I worked at a supermarket in western Massachusetts for five years.in my last year there, a group of overgrown junior high school students made up horrible sexual rumors about me, telling other people in the store that I was every kind of pervert they could think of, and harassed me whenever they got a chance. I was already suffering from two disabilites — major depression and severe, crippling social anxiety disorder — so I was barely able to even defend myself against these idiots, or defend my reputation to all those they told about my "perversions." Meanwhile, a girl I had been good friends with falsely accused ME of harassment, when I had been enduring this treatment for months. Management ran roughshod over me, automatically believing my female accuser, but did nothing about the people harassing me, saying I was just imagining it and that I should just suck it up and be a man about it, that it only mattered if women were harassed, despite their own written company rules and state and federal discrimination rules which, obviously, say men can be victims of harassment, too.
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