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Monkeypox0104Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
11/30/17 11:29am
I was sexually assaulted (kissed without my consent) by the CEO within a month of starting a job (2 jobs ago). Unfortunately, I was not in the position to quit because I was helping pay my dad’s medical bills as he was slowly dying from multiple organ failure. So I worked there for almost two years and it damn near killed me.
Not only was I assaulted on the job, I was regularly sexually harassed by multiple men in varying positions, from the CFO, to the warehouse guys, and the already mentioned sleazeball CEO. I was also being underpaid, by about $15,000 less than my male peer in the same position (and whose messes I had to clean up all the damn time). I had triple the workload of my fellow project coordinators, and was working close to 60 hours regularly. This place was a toxic mess, and I started drinking on the job. Don’t worry, alcoholism wasn’t frowned upon at all at this place. In fact, drug use and drinking on the clock was pretty much an open practice. It’s how everyone coped with being underpaid, verbally abused, overworked. Alcohol was supplied by the CEO to give the impression that this is a chill workplace, when really, it helped him make the women working there more “pliable”.
Then, my dad died, and I felt completely shattered. Guess how much time off I got to bury my dad and grieve for him? 2 whole days, one of which I had to call in because I was in no position to do anything except cry. After this, I started getting angry and standing up for myself, but I was still grieving, and drinking myself into a black out became a daily occurrence. One day, I drank so much that I woke up in the shower at 3 in the morning with a massive head injury and a serious concussion. I went into work with my bangs over my face to hide what happened, because I still had a punch list meeting at 7 AM with an angry client (another regular occurrence, because this place treated its clients like shit and ripped them off all the time). I think I quit without having a back up job maybe 2 weeks after this, because I could see that I was not going to make it out of this job without some serious scars if I didn’t leave soon.
This was almost 3 years ago, and I still get nervous around my current male co-workers (who have never been anything but respectful, decent human beings to me), and have a panic attack any time I need to ask my boss for time off or for help or approach him with a question. After I quit that job, I worked menial jobs and fell behind on bills, and was working 3 jobs at one point just to make ends meet. I was depressed, suicidal and felt worthless for so long, that I am only just starting to recover. My experience isn’t unique. If anything, I am sure I’m pretty lucky to be where I am today, and other women are still in worse positions. So I can’t really muster up any fucking sympathy for men like Franken or Conyers. I don’t care about your pain because you didn’t give two shits about the humanity of the women you sexually harassed/groped/assaulted. You didn’t care about the pain that they would have to deal with. You can deal with the consequences of the decisions you chose to make as grown ass men, because your victims have been dealing with them in silence in pain and suffering for years.
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  You are what you sayMonkeypox0104
  11/30/17 11:37am
  Damn that’s really fucked up I wish I could say something to make you feel better.
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  Monkeypox0104You are what you say
  11/30/17 11:41am
  Thanks, love. I still consider myself lucky because hey, at least I wasn’t full on raped, right? And I’m also lucky because I have an amazing job with a great company now, and I’ve surrounded myself with good people I can trust. I am luckier than most, and really grateful for it.
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Not Enough Day DrinkingStephen A. Crockett Jr.
11/30/17 10:43am
I was listening to NPR on the way into work this morning and they the CBC whip Rep. Gwen Moore on. She wouldn’t call for him to resign, but she went out of her way to make sure he knew how hard it was going to be for him in the ethics committee.
Paraphrasing: ‘I don’t envy him’ ‘I’d hate to be in his shoes,’ ‘it’s his prerogative to fight it, but I wouldn’t,’ ‘ yes, I believe the allegations are credible.’
I think he’s done one way or the other. Retiring for medical reasons would probably be the path of least resistance.
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MisterMcGibbletsStephen A. Crockett Jr.
11/30/17 10:44am
If he’s so feeble that he can be laid low by a “media assault,” maybe he’s not equipped to be legislating the boundaries of hundreds of millions of lives.
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Ugh.Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
11/30/17 10:52am
Dude’s a scumbag, by all accounts.
That said, I have a deep urge to pluck that errant eyebrow hair!
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Archaeyopterix MajorusStephen A. Crockett Jr.
11/30/17 11:07am
Can we agree the aging black man who announced on MSNBC (maybe NBC?) that Conyers was in the hospital is a werewolf? He’s totally a fucking werewolf, man. That majestic full head of graying hair, the wonderful gray beard and moustache, sideburns, and, my GOD, his incisors... They are positively WOLVERINE-like. The man has GOT to be a werewolf. Anybody got an image cap??
Sam Riddle, the man mentioned. Dude’s a fucking werewolf.
Anyone find a better close up of his incisors? They’re fucking amazing.
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Alexander Crouton-SkitchStephen A. Crockett Jr.
11/30/17 11:37am
Matt Lauer touched him, too? Will this madness never end?
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