@LuckyGuy Interesting. I’m a guy too, and have never been sexually harassed per se in the workplace. However there were some men whose behavior was inappropriate and was disturbing to be around.
* The case that reminds me the most of yours, LuckyGuy, and makes me think it’s probably a too common thing, was the time I worked in Human Resources for one day. It was supposed to be a probably permanent job, but the veteran I joined in the Human Resources information center was extremely inappropriate. He gossiped nearly non-stop about all the cases he felt were entertaining in the company’s records, talking about people with sex-changes and other private situations. When I told him I was married, he went on about how “oh that must be amazing to be able to have sex all the time”... all of it made me uncomfortable, but supposedly I was to continue to work with this person in a small room going forward. Then he left for lunch without really training me, and I had to answer the phone, and I admitted to callers it was my first day, and forwarded a call or two.
I’m not sure why I was told I shouldn’t come back the next day. It could have been my call forwards, or my saying it was my first day, or possibly either because my co-worker didn’t like the way I wasn’t into his gossip, or perhaps even that it was a perverted test to see if I’d report the inappropriate gossip. Whatever the reason was, I was relieved to be out of there!
* Other cases were male-dominated workplaces where men would make very crude remarks about women or other inappropriate talk, generally in all-male company. It was disturbing to essentially be required to be a party to that and not complain, or risk professional consequences.
All minuscule potatoes, I realize, in comparison to being a woman around such behavior, or to be targeted for harassment or unwanted aggressive advances.