By nevergiveinever - 01/07/2015 13:44 - United States - Emporium
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OP here, this is a long story but bare with me, lots of shit has gone down in the past week: First off, to those telling me to go to HR, here's the thing: my managers ARE HR. If they won't do anything about it, then we're screwed. Which absolutely sucks ass. Here's the full story: I work in an intricate metals factory, because that's really all my town has to offer, but manual labor a pays really well and I have bills to pay so I can't complain. And yes I will move eventually but I need to save up a few grand first. Our company recently got sold to another metal factory called Metalkraft and that factory's owners are now our owners as well, and there is normally at least one of them at our plant every day. Our managers are a married couple, which makes plenty of situations hard to figure out how to handle. Before this meeting, the husband manager had been touching me. At first it was like friendly like "welcome to the company" shoulder pats and him picking on me like the other employees..... And then it became legitimate touching of the crotch and boobs when nobody was around. When these new owners came in, I told them right away that he had been touching me inappropriately and I had found out that he has been doing to the other younger females as well. They nipped the problem right in the ass and he hasn't done it to me since. This past week, a coworker went to the owners with her own problem of harassment from the wife manager. If the stories are true, she had been yelling and screaming at this coworker about her job, when the only "problem" was this coworker was having trouble lifting some of the metal wire that comes in spools like thread that we use on our machines, and those things can get HEAVY. The wife manager claims that she didn't realize she was harassing this lady, and says that if she can't lift the wire herself and so her job herself that she does not need to have it. The managers swiftly took away the lady's office, took away her key to the front door, deducted her pay, and stuck her in the packing room with me and the rest of packing/shipping. That lady quit on Tuesday. And honestly, I don't think she really had a choice. So basically, our managers are telling us that we should feel comfortable enough to come to them with problems instead of the owners. But what they just showed us is "if you have a problem with us we will terminate your job position and make your life a living hell until you quit."
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What an ass
lovedbynoone
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Sounds typical of what goes on in my workplace too. Very frustrating!! Sorry, OP. That truly sucks.
Sounds about right !
Jwaye2
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That sucks OP. Unfortunately for me my manager is the one who harrasses us. Normally would just tell his boss the regional manager but we "dont have the authority" to talk to them. Every enquiry to head office or regional managers has to go though our branch manager.
Seriously? Aren't there laws stating there should always be neutral counselors or something available? (I'm not sure what the correct english word is, in Dutch it's 'vertrouwenspersoon'...)
You are protected under OSHA or a similarly effective state-run health and safety program. You absolutely have the right to go to his boss with a complaint, and you also have the rights to a safe and harassment-free workplace. Go to his boss and make your complaint. He can NOT legally stop you from doing so, and any attempt to do so -or punish you in any way for it- is illegal. "OSHA covers private sector employers and employees in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and other U.S. jurisdictions either directly through Federal OSHA or through an OSHA-approved state program. State-run health and safety programs must be at least as effective as the Federal OSHA program." "Workers have a right to a safe workplace. The law requires employers to provide their employees with safe and healthful workplaces. The OSHA law also prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for exercising their rights under the law (including the right to raise a health and safety concern or report an injury)."
Yeah, they're protected under federal OSHA ( Occupational Safety and Health Administration ) or by a state-run program that has the same effectiveness as OSHA. All workers are protected in some way by OSHA or the state program except for a self-employed person, immediate family members working on a family farm, and workplace hazards covered by another federal agency ( the Coast Guard, FAA, etc ).
That's terrible, I'm sorry OP! Definitely do report it to someone in a higher position. It's not okay to be harassed, ever. But especially not where you work and spend most of your time. Good luck!
There is a hotline for that.
r u in kindergarten ? last i checked ' several' is more than 1 so why dont u n ur colleagues dress that guy urself instead of crying to manager.
Are you eight? Who the heck types like that?
You don't gang up on a co-worker, even is it's jerk, because that could work out incredibly wrong. You've just given the co-worker an excuse to file a complaint with HR for bullying, I've seen that happen before. And if you talk to the co-worker alone, he can still do that, because he now has you without witnesses to collaborate on what you said to him. If you talk to a co-worker about a potentially awkward or unpleasant situation, you always make sure a manager or HR department knows about it first, to avoid putting yourself in a difficult position.
I'm guessing that if they type like a child, then they must think it's right - the immaturity of ganging up on their co-worker instead of going to the manager. They're probably a teenager who has never worked outside a McD's, if at all.
Lemme guess: OP is a male being sexually harassed by a female. And the boss is one of those dumbfucks that thinks that's somehow funny
wrll since that did not work u have 3 choices. 1) u can go yo HR and report what has been happening. 2) u can just up and quit. & 3) u can fight back
TJStarzZ
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Not trying to be a jerk but isn't that negligence? Like, you're being harassed by a fellow employee on yourr job, and a superior knows yet willingly does (or did) nothing about it. I'd take it to HR or sue if I were you, OP, and sorry this has happened to you, but I wish you the best!
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Next step: HR. Seriously though. Sexual harassment is so common and underreported. I've been sexually harassed and my manager witnessed and encouraged it. That psychotic idiot should have been fired, but I kept my mouth shut and suffered silently. Don't let that happen to you.
The irony