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A person I work with put in an e-mail that I “should be replaced with a woman,” in an apparent attempt to intimidate me.

I saved that and printed it about five different ways. I work with this real piece of work salesperson who will just say the gnarliest shit out of left field. She is super conservative (observant Mormon exclusively educated by LDS) and has very stringent ideas of what people should be that I think are rooted in that. She also ironically feels entitled to ignore all rules of my pretty strict industry. I had to enforce a required rule and she decided I was the enemy. At some point, she fired off an e-mail that I should be fired and replaced with a woman, with strong, sexist implications that a woman would be easier for her to control (she is no direct authority over me, it’s more different departments.) She starts acting out again today, complaining that one of my co-workers is on PTO (until she found out it was because…


I saved that and printed it about five different ways. I work with this real piece of work salesperson who will just say the gnarliest shit out of left field. She is super conservative (observant Mormon exclusively educated by LDS) and has very stringent ideas of what people should be that I think are rooted in that. She also ironically feels entitled to ignore all rules of my pretty strict industry.

I had to enforce a required rule and she decided I was the enemy. At some point, she fired off an e-mail that I should be fired and replaced with a woman, with strong, sexist implications that a woman would be easier for her to control (she is no direct authority over me, it’s more different departments.) She starts acting out again today, complaining that one of my co-workers is on PTO (until she found out it was because her mother died) and then forwards this old e-mail to me, I guess to scare me.

Not a real smart plan. I don’t know what alternate universe it is ok to say that and especially put it into writing but it isn’t this one.

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