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Reader Stories: Share Your Harassment Story

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Harassment Stories: Have you been harassed in the workplace or while job searching? Share your story of what happened when you were harrassed at work or on a job interview. Also read stories from other About.com readers about how they were discriminated against.

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Harassed by My Supervisor

I went to supervisor and complained about a temporary employee going around telling people that I was bad-mouthing him and that he had a meeting with the HR manager and the dept. manager and he was g…More

Mall Management Bullies

It creates a mental torture every day. You go to work wondering what will they come up today with. And the fear of being kicked out. Cos they can throw you out whenever they feel like. There is no on…More

My Co-worker Exposed Himself To Me

I have to work along side a person who knows I don't want to see his ass. He has been spoken to by the men in the shop numerous times, as they also don't want to see his ass. When I repeatedly made i…More

Name-Calling and Abuse at McDonalds

I was quiet and timid when started working there, so people apparently took that for a weakness. I was called names of homosexual origin and it progressively started getting worse. Every time I do so…More

Using Facebook to Fight Discrimination Against Gays

I was bullied by a driver. He shouted and screamed insults at me and refused to handle the bags I had filled. I was given the cold shoulder and never spoken to. I was victimized in the office. They l…More

Document Each Act of Harassment

I felt unsafe, fearful, nauseous, and anxious, and uncomfortable in my own skin. He went to sexual harrassment prevention training and returned to continue the behavior. Other women in the office saw…More

Psychopath Boss

I later learned that this company wants followers only. And these are "les girls". Men are at the top and to be admired. Full stop. I had been in a satellite office and much of that culture had been …More

Office Bullies

It got worse when she's not promoted while all her team members got promoted. She bitched around all lies about me. She'd influence her friends of all lies about I badmouthed them before. And she ord…More

I Was Made Fun of Because I Was Fat

I was criticized for my size, for wearing the wrong sort of clothes, and for not being able to work fast enough. The other workers made "fatty" jokes behind my back and even in front of me. It got so…More

He Was Toothless and Creepy

He was creepy and mostly toothless and he would run his hand up and down my back for a long time.Besides being annoying, it definitely had sexual overtones, but I didn't know about sexual harassment …More

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