Observation Journal # 4

I was at work the other day and a co-worker of mine told me about something sexist that happened to her recently. As one of the few female workers at my job, she was working with a few guys the previous day. One of the guys had told her to go back to her post and stay away from him and another employee for a few minutes. At first she obeyed, but later came back angry and demanded to know what was going on. One employee was showing the other dirty pictures of a girl he had sex with on his camera phone that was half his age. This made the female employee uncomfortable and she left. She reported what she had seen to the supervisor and the two were disciplined.
I think that this was inappropriate for the employees to act like that at work. The two of them were not professional and made the female feel discriminated by making her leave. Even if they had not asked her to leave, it still was not appropriate to conduct themselves that way at work and single out someone because of their sex. If I had been put in the situation, I would have told the male employee to stop what he was doing because I did not want the female to get upset and tell the boss. Something like that at work is too serious to be ignored, especially for my jobs sake.