Speak Up!

Katrina, Denver
     I switched to an overnight shift from my previous day shift because my family needed the extra money.  
     At first, I didn’t think anything of it when my new supervisor started asking me personal questions.  He asked about my home life with my husband and my sexual past and things like if I [...]

I will never be the same
     I was working as a temp at a technology company.
     This engineer posted a collage of pictures  on the wall and told me to come look at them.  Then he started asking me personal questions:  Do you have a boyfriend?  Do you see him a lot?  
      I couldn’t see the pictures [...]

Healing, California
     I have been a registered nurse for thirty three years and work in the area of acute rehabilitation.  In 1999 I divorced after twenty years.  At the time, I thought of nothing but keeping the bills paid and my three daughters…finishing HS and then college. 
     In 2001 there was an older male nurse [...]

Jenna, Alaska    
     I recently left a job after being sexually harassed for the third time in a row. I learned from the former times that only my reputation would be hurt if I spoke up.
     At one job, the boss was looking at child porn on the Internet and then asking me if I thought the girl was [...]

Scared Girl, Australia
     It all started a week before Christmas, about 4 yrs ago.   
     I had gone out and left the house in a mess. I did not notice anything was wrong until the next morning when I went to pay my rent and the money was missing.  Then I noticed my room looked a [...]

T, Washington
     I worked in a male dominated profession.  During my one year probationary requirement, my supervisor started making sexual remarks which I dealt with by ignoring the behavior. 
     After a couple of weeks, my supervisor began to show up to my home unexpectedly to talk.  At first, I didn’t know what to think of this [...]

Patrick, Oklahoma
     I just started a new job and the supervisor continually makes degrading remarks about fellow workers personal odors, sexual preferences, appearances, working habits.
     He is a total locker room bully and this week alone has asked me if I like little boys, have I ever considered a sex change operation, that I have [...]

Kella, Nebraska
     A guy at work and I became friends.  We are both married, but his is in the ditch.  I tried to help him get resourceful information to help his marriage situation.
     But he crossed the line.  He started to call me “hun” and “babe.”   He started keeping an eye on who I was talking to and going [...]

Leeada, Montana
     I have been a Court Clerk for 11 years and 2 months. My first boss, a female Judge retired at the end of her term in 2002.  We were “blessed” with a male Judge who is an elected official.
     There is now a case pending against our boss with the Judicial Standard Committee [...]

Tonya, Tennessee
     I have been working for one of the nation’s largest retailer’s for about three years now.
     Last year we got a new assistant manager who seemed to like me a bit too much, and didn’t want to take “No” for an answer.  He was constantly saying inappropriate things…shooting rubber bands at my chest, and acting [...]