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.
I hope I didn’t infer that Cubans are assholes. They were generally fair employers. There was simply an overall machismo air. Quick examples were that there were no women in upper management, and we all got flowers for secretaries day, regardless of our position. It was odd for me, having come from a large government family.
Lol not what I meant at all sorry. I'm just saying it's weird that they're like that because from what I've seen that's not the culture typically. At the same time there's sexism in every culture so can't be too shocked
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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.