April is sex offence awareness month
Fire offenders, fire leaders that cover for them, and don’t hide the reason from employees that remain. Make examples of them succinctly and professionally.
We had a known offender for years, the whisper campaign was strong. He was finally encouraged to leave following “performance issues”. All that did was signal to remaining offenders that if they do a good enough job keeping it quiet, they won’t even be fired if they’re caught, just allowed to exit quietly. And knowing that guy and some of the men he worked for, they probably gave him recommendations for his next job.
We had a known offender for years, the whisper campaign was strong.
This used to confuse me as a young and naive woman. Why wouldn’t we put these assholes on blast?
I’m not so naive now, but we should shine light on this darkness quickly and frequently in work places. The main reason it continues is because others actively cover for the offender.
Yup.
I was assaulted at a legit job, but shrugged it off. Someone else had seen it happen and was outraged. They reported it, and about 6 months later he was “encouraged to find another job” but there was no urgency to it.
The men I worked with directly were absolutely livid, which was a pleasant surprise.
100% this. At my organization we had a similar situation but it was with a manager who was bullying various staff - like repeatedly making people cry in meetings and chastising them. It was pretty vicious. When they finally got moved on, management still sent out the generic “farewell, sorry to see this person go, contributed so much, good luck” mass email. Like screw off, that’s bullshit. If you want to have a positive culture you actually have to acknowledge when the shitty stuff happens.
Also had a team leader who assaulted one of his team in the workplace (disability residence) and wasn’t let go for months and probably not even for that incident. I didn’t know about that personally until well after the fact. So messed up. Don’t let employees/employers get away with this shit - if your organization shrugs it off report it to the cops.
For starters, employers themselves can stop sexual mistreatment of women.
Lead by example.
Maybe we should consider a system that isnt inherently hierarchical, hierarchies promote hierarchies thus as long as capitalism exists there will be patriarchy/racism/bigotry/xenophobia/etc.
Lots of employers make their employees wear a “unisex” (read: men’s) uniform T-shirt, they call it desexing and think it reduces harassment. Didn’t stop the managers from harassing their employees, didn’t stop corporate from transferring the problem instead of firing it.
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This is a women’s only space, so Im breaking the rules along with you, but this is not the way.
Thanks for standing up for us! Obviously don’t comment again but I’m leaving your comment up so that people know you had our back 🥰
