Apologies, gentle readers, for my absence from the wondrous inter webs. Friday we will return to our regularly scheduled programing, but for this evening I pose a question. What would you be willing to be fired over? That is to say, what action would you commit even though it might lead to your unemployment, but would be totally content to have committed? I ask this, gentle readers, because I almost came to that point today.
As you may have surmised, I work in retail. I put up with a lot of things from customers and management alike, because that is what you have to do to work in retail. But today I just about reached my limit. Today was the day of the Hipster-bros. That scary combination of this:
and this:
Yes gentle readers such a thing does exist and no, it is not cool. Now on to the point of this little exercise. Thanks to those oh so charming gentlemen, I came to the conclusion that I would be totally okay with being fired over breaking their wrist. I freely acknowledge being a young, reasonably attractive, heterosexual female, but that does not mean that I want some random guy grabbing my ass.
I will say, I did not end up having to break his hand, nor was I fired over this, but I did decide it would have been totally worth it. What do you think, gentle readers?
Protecting yourself from sexual assault is definitely okay to be fired over if it were me.
ReplyDeleteAn unwanted touching in the workplace is both sexual assault and sexual harassment. It should be reported immediately and you shouldn't be subject to any discipline in that situation.
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