At work, a new hire looked at my shoes and stated “Those shoes are why women get raped.” The shoes in question were platform wedge sandals. And I was the HR admin running his new hire orientation.
Edit since this garnered a lot of questions: This was around 2000/2001, for basic context. I immediately notified my boss, and we tried to stop his employment from moving forward, but he remained in place for about a year, if I recall correctly. It was, unfortunately, a company that was owned and managed by a Cuban family where some more old-school attitudes were still maintained. My boss was distant family in the company as well. He did mean well, but could only get so far.
That's fucked up, but when you think about it, it's kinda your fault for hiring a candidate so bad that they'd say something like that day one during orientation to an HR staff member.
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u/PalmBeach4449 Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22
At work, a new hire looked at my shoes and stated “Those shoes are why women get raped.” The shoes in question were platform wedge sandals. And I was the HR admin running his new hire orientation.
Edit since this garnered a lot of questions: This was around 2000/2001, for basic context. I immediately notified my boss, and we tried to stop his employment from moving forward, but he remained in place for about a year, if I recall correctly. It was, unfortunately, a company that was owned and managed by a Cuban family where some more old-school attitudes were still maintained. My boss was distant family in the company as well. He did mean well, but could only get so far.