Anonymouswoman
New member
California
I work for a prominent state organization. This has always been and is very much still a boys club. Men have almost all the authority positions in this organization and all of them in my individual workplace.
I have been told that I and everyone else in my job position (mostly women) are "only" (my position title) and therefor cannot do basic tasks without supervision. We are all treated like third class citizens and are not shown the preferential treatment that the "supervisors" give each other.
No, according to the job descriptions, these men are not our supervisors, but our actual supervisor has delegated this job to these 15 men though (there are only 6 of us in the position I am working).
I've not eaten any meat for almost 30 years. For months now, one of these men in particular will not stop with the comments (he would call them jokes and teasing, I'm sure) about my being a vegetarian. Whenever there is meat cooked for the workplace, he offers some to me, he comments specifically to me about how delicious it is or holds out a plateful to me and shows it to me. He tells me I should just pick the meat out of pizza, or the meals prepared or I should just drink the broth on soups. He won't stop. I've never laughed or smiled or done anything to encourage this or to let him know that I think what he is doing is funny. At the most, when I'm not ignoring his comments, I explain (again) that eating any of these things will make me sick.
I've spoken to a few of the other "supervisors" who are nicer, about this problem with no results.
This man in particular likes to throw his authority around. My fear of confronting him directly to tell him to just knock it off (politely of course), is that I will suffer retribution of some kind.
I am represented by a different union than these guys are in.
Is this actionable behavior? I'm so frustrated. I just want to work and do my job.
- Frustrated
I work for a prominent state organization. This has always been and is very much still a boys club. Men have almost all the authority positions in this organization and all of them in my individual workplace.
I have been told that I and everyone else in my job position (mostly women) are "only" (my position title) and therefor cannot do basic tasks without supervision. We are all treated like third class citizens and are not shown the preferential treatment that the "supervisors" give each other.
No, according to the job descriptions, these men are not our supervisors, but our actual supervisor has delegated this job to these 15 men though (there are only 6 of us in the position I am working).
I've not eaten any meat for almost 30 years. For months now, one of these men in particular will not stop with the comments (he would call them jokes and teasing, I'm sure) about my being a vegetarian. Whenever there is meat cooked for the workplace, he offers some to me, he comments specifically to me about how delicious it is or holds out a plateful to me and shows it to me. He tells me I should just pick the meat out of pizza, or the meals prepared or I should just drink the broth on soups. He won't stop. I've never laughed or smiled or done anything to encourage this or to let him know that I think what he is doing is funny. At the most, when I'm not ignoring his comments, I explain (again) that eating any of these things will make me sick.
I've spoken to a few of the other "supervisors" who are nicer, about this problem with no results.
This man in particular likes to throw his authority around. My fear of confronting him directly to tell him to just knock it off (politely of course), is that I will suffer retribution of some kind.
I am represented by a different union than these guys are in.
Is this actionable behavior? I'm so frustrated. I just want to work and do my job.
- Frustrated