I attended our team meal last night - the usual meal/drinks afterwards. We are a big corporate company; the team I’m specifically on is a mix of ages and genders and everyone generally gets along quite well. We’ve got a vacancy due to someone retiring and it’s being advertised at the moment. Discussion was had between myself and two male colleagues - essentially ‘wonder whether it will be someone internal of external brought in’
The following exchange went along these lines:
Colleague 1 - I just hope they are fit
Colleague 2 - yeah, we need some younger blood. Blonde hair, boobs, tight little arse.
Colleague 1 - bit of eye candy, makes the day go faster
Me - I don’t think that’s how the company recruit people
Colleague 2 - manager name will look after us, he knows what we want (laughter between them both)
Me - Sorry, but that’s really not appropriate is it
Colleague 1 - if it was a good looking bloke you’d all be creaming your knickers so don’t give me that sort of attitude (laughter again)
Colleague 2 - Yeah, we know what you lot are like- dirty old women.
I told them I was uncomfortable at this point and I joined another group. After discussing this was a colleague earlier, she encouraged me to submit a HR report as for me, a line was crossed.
They are early 30’s and old enough to know better - one of them is married with kids.
Would you have done the same?