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How 1 manager Ruined Me In date I started a job working as a forklift operator with Company in their export department. Little did I know, that the manager I was about to meet would change everything I ever thought about the working world. For the first couple of months everything was great, I’d show up to work every morning, freight would come in and go out, the employees were becoming friends, and my manager Manager Name was really easy to get along with. His philosophy of, I don’t care what you do as long as the work gets done, made everyday pretty simple. After about 6 months of being employed, everything changed. On or about Date I was hired full time by Company, and was no longer a temporary employee. I had been with the company now for around 6 months and was pretty comfortable with all my coworkers. But my direct supervisor was getting too comfortable, about this time is when he started to reveal his true self. Each morning he would come in and explain in detail the porn he had watched before work. He would attempt to show us on his phone, though most of us were just put off and walked away in the male dominated field of shipping, this isn’t a problem for most, but it bothered me I would go about my day and not allow it to affect my work. Jump forward about a year or so, and we hired a new Forklift operator named Operator Name. She fit right in with the group, and after about a month my supervisor, Manager Name, became very comfortable with her and began making comments on her breast’s and butt on a daily basis most of the time it was not to her, but to me as he had began to trust me because I had been with the company for so long. When thus behavior began I warned him multiple times in a friendly manner that he could not use that kind of language with other employees as it is a clear violation of Company sexual harassment policies, to which he would laugh and brush off. This behavior continued for over 2 years, and because it bothered me I continually reported it to Company in house compliance reporting system as well as their hotline. Yet when the began to “investigate” these instances, all evidence of such actions would magically disappear. Manager Name would get angry he was reported, change his behavior for a few days, then right back to it. It became so bad that at 1 point he had harassment claims against him from 3 different people, yet Company still found no evidence of wrongdoing. I contemplated moving up the chain of command to our regional director, Director Name but during a conversation between him and Manager Name I heard them both making sexual references about another female coworker and I knew my voice would not be heard. Fast forward to the spring of 2023, and this behavior has continued and intensified to the point that I could no longer stand by. I was tired of this gentleman belittling women and men, and parading his sexual exploits and the workplace. So I made a formal report about the harassment, but this time it wasn’t anonymous. I put that I made the report so that I could tell my story. I felt relieved, I was finally going to let them know what I’ve had to deal with for so long and hopefully be able to come into a workplace without being harassed every day. Boy was I wrong. In Date, about 3 months after my report, I was called into our front office to have a meeting with our regional director. But when I walk in, sitting right there is my supervisor, the one who harasses everyone. And in this meeting I’m told that instead of moving the supervisor, or reprimanding him, that I would be forcibly placed into another, much less desirable department, so that him and I would not interact.i did not really have a say in the matter because they stuck me in the same room, cornered me really, with the man who has been harassing me for years. So I move to this new position, but because of a birth defect I was born with, I inform them that this new position is dangerous to me and I can not perform it safely. I let them know I wanted my previous position back. Instead of offering this position back, they decided to retaliate and just release me as an employee. After 4 years of trying to improve the company and myself, of dealing with sexual harassment on a daily basis, they would rather not deal with the harassment claim. I couldn’t believe my ears. But I wanted to share my story so that everyone may know what happened, and know that no, you are not safe in their workplace. If you report it, they release you