Manager not taking sexual harassment seriously because I'm a guy!

Do you know if there's any CCTV in that room?? Tell the police - thats just disgusting and you're very young - shame on that woman

It could've easily been classed as paedophilia or something if it was a man against a 15 year old girl.

Do you know if there's any CCTV in that room?? Tell the police - thats just disgusting and you're very young - shame on that woman

It could've easily been classed as paedophilia or something if it was a man against a 15 year old girl.

op is jenny hot?

As part of my bronze DofE award I'm doing a 6 month volunteering scheme at a local charity shop. I was in charge of cleaning and generally making the store look nice but now I've been moved to the back where I sort out the donated items.
There's another woman there who does the same job, and she's really weird. Let's call her Jenny. At first she was just nice and chatty, but then she started making really inappropriate comments. The first time was when I wore skinny jeans (admittedly, very skinny) and she looked at me for ages, then laughed and said 'with the size of that bulge you won't have trouble with the ladies'. I can't even tell you how uncomfortable that made me feel.
I let it slide, just thinking she was being inappropriate without realising, but she made multiple comments like that, always saying how I'm handsome and blowing me kisses (ok, it sounds like I'm bragging, but trust me, it was creepy not flattering). So I told my manager, who said she'd look into it. The next time I went to work my manager said that it was ok, Jenny had just been joking but she was going to stop now. Which she did...for about a week.
Then she started up again with really blatant comments, asking me if I was a virgin, asking me if I went for 'cougars'...then the other day she said something REALLY inappropriate while touching my thigh, I won't say what but I completely freaked out and ran out of the room and straight up to my manager and told her what happened. She told me to lighten up, she alrready established Jenny was just joking around, and I said 'this isn't a joke, it's sexual harassment'. And you know what she said? 'Only women can be sexually harassed.' WTF?! I was literally IN TEARS at this point, never mind the fact that Jenny is in her 30s and I'm only FIFTEEN, so how is this a 'joke' and not harassment? My manager said Jenny's been volunteering for years, she's a 'part of the team', not a bad person.

Here's the thing - I would just leave and forget all about it, but it's part of my DofE and it's too late to start volunteering at another place (my manager said she wouldn't sign my book if I left over this so it's not like I can just pick up the extra 2 months at another place). I said I'd go to the police about it (admittedly that was a bluff), but my manager said that it would be my word (a child's) against Jenny's (a 'well established member of the community) and she'd fire me if I told anyone. I'm leaving school this year and I've already paid for my DofE expedition and equipment, and if you're not a student at the school you can't do an expedition so it's not like I could just do it next year. I know it seems like a lot of fuss over DofE but I really want this on my CV as I'm not going to uni. What in God's name do I do?!

what, she's hot and throwing herself at you and you say no, that's most boys dreams lol. If she's hot just flirt back....you could get money out of her as well as sex lol.

what, she's hot and throwing herself at you and you say no, that's most boys dreams lol. If she's hot just flirt back....you could get money out of her as well as sex lol.

But I don't want to. Why does whether she's hot or not have anything to do with it? Her advances are unwanted and she knows it.

Record it and go to the police please...this is not a small matter, you're a child..

Actually that's something I hadn't considered, thank you

Lmao this appears to be quite common. I volunteered at a charity shop around 3 years ago and the woman there also made a couple of "jokey", sexually inappropriate comments about me, but she had the sense to not cross the line and take it too far. What is it with all these older women at charity shops?