Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
So I need to know I did the right thing because I’m having some serious anxiety about it.
I work in a healthcare building full of vulnerable adults. I went to another building a couple hours away at the request of our corporate office to help them since they are really struggling (and let me tell you it was a fucking mess). Anyways, I was there for two days. While I was there, my office was up be there to the administrator and state surveyors were in the building (the main reason I had to go help them).
This guy that works there has his office at the other end of the building, let’s call him Bob. He would always come find a reason to chat with me, work or non work related (knowing I was incredibly busy), ask where I was staying the night, winking at me occasionally, and standing WAY to close to me to the point I had to ask him to back up.
Now this didn’t really bother me, I can handle myself. I figured it was because I’m pretty and because I was fresh meat in the building. Then I come back to my home building and I’m talking to the owner of a staffing agency. I mention that I was up there and she says her company staffs the building. She asked if I ran into Bob while there. I said yes, and that he was an interesting person. She informed me that her staff are refusing to go into the building to work because he sexually harasses them and the administrator won’t do anything about it. She won’t say anything to my regional person because she doesn’t want to ruin the business relationship. She asked me to not say anything.
I told my regional. I am a mandatory reporter by law. It made me sick to think about those poor girls being harassed and nothing done about it. I just told my regional what she told me and that he was very forward with me and that I wasn’t sure how much of it was true, but I felt the need to say something just in case it was.
I’ve started having horrible anxiety about it. I feel like I did something wrong and it’s making me feel sick. Did I do the right thing? Should I have kept it to myself?
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