Sexual Harassment = Not Fun...

[zacloud]

Still wish I could remember names better dangit... I'm 99% sure it was Tim but since I couldn't be 100% sure I didn't push as much as I could have so I'll have to call the manager in the morning so they can make absolutely sure I got the name right

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[tychoflak]

What an arsehole.
It's one of those situations you probably would wish you could think clearly and then say something witty back at the fucker like "Actually it's a little small for my tastes." Seriously though. You did the right thing in reporting him. Naturally when he is confronted he will try and say it was all a joke and that you didn't seem to mind etc. Just stick to your guns. It is sexual harassment, and I know over here he could actually go to jail for what he did.
Don't let the fucker get you down.

[zacloud]

Thanks... I'm doing better now. Still not tip-top, though much of that may be the exhaustion of not having slept in over 24 hours and constantly working that whole time to try and get finished with my work which I just did. Managed to go back to that store to finish and everything, though I still felt uncomfortable. Even though I should never see Tim in there again; I'd called the manager and he said that the creep's been fired. I'd given a very detailed timeline of where I went and when, so they were able to track everything on the security camera footage and see I was being truthful in all details

[tychoflak]

Don't you dare feel guilty about him getting fired.
He could have chosen to do his job instead he went and did something illegal and harassed you. He's lucky he's only fired.

He's luckier still that I wasn't there to let him examine my knuckles up close and personal. I cannot stand men who disrespect women like that. It's nothing to do with sex in as much as it is everything to do with power. Why else would he go after the most frail seeming woman to do it?
Guess he didn't count on a strong mind inside that petite body.

You also have to wonder how many other women has he tried this on with as well. Pricks like this give us men a bad name.

[zacloud]

Heh, thanks a lot Tycho. *smiles* I really appreciate that. At least I know many exceptions to the "typical male" rule, so that helps. Still, guys like this just keep reinforcing instinctive paranoia sometimes. I won't pursue anything legal with him though; I'm getting over it, and it'd be more trouble than it's worth.

Besides, the whole durn public world's so full of sexual crap nowadays anyway I may as well try getting nearly all magazine companies, commercial-creators, song-writers, and music-video-directors, and banner-ad creators arrested for showing off explicit crap even in front of children. It's all just about as bad. ~_~ That'd be futile though. So what's one more drop in the bucket, eh? :/