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Farewell Party Can’t Help But Be Awful

A cherry on the shit sundae of leaving this company, I agree to a goodbye dinner because I am leaving some legit friendships behind. Few drinks in and I get sexually harassed, both physically and verbally, by two soon to be ex co-workers in front of everyone. Hella uncomfortable and I physically cringed. Now I’m in bed replaying the moments in my head and can’t get over them. Now that the “sexy” manager is leaving, it’s everyone’s last chance to try and get a grope in. I’m just sickened and feel like shit. I took a long shower and focused on my onboarding documents for my new company. I will have a very long exit interview coming up and want to talk about at least two of them at that dinner. I guess my question is, should I make a huge stink about this and burn my bridges? I don’t…


A cherry on the shit sundae of leaving this company, I agree to a goodbye dinner because I am leaving some legit friendships behind. Few drinks in and I get sexually harassed, both physically and verbally, by two soon to be ex co-workers in front of everyone. Hella uncomfortable and I physically cringed. Now I’m in bed replaying the moments in my head and can’t get over them.

Now that the “sexy” manager is leaving, it’s everyone’s last chance to try and get a grope in. I’m just sickened and feel like shit. I took a long shower and focused on my onboarding documents for my new company. I will have a very long exit interview coming up and want to talk about at least two of them at that dinner. I guess my question is, should I make a huge stink about this and burn my bridges? I don’t want this to happen to another person, but I also worry about retaliation reaching across to my other job since they both work with the government.

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