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  1. #1
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    Default Discrimination and Harrassment at Work

    i need some help. i can not find the information i was looking for on the internet. I feel that i have been gender discriminated and harrassed at work. I work in the prison system for the state of kansas. An incident happened with the inmates. One night the Sgt told me that an inmate told him that i was flirting with him. when i went to tell the sgt that that was bull and i am going to just forget about it, i am not going to let that inmates alligation bother me because the inmate was lying. (The inamte had just yelled very loudly at another CO and i witnessed it. and he knew i was going to say something to the Sgt and that he would be in trouble, so i felt that the inmate was trying to discredit me before I dealt with his yelling) and , he, the sgt stood up and cut off what i was saying and literally got into my face and started yelling and told me that he was the Sgt and i was just a new CO and he is telling me this and we are not going to just "forget about it" i then said something and he says " do not interupt me, and i told him that he had interupted me and i then was told to go to the cpt office. which i did. the Cpt told me the Sgt had been in a bad mood all day, that he was wrong etc. and i wrote a narrative on the incident. the incident was forwarded to EEO.......... which leads me to the following night. I was working the same cell house 3-11 again but with a different Sgt. late into the night about 910 the Sgt came to me and told me that "I" was talking to the inmates too much. that i am not "allowed" to talk to them. Specifically stating "you are a female it is not okay, If you were a male there would not be a problem. " and I said that i have had the same training as you and the rules apply to me the same as any "male" and my "conversations" were very legit and nothing more...... so i then wrote a narrative on this incident. and filed a complaint with EEO myself.
    My question is does this fall under sexual harrassment or gender discrimantion. what should i do? I was going to quit because the Sgt's have discredited me and belittled me in front of the inmates two nights in a row and i feel that my safety is an issue now. I beleive the inmates see this as though "they" do not have to listen to me because i am female, because this is the point that was made.

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    Default Re: Discrimination and Harrassment at Work

    No, you have not experienced sexual harassment and I doubt that your co-worker's admonitions about your behavior with the inmates is sex discrimination.

    You are new to the job and have managed to have two incidents already with your co-workers, who apparently were trying to provide you with guidance on how to do your job in an environment they know more about than you do. Your safety may be at issue because you are in the process of alienating them, your backups; not because of any issues with the inmates.

    Unless you want to spend most of your time writing narratives and sending them off to EEO, you need to learn how to work productively with your co-workers. The first step is probably to learn how to listen.

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