Exactly, @BellaB. No, I don’t expect someone in my office to actually attack anyone. As far as sexual harassment…that’s why we have an HR department. Why on earth would they come to me, a temp at this point, rather than to HR, unless I was a witness? So what would I accomplish by wearing a safety pin on my office dress, which, at this point, proclaims, “I WILL PROTECT YOU!”..... Ok. Protect you from whom? My bosses? My coworkers?
Plus it has the added suggestion that I protest Trump’s election, which, from what I’m gathering, is who several of my bosses and co-workers voted for. So I would accomplish nothing by wearing it in that environment except, possibly, cost me my tenuous possibility of becoming a permanent employee.
Plus it’s a fad. It’ll be gone in 3 or 4 months.
Again, for as long as I think it will actually serve a purpose, I’ll wear one on my own time. But still…I live in a small, Midwestern town. I don’t have to deal with a myriad of different types of people and there is no such thing as “public transport” here.
There are a couple of businesses owned by immigrants from India, and I’ve asked them if they’ve gotten any grief since the election. They said, “No.”
I said, “Good.”
Would I step up if I was witness to any bullshit grief being dished out to them. Hell yes I would.