Time to run

By friendlessatwork - 02/10/2012 18:27 - United States - Storrs Mansfield

Today, I got a coworker at my new job in trouble, because he kept harassing me and asking me out, even after I clearly told him I wasn't interested. Turns out he's very popular around here, and everyone now hates me for being a trouble-maker and not "taking a compliment." FML
I agree, your life sucks 27 845
You deserved it 3 725

Same thing different taste

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That sucks OP. The popular douches never take "no" very well.

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Sounds like you need to delete "team player" and "works well with others" off your résumé you big liar

Sounds like you need to take "team player" and "works well with others" off of your résumé you big liar

mariet_fml 23

Document everything your coworkers say or do to you. Better safe than sorry.

Some workplaces are like a high school.

Have sex with him that will Make everything ok

I really hope this is sarcasm. It's in poor taste, nonetheless.

That is complete BS! It's attitudes like that that perpetuate the standard that sexual harassment (especially toward women) is an acceptable "joke". It won't go away until we stop laughing about it. Which also sucks, because then people think you have no sense of humor, when really you just don't attribute humor to situations that are NOT funny. Also, even though everyone is siding with him, I'll bet at least one or two of your female coworkers are secretly wishing they'd had the guts to report him!

Something similar happened to me at my workplace. This one guy harasses me constantly at work. He shouts awful things across the room at me, he called me a **** in front of seven coworkers, and he badmouths me to our coworkers. I've reported the situation to both my area managers and the district manager, but all three of them have laughed it off and told me I need to "lighten up." There's no one higher I can go to, and he won't stop. I've heard stories in the past that people have been fired for much lesser harassment offenses, but somehow, this guy seems immune. So I understand your pain, OP. FYL.

mariet_fml 23

Do you have a labor board in your area that you can contact? Or even a local news station?

Contact the head of HR as well as every single member of the executive board, then sue everyone.

crazy4uboi 6

They are just being immature and stupid just ignore them.

mtricia 4

Same thing happened to me... I got labeled a problem employee, then fired for it after complaining about being harassed!

If you have to, go even higher up. I live in Canada, where we have provincial boards that we can go to if necessary. What's happening is sexual harrassment, and it's shitty that we live in a society where you are labelled as having "no sense of humor" because you stand up for yourself. Hop on the Internet and see what options you have for filing another report if need be.