And if so, how did ya handle it?

Was just thinkin of a past experience and was wonderin.

I've been majorly sexually harrassed at work before, but I just blew it off...tried avoiding the woman whenever possible, but never felt uncomfortable to the point of wanting to quit...

I get harrassed to work by my boss all the time!

Byron said:

So long as it didn't make you too uncomfortable

bkw said:

If I remember right I actually posted about this when it happened. When I first started my current position (about 9 months ago?) my boss would stare at my chest all of the time, not even realizing he was doing it. He eventually stopped. It was only a minor annoyance and I like him in all other respects, so I let it slide.

Yeah, in working with the public I've dealt with a lot of harassment, but most of it I learned to deflect easily enough, and in ways that turned it around on the offending party, however so subtly and gently. The worst, however, was being stuck in an elevator at my job with a leather fetish group that was renting space at our building. I felt like a gazelle in a nature documentary.. .

CarrieMpls said:

that reminds me of my work placement manager. I was working at this educational institute as an editor...and i was learning some short cuts on word which he was showing me while my supervisor was away on a trip to the US. Anyway, everytime i made a slip up he'd creepily say 'it's because I'M here...' it was gross! I was always wary of being around him when the secretary wasn't there. He was pretty creepy. But that wasn't really a harrassment case...just a creepy case

lilmissmissy said:

when i was in high school i worked with this guy who was waaaay creepy. He was always making sexual references that made my 18 year old self very uncomfortable. I ended up mentioning something to my boss and they stopped. I think he just didn't have good boundaries.

So how about...harrasment from da same sex? Had one of those?

missHoneyHotchillie said:

Shutup.

missHoneyHotchillie said:

See my post above.

I've experienced this a few times and I just let it alone. Eventually it stopped when they didn't get any reaction.

all the time...but i really dont think of it as harrassment anymore. I have a big butt and a small frame.....i get teased because of it. Im used to it. I just blow it off.im always getting lots of stares

Anxiety said:

Scary

i was harrassed at work but it came from outside the company.

a former boyfriend of a former flatmate once called my office when i was off, purporting to be from a child watch group and accused me of being a convicted child sex offender. apparently he wouldn't give his name and hung up. the next day i was questioned about it by my general manager. i was in shocked i tell you! i told him i had no idea what was going on. i almost strated to cry. i was shaking. at the time i didn't realize it was this guy (even tho i should have cuz he caused my former flatmate a lot grief). it still did not dawn on me it was him when my landlady called me up out of the blue and asked me if social services had stopped by the flat. apparently a call was made to them by someone about my former flatmate and the kid she had. for some reason, it didn't click.
anyway, a few months later i heard from him again and he starting shit up again and i realized it was him. he showed up at my front door ready to beat me up. eventually i called the police on him and since then i have never heard from him.

people are sick.

Milty said:

Dat's pretty hardcore

Ottica said:

Ignorin it would be da best way although i've seen some hardcore cases where stuff needs to be done

Yes, I don't put up with shit anymore...

About two years ago i worked at a homeware store...overtime my manager used to call me a bitch and even smack me when i'd made much more than she did. She picked on me alllll da tiimez and even instigated me (and i was a casual) when i couldn't do a shift!!! She was shocking, but unfortunately she got rid of me before the company got rid of her!!! ANyways dat was crap, i like where i'm at now, it's heeeeeaps better!!!! If i ran into her now...phwoaaaaar there'd be trouble

Dats my story.

she's a 'her' not a 'here' spelling edit.
[This message was edited Thu Mar 11 0:54:25 2004 by lilmissmissy]

lilmissmissy said:

make more than the manager

do you mean money ?

I'm usually the one doing the harrassing.