I’m going to preface this by saying I’m quitting in a month (I need the money before I travel abroad). Just need to rant rn.
So I work in a department with only men. I was switched from the job I was hired for to a much better paying position in a different department. There are two men I primarily deal with. I’ll call them Mark and Rafael.
Mark was always the nicer of the two. When I was first introduced to him I had weird vibes but I ignored them because he seemed to be a decent dude compared to Rafael. Rafael is a psycho. He would make me do work that was way out of my pay grade and skills (like design things in photoshop for instance which I have limited knowledge of) and then tell me I did a shitty job and scrap it. He’s made completely inappropriate comments to me so many times and called me after hours to ask me personal questions. Mark I guess figured out that Rafael makes me uncomfortable and took it on upon himself to make sure I don’t have to work with Rafael anymore.
Mark has been crossing boundary after boundary recently and getting way too comfy in the way he “banters” with me. It’s exhausting that I need to be a cold b!tch so to speak to get it to stop. Both men are married with children and at least 15+ years older then me. It’s so frustrating as a woman that this is the crap we need to deal with. I see all these women on social media being like I’m a woman I’ll dress as I please but until you’re in a corporate environment that may even have a casual dress code and you have to deal with advances from men of all ages (these two are not the only ones) you wouldn’t even want to do anything that will attract their attention. It feels really gross.