My job is extremely male dominated and while I enjoy it and my team is great, I’ve had a lot of situations lately where some guy I don’t really know approaches me and asks me to get lunch/coffee/hang out outside of work etc. I’d like to believe it’s just friendly except it doesn’t happen to any of the men I work with and these aren’t people I work with in my job that I have any reason to interact with. This might sound like a silly problem to have but it’s been happening more and more and making me feel pretty uncomfortable at work, especially since I’m already self conscious about being one of the few women in my job. How the hell do I handle this? Even if I make an excuse not to, some of them are persistent. Everyone I work with is male so I don’t really have anyone to go to. To the people commenting about what I wear (which is usually jeans, sneakers and a tshirt or sweatshirt, not trying to avoid this topic) you’re probably part of the problem
Take the mandatory Sexual Discrimination and Harassment training, they will teach you how to sexually discriminate and harass the boy back.
Tell that Elon promised to gift you a horse 🐎 🤠
He might invite her to one of his parties 🥳
Nicely say, “look, not interested, thanks anyway.” He will get the message. If he persists, loop in manager and/or HR. Good luck.
Wear modest clothing. Men are visual beings so dont make it easy for us to sexualize you in our heads. Just politely decline them. If they don’t respect that then you should talk to HR.
Or maybe instead of policing what she wears (which I’m sure is office appropriate to begin with) men need to stop being so creepy and stop sexualizing female coworkers
Put blinders over your eyes ?
Dress up shabby , don’t do your hair (don’t straighten it ), don’t do eyebrows or upper lips. Just kidding. Just be professional and say no if you feel you are being invited just because you are a woman. Let people know your boundaries.
What types of clothes you wear? Heals? Makeup? Nice long hair?
What has that got to do with anything ???
Why are you victim blaming? 😂
You work at SpaceX where the CEO has kids with his employees. Just saying …
True that 🤣🤣
Do you have any genuine, platonic male friends at work whom you could trust to put themselves in between you and the weirdos if they try to escalate things? If they're persisting, you could try being more overt when you repeatedly turn them down; say it so that other coworkers overhear exactly what's going on. The fear of being embarrassed in front of colleague could be a deterrent for men who don't know when to stop.
Say you're hanging out with your boyfriend most nights and any free time is spent rejecting betas around the office.
Wear a wedding ring and say you can’t go
wear a chain ,ring yep second this