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  • 10-22-2018, 10:02 AM
    kelly12345
    What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist
    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: VA

    Hi,

    My manager is very sexist and ocassionally boasts about how he keeps his wife under control and is a rape culture propagator. I am the only female on an all male team in a top banking firm.

    I recently got promoted as well and I feel my manager is envious of it. I am always sidelined at meetings and was excluded from many. Excuse being we didn't know. The entire team participates. I complained about his evident behaviour to his direct boss but wasn't taken seriously. HR didn't do anything because I had no witnesses.

    What can I possibly do with my team against me?
  • 10-22-2018, 10:24 AM
    PayrolGuy
    Re: Manager is Sexist
    I think the next step would be talking to the HR department or superiors and saying your next step will be a claim with the EEOC.

    That said Kelly, You used the phrase, "rape culture propagator." How, exactly does he do that?
  • 10-22-2018, 10:57 AM
    kelly12345
    Re: Manager is Sexist
    He once said that women should be raped to be put in their place. In front of other people who turned a blind eye.

    I am tired of fighting alone. I have recently been pregnant and they have already accused me of taking my stress out on the team. Anything I do or say is being twisted into the image of an angry or emotional woman who has just had a baby.
  • 10-22-2018, 02:43 PM
    adjusterjack
    Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist
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    What can I possibly do with my team against me?

    You can start by secretly recording what he says.

    Virginia is a one party consent state. A participant in the conversation may secretly record the conversation.

    See summary at:

    https://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recor...guide/virginia

    Each time you get him recorded, take it home and transfer it to your computer for safe-keeping.

    When you get enough to demonstrate blatant and continuous sexual harassment, send the recordings to the President of the company.

    HR will not help you. Nor will your boss' immediate superiors. This will have to come down from the top.

    It may take you a few months to amass enough incidents for the President to take it seriously.

    Meantime, seek employment elsewhere because there is an even chance that you will eventually lose your job over this. And then you'll have an EEOC claim and you can throw everybody under the bus.
  • 10-22-2018, 03:22 PM
    Taxing Matters
    Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist
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    HR will not help you. Nor will your boss' immediate superiors. This will have to come down from the top.

    I disagree. Your anti-corporate bias is showing through again. While that might be true at some firms it is definitely not true of all of them. HR and other management officials at a number of companies certainly will act when given solid evidence of the wrongful behavior. As you don't know the people at the firm she works for, you are not really in position to flat out say that HR "will not help you." It might, and she probably should start there with the evidence she gets, and then escalate it from there if needed.
  • 10-22-2018, 05:33 PM
    jk
    Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist
    Some businesses will terminate you for skipping over HR or other departments and heading straight to the top. HR and other assets are created to perform a function. Ignoring them and thinking you need to bend the ear of the highest level you can reach is often not looked upon kindly.

    as to saving up all the evidence and somehow using that to throw everybody under the bus: an employee must allow the employer the opportunity to rectify the situation. The law states that an employee is considered an agent of the employer for the purposes of negative activity IF the employer knew or should have known of the issue. If the employer is not aware or an issue and has no reason to be aware of it, the only person under the bus is...

    well...

    maybe the single individual op claims to be the cause of the hostile work environment becasue the employer isn’t expected to rectify situations unless they are aware of them. That won’t do the op much good as long as the employer does act to correct any unlawful actions once they do become aware of them.

    The offending employee may get as little as a stern talking to and a “don’t do that anymore” which would fulfill the requirements of the employer under the law.
  • 10-22-2018, 05:42 PM
    kelly12345
    Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist
    I already approached HR as I mentioned in my previous post. They dismissed me because there was no one to back up my claims. Thanks for all your replies.
  • 10-22-2018, 05:54 PM
    jk
    Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist
    So without some evidence or support for your claims it becomes a he said she said situation (to an extent). Why would a superior manager do anything more than HR if there is no support or proof of your claim?

    is there anybody that agrees with your position? Is there anybody that has witnessed whatever the manager is doing you believe to be improper? Did you inform HR of witness to the offensive behavior?
  • 10-22-2018, 06:02 PM
    PayrolGuy
    Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist
    HR should have started some level of investigation on the OPs first notification. And they may well have.
  • 10-22-2018, 07:37 PM
    bcr229
    Re: What are Your Rights if Your Manager is Sexist
    OP should also keep a written log of the incidents, including date/time, what was said, who was present, location, etc.
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