During an interview, one of the owners started to come onto me. At first, it was light comments “you’re very intelligent…and beautiful” but it quickly escalated to inappropriate physical contact such as reaching for my hands, footsie under the table and plainly saying “I wish you were coming back to my hotel room with me.” Other comments made me feel uncomfortable and although this happened, I remained polite while maintaining boundaries. I took the job as it was an amazing opportunity and where I was in my career, I felt I could not have passed up the opportunity.
As a woman, I felt insecure, unintelligent and easy…I felt I was only offered the job because of my looks. I feel like I am always second guessing my work now and that I don’t actually belong as I was offered the job because of my looks not my abilities.