I got fired for submitting a s*xual harassment complaint and did nothing about it.
This is long, sorry in advance.
So, first things first, I (34F) work in landscaping. Been doing it seven years so far. I absolutely love the job. Unfortunately, it’s a male dominated field and I am usually the only female or the only female in the field. Most women are in the office.
Anyways! Even though I am 34, I am rather innocent lol there’s a lot of things that go over my head because I don’t have the dirtiest mind.
After a couple weeks at a new landscaping company, I went from being one of five women that had our own sites/routes, to the only woman. Just me. No office women. No women in the field. No women in the shop. Just me. I am curvier. Basically I have wide hips and a juicer ass. After a while of being catcalled every morning for weeks by multiple men, after months of them using the nickname “sexy ass”, being told I’d look nice on a pole (didn’t understand that for a while), that I look good dirty & on my hands and knees, the one comment that got me was being told I should “go skiing” in the backseat of a truck… at the time one guy was driving, one guy riding shot gun, I was in the middle in the back seat, one guy on either side of me. I didn’t know what that meant… I googled. I had enough. I was so over it. So I spoke to my manager in a private meeting about the comments and whistling, and the skiing remark. Well, mister manager went to the specific men making the comments and whistling and told them they were making me uncomfortable, yes he told them my name and that I complained which is hella against the law. After that they all refused to work with me so I couldn’t be assigned to any teams for work. So they dismissed me “without cause” a week later and told me they were “reshuffling” and I wasn’t needed. I know the real reason I was let go. Manager handled the situation extremely poorly. I know I could have done a lot legally and made the company’s life hell but I was just done. I was exhausted. I left with my head held high.
All those guys have been fired since because after me, other women they hired also complained.
Posted Jun 27, 2026, 7:38 AM UTC