When I worked in the convention industry, my boss quit a few weeks before an event and I had to absorb his workload. I worked 6am-11pm 3 days in a row and on the 4th morning I passed out on the floor and was taken to the hospital.
HR accused me of being hungover despite not even having time to get drunk the night before. They banned alcohol at work events.
I’m not a big drinker so…whatever. But of course the rumor spread and everyone silently blamed me.
Then a year later a new coworker forcibly kissed me several times at an event. I was planning on quitting anyway so I didn’t report it but a different coworker did on my behalf after I asked her not to. HR told me it was my fault (“If you knew she was a messy drunk, why were you with her?”) and signed me up for a sexual harassment seminar because “clearly [you] don’t know what sexual assault is.”
I regret not suing for the second one but I just wanted to put that job behind me.
When I worked in the convention industry, my boss quit a few weeks before an event and I had to absorb his workload. I worked 6am-11pm 3 days in a row and on the 4th morning I passed out on the floor and was taken to the hospital.
HR accused me of being hungover despite not even having time to get drunk the night before. They banned alcohol at work events.
I’m not a big drinker so…whatever. But of course the rumor spread and everyone silently blamed me.
Then a year later a new coworker forcibly kissed me several times at an event. I was planning on quitting anyway so I didn’t report it but a different coworker did on my behalf after I asked her not to. HR told me it was my fault (“If you knew she was a messy drunk, why were you with her?”) and signed me up for a sexual harassment seminar because “clearly [you] don’t know what sexual assault is.”
I regret not suing for the second one but I just wanted to put that job behind me.