Quit or get laid..off?
October 15th 2006 06:20
I quit my job today! I need to vent, so you better believe I will find a way to spin this into magazine milk. The amount of sexual harassment at my ex-workplace is indescribable…why don't magazines write articles on how to deal with sexual harassment instead of what to wear when being harassed in the workplace. Team a day dress with a white-shirt underneath and a waste belt for the perfect work look that’s also weekend ready! …then wait for the "fancy-a-fuck" comment. Sexual harassment in the workplace stretches beyond the secretary in the 1980s that was forced to wear a see-though blouse as uniform (true story), it's still around and sometimes no more subtly. I was working a nine-hour days with no break, constantly screamed at for ridiculous reasons, belittled in front of other staff and customers…and today I quit because of sexual harassment. Whilst one feminist within me was saying take it like a man, the other was screaming you shouldn't have to put up with this as a woman…or man for that matter. The last straw was when I was called "good for nothing" to which someone replied "at least she looks nice" to which my boss replied "from the back" as he examined my bottom! I quit! This wasn't a one off, I could reel off a number of equally, if not more, severely inappropriate comments made to me like this…but that was the one that sent me packing. A person's confidence should not be destroyed by some misogynist pig that thinks he's being funny. Why did I stay for so long then? Well, like most people I needed the money, I enjoyed the job and made friends with some of the staff…I thought well this kind of stuff will happen wherever you go, deal with it and a certain amount of laziness crept in as whilst having many other things going on in my life, taking the time out of my "rest" time to try and find another job before I quit, simply wasn't appealing…WRONG! Okay, my reasoning was correct to me before…but lately I have begun to see my confidence pay the toll of unnecessary "oinks"! You don't need to deal with them, you need to deal with it…that's why I'm out, and suggesting some-one in the "beauty-spot", "fashion" or "gossip" section go out and write something that will help you be smart, not pretty!
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Comment by Justin
And for what it's worth; I admire your confidence to stand up and not take it anymore. That kind of bullshit cannot be allowed to continue. You did the right thing.
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