bunnings for women [Australian hardware store] A worker has opened up about the relentless sexism she says she faces on the job, saying it makes her feel like a “weak, weak woman”.
Hailey Weber told her TikTok followers that she was “constantly ignored at work.”
The young woman said that when customers have questions, they typically “circumvent” her and “go directly to a male colleague.”
Incredibly, she said her customers often ask her if she can find someone to help them. She automatically assumes that she doesn’t know anything about hardware.
Weber said she didn’t think her customer had any malicious intent, but the situation “turned into a vicious cycle.”
She gave the example of a male customer who needed help removing a 44-pound bag from a high shelf.
Weber said she brought the man a stepladder, but the man insisted he couldn’t carry the bag.
“He said, ‘No, you’re not strong enough,'” she said.
Weber insisted he was strong enough.
“He looked at me like a weak, weak woman who couldn’t stand it. I only weighed 44 pounds, which wasn’t that heavy,” she said.
Chief Human Resources Officer Damian Zahra told news.com.au: “We are really sorry to hear that one of our team members experienced disrespectful behavior. This is not acceptable in our stores. It’s an act.”
“We always encourage our teams to raise any concerns they may have about issues they are facing in the workplace, and we are taking a range of steps to support them,” he said. I did.
