane doesnt have that sort of relationship with David and as such this would be harassment plain and simple.
Regardless of the truth, i find the outrage from some here about the fallout from him attempting this funny. When genuine acts of sexual harassment are brought up you always have a few that will try to defend the behaviour saying the person was just joking or being friendly or they do that themselves and no one complains or worst of all 'how are you meant to pick up women these days?! Damn PC culture'.
On the topic of downplaying sexual harassment, I know someone who recently was sexually harassed at work and they have had to deal with this sort of apologist shit. A colleague who she was friends with recently was clearly trying to push the relationship into something more (even though she is happily married) joked that "Maybe me and some friends will have to get you in a van and teach you a lesson", basically joking that him and his friends would kidnap and gang rape her.
After sitting on this for just over a week, not sure what to do she decided to speak to her manager about it for not only fear that one day he might actually do it but for other women on the team. The manager (a woman) tried to downplay it and then asked her to talk to him about her problems. She reluctantly agreed (to help the team out) and spoke to him and he apologised and said all the right words about how he iddnt mean it and would change how he spoke to people.
After this she spoke to a friend in HR who told her that he had also harassed her and then about a week later an agency temp quit and told the agency that he was sexually harassing her (after my friend spoke to him). Because of a third party getting involved the company was forced to bring the subject up to him, telling him that my friend had complained resulting in him playing the victim, crying and then clearly taking it out on my friend.
This caused my friends anxiety and pre-existing medical conditions to flare up badly and the manager then told her she was over reacting and he said worse to her and he didnt really mean it. When my friend tried to reiterate the effect it was having on her the manager said that she had a duty of care for all the staff which apparently meant going to lunch with him and telling my friend she was over reacting. My friend booked a doctors appointment and after hearing what was happening he immediately signed her off from work for 2 weeks.
