Ruining the Work Dynamic

My court clerk would deliberately remove my name from the court list, would withhold files by lying as to their whereabouts, and even once threw a file at my feet because I put it on his desk. His attitude made me detest my law firm–a firm I actually enjoyed working in. 

I did not report these out of fear that my complaints would “ruin the work dynamic”, which I now find to be a bad justification as by ignoring it, I simply aggravated it, and am now allowing that man to treat other women the same way. 

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Harassment Gone Unpunished

I was leaving my workplace in the lift and the courier guy asked me: “Do you work here?” A pointless question. When I looked up, he was holding his phone up. Then I heard a camera sound (taking a picture). I said “You’ve taken a picture!” but he said he hadn’t. When the lift opened and I saw the office guard, I told him to give me the phone. He fidgeted with it before the office guard snatched it from him. He didn’t find my picture but saw a lot of pictures of girls which were obviously taken unknowingly- someone studying, sitting somewhere, that kind of stuff.

When my organization spoke to his supervisor, he (the supervisor) was surprised because this behavior did not go so well with the fact that he was a bearded guy, and prayed 5 times a day. Anyway, the CEO said he would take care of it but I didn’t see it happen. Even after some probing, I got no apology, no explanation, nothing… and that was pretty much the end of the story.

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