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Walking onto the factory floor today I was feeling good. Couldn't say what it was, I was just in a happy mood, bouncing with optomism.
Got to the production line where I'd spend the morning, talking to the line boss person, and some hyperactive moose woman shouts 'come here you', grabs onto me, and procedes to 'grope' me (I'll not be going into more detail, thanks).
First few seconds I'm in shock. Then I try to get away, but she's clinging to me and following my efforts to walk away.
It was one of those moments when time seems to slow down, I couldn't say how long she was there. It felt like a long time, but I'd guess in real time maybe 10 seconds.
She let go and looked around at her sicker fans, laughing.
Then she did it again.
And as a parting shot she fired some innuendo/obscenity at me.
'F***. Jesus f****** christ'
That was all that went through my head in the following few minutes. Coupled with a horrible cheap, dirty, humiliated feeling.
Just thinking about it, my skin still crawls, I feel like crap.
We used to have a cat who was very timmid, always completely on edge. That's what I felt like every time she was within 10 feet of me today, hoping nothing would happen, furiously avoiding eye contact. All those other feelings coupled with fear and helplessness.
Yep, that bouncy optomism was pretty misplaced.
In the past whenever I've hear about (usually) women complaining about sexual harrassment in the work-place, I've always been sceptical about whether they may be exaggerating, overreacting, making more of the problem than there really is.
Never again.
I've experienced one 'incident', and as the physically stronger (etc) party. I'm sure my day has been nothing compared to what hunderds (thousands?) of people go through regularly.
Any victim of this kind of thing has my total sympathy from now on.
One day, one incident, I considered quitting. I would have done but for the fact i was due to finish in 2 weeks, and there's virtually no chance I'd have worked with the woman in question again. And I severely needed the £300 for the fortnight.
Anyone who can hold down a job through that kind of treatment, for any length of time, has my upmost respect.
Then I got home to find I've been laid off, effective immediately.
F***.
Got to the production line where I'd spend the morning, talking to the line boss person, and some hyperactive moose woman shouts 'come here you', grabs onto me, and procedes to 'grope' me (I'll not be going into more detail, thanks).
First few seconds I'm in shock. Then I try to get away, but she's clinging to me and following my efforts to walk away.
It was one of those moments when time seems to slow down, I couldn't say how long she was there. It felt like a long time, but I'd guess in real time maybe 10 seconds.
She let go and looked around at her sicker fans, laughing.
Then she did it again.
And as a parting shot she fired some innuendo/obscenity at me.
'F***. Jesus f****** christ'
That was all that went through my head in the following few minutes. Coupled with a horrible cheap, dirty, humiliated feeling.
Just thinking about it, my skin still crawls, I feel like crap.
We used to have a cat who was very timmid, always completely on edge. That's what I felt like every time she was within 10 feet of me today, hoping nothing would happen, furiously avoiding eye contact. All those other feelings coupled with fear and helplessness.
Yep, that bouncy optomism was pretty misplaced.
In the past whenever I've hear about (usually) women complaining about sexual harrassment in the work-place, I've always been sceptical about whether they may be exaggerating, overreacting, making more of the problem than there really is.
Never again.
I've experienced one 'incident', and as the physically stronger (etc) party. I'm sure my day has been nothing compared to what hunderds (thousands?) of people go through regularly.
Any victim of this kind of thing has my total sympathy from now on.
One day, one incident, I considered quitting. I would have done but for the fact i was due to finish in 2 weeks, and there's virtually no chance I'd have worked with the woman in question again. And I severely needed the £300 for the fortnight.
Anyone who can hold down a job through that kind of treatment, for any length of time, has my upmost respect.
Then I got home to find I've been laid off, effective immediately.
F***.
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"Be polite, calm and reasonable."
God I'm sick of having to be this, but I must.
God I'm sick of having to be this, but I must.
English is right, it's an offence. Illegal.
If you did that to a woman, you'd be sacked so quick it'd make your head spin.
Speak to company, explain situation and ask what their policy is. Dont start threatening anything, just calmly explain and ask what they propose to do.
A calm, polite query is better than some red-faced anger shouting.
If they say nothing, all you say is "Ok, so the official company line on sexual harassment is (repeat what they've said). And whom should I use as reference for this matter?"
Don't threaten, dont get angry.
Be polite, calm and reasonable.
That panics them a lot more than yelling.
Then go to Citizens Advice and see what's what.
If you did that to a woman, you'd be sacked so quick it'd make your head spin.
Speak to company, explain situation and ask what their policy is. Dont start threatening anything, just calmly explain and ask what they propose to do.
A calm, polite query is better than some red-faced anger shouting.
If they say nothing, all you say is "Ok, so the official company line on sexual harassment is (repeat what they've said). And whom should I use as reference for this matter?"
Don't threaten, dont get angry.
Be polite, calm and reasonable.
That panics them a lot more than yelling.
Then go to Citizens Advice and see what's what.
tigamilla wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> This may not seem appropriate.
>
> But was she hot?
>
> I was gonna ask the same but I spotted the "moose"
> referrence
Oh dear.
Bad luck dude.
> cookie monster wrote:
> This may not seem appropriate.
>
> But was she hot?
>
> I was gonna ask the same but I spotted the "moose"
> referrence
Oh dear.
Bad luck dude.
Unlucky dude
cookie monster wrote:
> This may not seem appropriate.
>
> But was she hot?
I was gonna ask the same but I spotted the "moose" referrence
> This may not seem appropriate.
>
> But was she hot?
I was gonna ask the same but I spotted the "moose" referrence
This may not seem appropriate.
But was she hot?
But was she hot?
Could be a blessing in disguise when you think about it, no more glue factory misery.
Jesus man, thats heavy.
You can get compensation for it, 'stress' , assault, etc If she did it as you say then others saw it happen. You don't work there any more so it's not like you have to face any of them ever again, and if you're unemployed then you have free time on your hands.
I'm no legal type person, that's more Light's thing, but do you have a citizen's advice bureau in your town/city, either that or the police. It really depends how seriously you take it and how far you want to take it. Put it this way, if you've been sacked, may as well spread the misery around and try take down an unpleasant biatch.
I'm no legal type person, that's more Light's thing, but do you have a citizen's advice bureau in your town/city, either that or the police. It really depends how seriously you take it and how far you want to take it. Put it this way, if you've been sacked, may as well spread the misery around and try take down an unpleasant biatch.
Or if you don’t want to go that far, just tell her boss and let him deal with it.
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