Now she can't get a job here because she can't pee standing up.
One potential employer dragged his knuckles over and told her straight out:
"He said: 'I'm not having a 20-something-year-old girl running around here getting the attention from all the guys and creating problems with their wives and problems with my wife. So I'm not hiring any women,'
Dude, if your marriage is that shaky, I recommend immediate intense counselling or divorce.
What I find to be most appalling is the fact that he said it in the first place, and second, that he saw nothing at all wrong with saying it.
Bear in mind, there is supposedly a labour shortage here in the maritimes because the labour force is hemorraging out of the Atlantic to the West in record numbers. This is apparently particularly so in the area of the trades. Believe me, attitudes like that of the git above aren't helping the situation.
Also, other women in the trades warned Melissa against speaking out or complaining because if she did she would never work in the province. Well, since she decided to leave, I guess she decided she had nothing to lose anyway.
Women in the trades have had a tough time of it, and Melissa expected some for sure, but not this blatant, as it is the 21st century after all. While she may not be free of sexism in the west, having a trade that is really, really in demand does grant one some FOAD leverage.
Good Luck, Melissa, Bonne Chance!
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