Quote: (08-27-2013 11:29 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
This happened on Monday, I shit you not.
A couple of the HR Cow's came into my office and requested my presence, saying there are no men in HR, and they needed one to hear a sexual harrassment complaint in the interest of fairness. I figure what the hell, and go, thinking it might lead to an interesting hamster story.
Turns out, it was one of the flaming gay male nurses on staff. He started by saying it was a year ago and he has trouble sleeping since 'the incident', and that he actually feels like he has post-traumatic stress, and finds it hard to come into work and socialise with staff and patients. But he realised it's time to be brave because workplace bullies shouldn't get away with such 'injustices' so he needs to stand up and be a 'hero'.
Yes, he used that word. I figure, OK, some dude on staff has raped the guy, but, then, with much comforting from the women and boxes of tissues being passed around to mop up tears, he told us what happened.
There's a huge fat female nurse on staff, ugliest thing you'll ever see. Standard dyed hair, 50's glasses. He said he was talking to her at her desk, and she put his hand up his shorts and touched his dick on a day he'd chosen to go commando. That was the full extent of it. "I never wanted a woman touching that! I've been violated."
That's when I burst out laughing.
Flaming gay lost his shit over that: "Why has every man I've told laughed? I'm going to call the Human Rights commission! I've been sexually assaulted!"
End result: the HR Cows were very unhappy with me. I apparently need 'sensitivity training', and they're organising it. I'm taking this as a clear sign that it's time to leave the public sector.
Following up on this:
I left that workplace a couple of weeks later and in the private sector where this kind of stupidity doesn't exist. By utter coincidence, there are no women on staff. Odd that. Work just flies by now, and shit gets done without all the complication.
Before I left, I repeatedly told the flaming gay, in as calm and straighforward a manner as possible, that he wouldn't win the complaint, as the Fat Nurse - he calls her 'Divine' - was friends with the Upper Female Manager, and has been incompetent and lazy at her job for years but is oddly-untouchable considering she is unqualified and is the lowest ranked member of staff.
I said if she wasn't fired for calling a patient a 'boong' on Facebook [aussie slander word for aboriginal, she was saved because she didn't list her workplace on her profile]; telling an emphysema patient his wheezing was driving her crazy and to 'fucking stop it'; and leaving a dementia patient unsupervised in a motorised chair in the car park because 'sun would be good for him', requiring the police to try and find where he'd gone, then grabbing a handful of his dong wasn't going to do it either.
His reply: "But this is sexual harrassment!" I explained women hold the power in this situation and government incompetence will win out, and his homosexual victim status wouldn't matter because women stick together and have no empathy for men. He told me I was "being sexist" and "not to be silly".
Ran into him a few weeks later in town, and he said the women were all ostracising him, and Divine was organising outside of work social events for the other women during times when he was on shift. I warned him that women know how to play the social game and the victimisation game much better than men, and he wouldn't win. Once again, he told me I was "being silly!"
A couple of weeks after that, I seem him around town again, and he tells me that he is no longer allowed to give her any instructions in the workplace, despite him ranking higher than her in the chain of command, because she calls this 'workplace bullying' and has repeatedly reported him. None of the women socialise with him anymore, and it's all angry glares and one word responses until he leaves the room.
He tracked me down last night, angry enough to find my home phone number in the old staff directory. After almost three months of legal proceedings, he got the final report yesterday.
It was a letter of reprimand against him, stating he wasn't wearing work-approved uniform shorts in the workplace.
That was it. Divine isn't getting punished in any way, and there was no reference to her assaulting him at all.
He lost his shit. The dude was ranting. "I was wearing cargo pants that go below the knee! Unfuckingbelievable! They must be the same cunts that think women wearing short skirts are asking to be raped!"
I said, "Women believe they are incapable of doing anything wrong, and will back each other up to keep the delusion."
Then he said "I used to think you were really, really sexist and you were talking shit, but everything you said was completely true. They all ganged up on me. None of them talk to me at work any more. No wonder straight men hate women and complain about them all the time. They're fucking crazy bitches!"
He said he was going to quit, and he was qualified and really good at what she does, and doesn't understand why they'd keep a woman with no qualifications who has zero empathy for the patients.
I patiently talked him down off the ledge, but he signed off by saying he was now 'a misogynist', and understood why other gays call them 'fish'.
So, there you go. In the Victimisation Battle of A Gay Man vs A Fat, Incompetent Woman, the latter wins. Your tax dollars in action.