Amberations

Tuesday, February 06, 2007
No offense to our evolutionary ancestors intended:

Today's yucky incident with Boss:

Today we had a meeting with Shell to review my Corrosion manual, and Boss and I decided to drive there in his car. We left around 8:30am, and as we exited the
Cimarron parking lot gate, Boss began to laugh out loud to himself, chuckling "oh, if I told you THAT thought I just had, I would be in BIG trouble".

Afraid to ask, but not wanting to be rude I replied "what" in an annoyed tone. Boss's response: "oh, well [insert Cimarron staff member's name here] was coming into the gate as we were leaving, and I was going to roll down my window and yell "Amber and I here, we are just heading out to do some SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Wink Wink".

My response was silence. I did not smile nor encourage this buffoonery with a laugh either. I did convey a serious yet sarcastic "ha. ha.", to which Boss replied "See? I TOLD you that you wouldn't find it funny. No one has a sense of humour anymore these days."

I said (in a serious, unfriendly tone), "I have a sense of humour, but I don't find that funny."

Boss: "Well these days you end up with a lawsuit slapped on you for something that you didn't even mean in the first place."

I stopped responding after that.

Later in the car I took off my down jacket because it was ridiculously hot and I was starting to sweat a bit. Boss commented on my taking off my coat and I said jokingly "Well, it's either that or you'll be smelling me for the whole car ride"
His response: "oh, I get to SMELL you, do I?". gross. Obviously I meant that I would get smelly from sweating in my down coat.

The whole way home from work today I felt filthy and angry. I realise that he is just a buffoon without any sense of how a female coworker should be treated, but I am SO disturbed by his sexual jokes about me. I do not need to conjure up the nightmarish images of his mental images in my mind. And why in the HELL would he assume that I would find them funny?

I am a young woman, in love with my boyfriend and certainly not showing ANY sort of sexual motives toward this increasingly repulsive Homo habilis.

The only other time I felt like this was when I was victim to my roomate's David-Suzuki-like boyfriend roaming our apartment in his *shudder* nakedness. The vision still haunts me.

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