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oyster  ·  2820 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bloomberg's Gretchen Carlson sexual harassment supercut

This shit pisses me off so much. I'm so incredibly lucky to be working on a team of entirely women because when you go into a job that is normally a stupid boys club this is the stuff you can expect to have to put up with. I once had a job interview for a greeter at a car dealership where the woman mainly talked about how the they weren't a "PC" workplace and the boys were just so funny hehehehe so I'll have to be good with that in order to be a good fit for the company. At least she remember to tack on oh but don't worry you can totally say something if they go to far as an afterthought. Something tells me her version of " to far" is very different from mine.





am_Unition  ·  2819 days ago  ·  link  ·  

When I was working the second year of an internship, my division hired on two new female interns. Both were attending rather prestigious universities and studying for STEM degrees. They left the intern cubicles where we all worked together and went on a coffee run, and were stopped by a long-time employee in the hallway. He asked what they were doing around those parts, as young females are exceedingly rare to see around. When they told him they were both working over the summer in an internship, he said "Huh, I didn't know secretaries had internships!". They politely corrected him, and then came and told me what happened. I facepalmed hard, and profusely apologized behalf of the dude.

It's largely a generational thing, at least in my experience. Don't get me wrong, there's still more than enough of a "boys' club" vibe in many younger male-dominated workplaces (Silicon Valley, UGH), but I see some progress. Never fast enough though, of course. Hang in there.

oyster  ·  2819 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh my that's cringey, I've only had one encounter like that when a trucker kept asking me where the guy was ( he meant the forklift driver) while I was standing there in a safety vest, and steel toe boots with keys in hand. He just looked stunned and went and smoked while I unloaded everything. I've definitely noticed it being generational as most of the younger men I know find it equally cringey when the old men creep on the 15 year olds at work.

snoodog  ·  2820 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I hate it when people get really upset about every little insensitive thing that's said. When people are passionate about their work stupid shit gets said and if there is someone super sensitive it really sucks to work with them

oyster  ·  2820 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Please tell me I'm confused, are you trying to say this stuff in the video is just part of what happens when guys are passionate about their work ? I'm fairly certain I'm confused.

snoodog  ·  2820 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Im just responding the the comment you made not the video.

oyster  ·  2820 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're kind of missing all of the context then. This woman spent the entire interview telling me I can expect to be harrassed at work pretty much constantly. The only requirement for the job was that I would put up with it well. The video is about sexual harassment in the workplace and that's not just something that happens when people are passionate about their jobs.