Sexually harassed/assaulted? at work by a coworker last night
Hey guys.
I’m 10 weeks 3 days pregnant and my hormones are RAGING but I don’t know if I feel very justified on being upset and angry about this.
I have a resident who is crazy most days and makes some very funny/weird comments. Last night at dinner she was pointing at different people (me included) and says “I think he had an accident. I can smell it.” I laughed and got up from the table to push a resident out to the hallway since we were almost done.
My coworker followed me and I didn’t even have time to react to this, but she grabbed my pants and underwear and pulled them out and looked down into my underwear like she was “checking me” to see if it was me, then she goes “wow you have a nice tush.”
I was so angry and felt so violated, I couldn’t even do anything but just be hurt and mad. I finished pushing the resident to the hallway and got the rest of everyone out, notified my nurses of what happened and just focused on my job to my best ability, filed a report at the end of the night.
It’s now past noon the next day and I’m still upset and feel very uncomfortable about the situation. I doubt my job will do anything about it.
Is this considered sexual assault or is it sexual harassment? Am I letting the pregnancy hormones get the best of me over a situation that isn’t that big of a deal?
I work with this lady alone today and I’m terrified that she will try something else. I was molested by my stepdad (now ex stepdad) as a child and this brought up so many feelings for me and now I’m having a lot of anxiety over it.
I feel like maybe I’m overreacting, but I just can’t shake that weird feeling.
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