Speak Up!

Simone, Trinidad
     Yesterday,  my boss approached me with sexual advances.  I was stunned.  I could not believe this was happening.  I did not know what to do, what to say, or who to talk to.  I thought, I  will tell him I did not like what he did and continue to work there.   But the [...]

Amber
     I’ve been working at my job for a little over a year, and since the second or third month that I’ve been working here I’ve been harassed by my boss.  I was blind to it at first.  It’s a small, private company and I am the only female working in the office.  It is [...]

Jenny
     I was just hired less than a year ago into an IT department and was transferred from one team to another about two months ago.  The new team I’ve been assigned to never had a girl before on their small team.  Two of them wanted to get to know me as a friend and [...]

Lindsey
     I recently had an issue with my boss where he was hitting on me CONSTANTLY. Because he was my boss, I was scared to make him angry.  So when he would text and call I would just play along with the situation. I was scared to jeopardize my current position at work.  
     Soon he was [...]

Justme, California
     Well it all started back in November of 2008 when this new employee was training at my job. He would make comments at me, such as “Sexy mama,” and kept asking me out for drinks.  On several occasions we went out as a group after work and he would sit next to me [...]

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 [...]

Shanda, Oregon
     My issue started about 5 months ago when a new employee started at my work.  I’m the youngest person in the office and I recently was moved up to the front desk (reception area).   He’s 35, recently divorced, and was moving in to a new career.   
     After he got to know everyone he was [...]

Broken
     I am 24 years old and was recently fired from a job that I excelled at, was passionate about, and had been very excited about.  I was an assistant coach of a division 1 athletic team while attending graduate school.  I had been so passionate about this sport my entire life and earned a [...]

Jennifer, Virginia
     Beginning the first week of employment until the week I resigned, I was repeatedly sexually and verbally harassed by the co-owner of the business where I was working.  (The business is owned by a group of brothers.)  Some incidences were daily while others were once every week to two weeks.
      He has grabbed [...]

Jeanie, North Carolina
     I’m a 25 yr old telecommunicator working in a male-dominated field.
     Over the past 2 years I have been “putting up with” my Lt’s advances that started out as comments about my looks or smells and escalated to inappropriate touching.
     I did my best to ignore him, or avoid him, yet this [...]