I was once hired by a horrible company in the trucking industry. It was an archaic place where the idea of sexual equality doesn't exist. Never mind racial equality - I kept my mixed racial heritage to myself. We're talking a place where the boss smokes cigars in his office and men talk to the women on staff like their retarded and failures since they aren't married and at home raising children. So I was a file clerk - typical female job. When they hired me, something had gone wrong with the usual computer, so the big head of the company from... I don't remember where - somewhere else - let me use his laptop during the day and took it back to the hotel at the end of the day. He presented it to me like I was ... I don't now... unable to process thoughts due to my ovaries? He was just painfully condescending, but also repeatedly warned me that the laptop was very expensive and I needed to be careful with it, not trip on the cord, etc. He warned me this way... every hour or so? Like I was a learning disabled child who's memory span was too short to remember. It was a horrible place. The other men called me sweety and made comments about my body... It was horrible. A few days later, I came back to my desk after some filing, to find the laptop screen destroyed and the keyboard reading the wrong letters. I was horrified, but some of the other employees assured me that the boss guy had tripped on the cord himself, that they had seen him. From that point on the boss treated me as though it was somehow my fault that he had smashed his laptop. I mean he would glare at me and barely speak to me. After way too long putting up with this (on top of a lot of other garbage I can't be bothered to type out - the other office ladies hated me because unlike them I was well educated and well spoken, and I guess that made me a snob?) another member of the management groped me by grabbing at the skin between my shirt and slacks. I quit and never went back.
(edit: I just remembered - for Christmas everyone got a ham or turkey or something as a holiday "bonus" but they didn't give me one, even though the called all of us office "girls" together and handed them out. They skipped right over me with no explaination, giving a card and meat to the lady on either side of me.)
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