'The manager [...] didn't want [him] to even finish the shift': Misogynist coworker insists he doesn't listen to women, ends up unemployed also

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    Font - Posted by u/AnselaJonla 3 days ago How "I don't listen to women" ended in unemployment M OC TI;Dr team leader used an arsehole coworker's refusal to listen to women and his nicotine addiction to get him removed from a shift, and ultimately his job I'm a woman in retail merchandising, which skews male in terms of employment statistics. Most guys I work with are okay, but as the company I started with literally took anyone who was signing on the day the recruiter visited the job centre (tha
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    Font - On many of our jobs there's a "no smoking in the delivery yard" rule. Unless that's where the smoking shelter is, you don't smoke out there. One client does not allow smoke breaks between 11pm and 6am either, which irritates many of my coworkers due to the high level of nicotine addicts among them. If you get caught slipping into the yard for a crafty one, you're removed from the job, and possibly even the contract if you're a frequent offender. Cue this guy, we'll call him Puff. He's a s
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    Font - On this occasion I was the only woman on the team, and the only non-smoker. As a non-smoker I had more freedom of movement than the guys: I was the only one allowed to take trolleys out of the front door (you don't realise how many shopping trolleys (carts) a store has until you've used almost all of them to empty three aisles of stock that are being moved around), and the only one allowed out unsupervised in the yard. Now, no one liked Puff. He was rude, and a nightmare to be around. And
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    Font - One of the things we needed to do, because the fitters couldn't be arsed, was throw the old shelves and brackets in the skip. This thing was an industrial one, nearly twice my height, and the end was closed. You had to throw things into it. Shelves are metal. And these ones were about 5ft wide and 25" deep. I could lift them, and manoeuvre them into place, but throwing them that high solo? Not a chance! The guys could manage it though. I was always sent out with one of the guys, and told
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    Font - So the team leader sent me off with another pallet of mixed shelves and brackets (which were light enough for me to throw), and sent Puff trailing after me. Puff was happy to do so, realising it was an opportunity to suck down some nicotine. Only instead of ducking behind the skip, where he'd be out of sight of both the cameras and the warehouse door, he leant against it in full sight of both and sparked up. "Y'know, you might want to go round the back so you're not spotted." "I don't lis
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    Font - 38 LadyAlexTheDeviant days ago One job I had had me seriously thinking of taking up smoking. All the smokers could look around, see we were in a lull, and say, "Hey, Manager, can I go smoke one?" And the manager would say yeah. He knew I didn't smoke. Can I go outside for five minutes and breathe and just decompress? Nope. 1.6k ack1308 +1 . 3 days ago At one site, I asked the boss if I could have a non-smoking break. 1.1k Reply Share He paused, thought about it, and said, "Sure, why not."
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    Font - 2piglet days ago Does that mean he never listened to his mom! 868 Blah12821 Probably. 260 Reply Share +1.3 days ago 212 NotUrMomsBanana Reply Share +1.3 days ago No, this is him thinking he's some alpha or "cool". ... Reply Share ...
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    Organism - baddspeler 3 days ago Puff the Magic Drag Gone. 124 Reply Share Happytallperson Lived by the skip 17 . 3 days ago Reply Share
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    Font - Stickybeebae +1.3 days ago I'm glad you didn't get punished for his shit behavior. 389 dessimus +1. 3 days ago She already advised him to stop smoking, so short of getting a fire extinguisher and shooting it in his face, how is she supposed to make him stop? Reply Share 238 Reply Share
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    Font - technos +32 days ago "I don't listen to women," was the predictable reply. A company I worked at hired one of those. He lasted something like two hours, 90 minutes of which was watching an orientation video and filling out forms. He wasn't even there long enough for me to meet him and put him in the time card system. One of the supervisors came to give him the tour and introduce him to the guy he'd be shadowing. He looked at her, said "I don't take orders from women", and proceeded to wal

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