Cultural

Expectations.

"A House oversight committee’s summary of its hearings on the agency in April was scathing: “As a result of a chilling culture of intimidation and retaliation at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), security gaps go unaddressed, and senior employees are not held accountable for misconduct.”

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Livingston says Bermudez was singled out by Salvator because of her looks. “I think she was more attractive than most,” he says. “He wasn’t doing that to the ugly girls.”

~ https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/she-says-she-was-harassed-by-superiors-now-she-protests-outside-the-tsa-every-day/2016/11/30/4f3316d6-a5e4-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html?utm_term=.0d6a84ff9d38

"He wasn't doing that to the ugly girls." 

SIGH.

SHE IS NOT AN OBJECT FOR YOU TO DEVALUE.

NONE OF THEM ARE.

“It was so surreal," she says. "I was standing by the fax machine. He hung up, and he turned to me — he just kind of blurted it out — he said, ‘That was the main office. They discussed it, and they said you’re too fat and too ugly to represent the company at the show in South Africa.’"

“My heart dropped into my stomach," Teresa continues. "I was so shocked. He immediately started tripping over his words. He said, ‘Maybe the words were more like, unattractive and overweight’ — trying to soften the blow. But he wasn’t apologetic or anything. I wanted to hysterically cry my eyes out, but I didn’t want to show emotion in front of him. I didn’t want him to go back and tell them I had an emotional response to their decision. So I just sucked it up and said okay and went back to my desk.”

~ http://www.refinery29.com/2015/11/97886/workplace-discrimination-sexism-stories#slide-1

"As soon as Teresa left the office that evening, she burst into tears. She cried the whole subway ride back to Brooklyn and then called her sister and cried more. 

“I’ve been an overweight woman my entire life, since I was about six. When I was around 30, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome, and the doctors told me one of the side effects is the extra weight.”

~ http://www.refinery29.com/2015/11/97886/workplace-discrimination-sexism-stories#slide-2

BE A BETTER PERSON.