The Pitters' Place

I have been sitting in an area that was empty of people except for me. It's 30 cubicles and I sit in the back part of the area so for 4 years I've been all by myself which was awesome. Except, now my company had to go and start a new division and with it came 19 interns. They are all still in school, are between the ages of 19-23 and THEY ALL WEAR A FUCKING BOTTLE OF COLOGNE EVERY DAY!

I get a goddam headache every day because of it. And they are so fucking loud and talk sports and race cars and other stupid stuff like it's going out of style. God hates me.

Onto to more pleasant things, don't know if I've mentioned lately what a douche my boss has turned into? Since he turned 60 in January he's been on some kind of "getting old, hating life, must harass woman employee to compensate for being old douchebag". I mean, he really turned on the inappropriate behavior bullshit and I've had anxiety attacks solely because of it. He had me come in his office and close the door to tell me that we are "friends" and that is the only reason he feels comfortable being a sexist prick (<my words). When my dog died he hugged me which made me want to go take a long hot shower. When he comes to my desk he's always finding reasons to touch me whether it be to brush hair away from my face or constantly tapping my arm when talking to me. He has no respect for personal space and ALWAYS stands as close to me as possible. When he comes to my desk he puts his hand on the top of the cube wall and then fucking stands there flexing his bicep and looks from me to his arm the entire time to make sure I am noticing. I think this is the worse beacuse all it does is creep me the fuck out and makes me sick to my stomach. Once, a while ago I was getting really irritated with him because he's an idiot when it comes to computers and he grabbed my arm and tried to turn me as if to spank me. I pulled away of course and told him nicely not to ever do that again.

Well, for all the crap I've put myself under stressing about my boss putting me in this position and hating him for it...Monday he called me into his office to show him something and apparently he hasn't a clue what "tabs" are when on the internet. I kept telling him to go to the first tab and he just scrolled aimlessly over the screen. I knew he wanted me to have to lean over him and point to it but I wasn't doing it. I have had enough of his bullshit.

Anyways, he tried the whole grabbing my arm to turn me around to smack my ass and this time I made it very clear he fucked up. His office door was open so I wrenched my arm out of his hand and said very loudly "NO!, LET GO OF ME" and then "don't ever touch me like that again".

He hasn't talked to me since then and it's been beautiful! I may have changed the dynamic to douchebag boss treating employee like crap always finding issues but I will so take that over being sexually harassed. YAY for me!

Oh my God, what a creeper, I am so proud of you Next, we kill him and string him up as a warning, y/y?

Fuck that shit. If he grabs you again you should slap the shit out of him. Self defense, after all.

This is why the US needs unions. You could report that shit and have him fired.

Oh I likey Aels! But I don't think we should kill him. I think we should soak his (which i'm sure is already very tiny) wiener in cold water and then leave him naked tied to the flag pole.

Wait...never mind. I just vomited in my mouth. We should definitely stick to your plan instead.

Isn't there a way to complain about this?

Yes, there is. It involves making a complaint to Human Resources who will document the complaint and will "investigate the validity of the claim" and action will be taken either against him for sexual harassament or against me for false claims.

Sounds so simple.

It ain't. I work in a male dominated industry with crusty old engineers and sketchy salesmen who would completely doubt me and my situation and the risk is substantial that the atmosphere around me would become toxic. I can't afford to lose my job.

That doesn't mean I can't take little steps to avoid the harassment. He liked to send me Instant Messages that disgusted me (something about him in a banana hammock at one point ) so eventually I told him that all IM's were archived. That concerned him and he asked me to delete my archive and I said sure...but of course I didn't.

I know it's incredibly difficult to do, but have you strongly considered finding a new job? I mean, it's probably easier to just deal with the bullshit, but the whole situation sounds like a powder keg ready to blow.

I have but there's little out there that is even close to the same pay scale as my current salary. And I'm too stubborn to be pushed into running away when it's not my fault for any of it so I'm playing the fence doing little things here and there to protect myself while not tipping the balance to where the boss gets pissed and I end up paying for it.

I've been here almost 17 years with 11 of those years being in this particular division. Thing is I rarely encountered sexual harassment, it was all just plain sexism in that a woman can't possibly work in this field because they aren't smart enough etc...This is my first encounter with it and it's by someone I've reported too for 7 years now and he's always toed the line with inappropriate jokes and stuff but never crossed it until just recently so as stressful as it is, i'm sticking it out.

Gypsy-Vanner wrote: We should definitely stick to your plan instead.

Excellent. Meet me out back in ten minutes, and make sure you wear some sensible footwear. We've got a shallow grave to dig.

Right on.

I wonder if you can get a discount on a hitman to just castrate the fucker.

I know of a highly recommended lesbian assault team.

No go on the Lesbians...he'd probably get turned on during torture.

The pigs though...bloody him up a bit and toss him in with the pigs.