Careful with sexist behavior, almost got kicked out of CDL class

This disturbing post is just another indication of the decline of our country. After having seen many similiar incidents, I absolutlely believe that there is not “more to this story”. This poster is telling the truth; it really has gotten that bad.

Unfortunately, it’s only going to continue to get worse.

Goodbye, greatest country in the world.

When it’s all over, this country’s epitaph should read:
“And they all thought that they could simply vote their way out of it”

 

I was raised that it was nice to compliment someone on a nice suit/dress, new hair style or basically to say positive things to people. This usually helps to boost self-esteem and makes people happy.
But you say nice dress to the wrong woman and you're in trouble.

 

Or to the wrong dude, nowadays..... Lol

 

She can get a cdl, but with her mental health issues, no company will hire her unless she lies on medical forms.

 

Yeah, but the dress could still be really nice, the dude not so much. They're so touchy. (Oopsie..)

 

About 8 years ago I learned the hard way to not mingle with a coworker of the opposite sex.
Particularly since we were having casual sex, and when I ended it, I was suddenly “harassing” her.
Now I avoid females whenever possible, and am short and to the point when forced to deal with them.

 

(A boss with any experience will spot a person like that and send them packing.)
Real life earlier days...A boss with any experience will spot a person like that and just not have any openings right now....

 

Here's a thought- for the first however many weeks of class the dude constantly went to stand next to her, always tried to strike up a conversation, etc. Never crossed the line, but also never got the hint he was creeping her out.

On the day in question he said or did something that by itself is harmless, but when taken with everything else made her uncomfortable enough to say something to the instructors and was eerie enough that her complaint was corroborated.

In the past year I've had to talk to two different drivers about how they were interacting with females. One of them is just a redneck country boy who thought he was being polite and didn't understand why the female driver treated him with a certain aloofness. He didn't get that a 23 year old woman would get creeper about by a 45 year old man trying to talk to her and following her around during her postrip would come off creepy as heck. Or how calling her honey when he called the rest of us by name was making her uncomfortable. A quiet conversation between us resulted in some behavior changes by him and surprise surprise she wasn't creeper out anymore.

The other driver didn't understand that the dock worker was just being polite and nice. She was not interested in him by any stretch of imagination. This guy was taking polite #### chat, eye contact, and smiles as an invitation. The quiet conversation didn't work with this guy and I had to tell him to stop interacting with her or he was going to get nailed by HR. He kinda listened, but when he next screwed up, my company said "enough of this clown, he's not worth it".

I don't know the OP, or any more than what he's said. In my experience, most of these complaints tend to be valid. The harassment wasn't intended, but it still happened. When called on it the apology is along the lines of "I'm sorry you were offended " rather than "I didn't realize how this would impact you, I'll make sure to not do it again".

It's like when a kid breaks his neighbor's window. He didn't mean it, but he still needs to at least apologize and preferably make it right.