BeeCharmer’s Buzz

seriously. I think we have a slam dunk, “hostile work environment” case just waiting to explode. Already have the evidence and witnesses (about 8 years worth). We are just waiting for the final nail to go into the coffin (bad metaphor).  It’s a little scary. We could really use some legal advice or references. I don’t think I want to talk to anyone local. I am hoping for high powered, cilvil rights type with a Seattle or Portland Address . If the attorney were family, that would be a bonus. But then again I don’t know what is right here.

Ugh I have to vent. So Sorry for the cerebral diarrhea that is bound to spill out about………….uh, now.

There will probably be some serious cursing coming up next, but I will try to contain myself.SFD! (If you don’t know what that is, you don’t need to know). The other night Honey comes home from work early, like 4 hours early. I am asleep.  She gives me a kiss when she gets home, as usual. I wake up and chat with her for a minute. She tells me this story about what happened at her morally corrupt place of work. (repeating slowly *one more year, only one more year*) OK let me just say weid sh*t happens at that place. Things that are unspeakable of in corporate America , happen in this place all the time. It is the cesspool of human existance. Except for a select group of sweet, cool and smart people we have fallen in love with over the years.

Back to her story. She was threatened by a customer.The customer in question is a regular and a thug. Usually he is quiet and respectful but that night he was on a bender.  He spoke loudly and vulgarly of a weapon and how he was going to use it. General enough? 2 other customer were nearby, but unfortunately neither spoke English.  A manager was not 24″ away from  Honey at the time. Honey then talks to to manager in front of customer, there was no other way to talk to him. Believe me. Manager asks man to be polite and walks away, that’s it.  You think that is the end of story, right? Nope, gets worse. Honey is on break and is mad as hell and near tears. Honey asks why they throw someone out for calling another girl a B*, and this guy gets to stay after verbally threatening and harrasing her.  We don’t think it’s a gay thing, we think it is because the customer in question has a lot of cash at his disposal?  Read between the lines. 

Now what to do? Could this person really do something to her or our family? Why didn’t somebody at work protect her- just in case the guy was serious? And….this isn’t the first time. The other times are just as bad, just in different context.

Not to mention I quit the same place because of my creepy supervisor who insisted on calling me lezzie and dyke- you know in the “fun” way.

SFD SFD SFD

I want her out of that place- I am so over hearing these stories. If she quitsher job, I will have to quit school and we never stop working for minimum wage. Honey is a good and generous and smart and witty person who does not deserve to be treated this way. Ugh. What do I do?