To be frightened of this massively sexually inappropriate man from eon

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The meter reader just came round and I'm really frightened and horrified by what he said - I was in kitchen washing up so could hear eveything he was saying to DP.. Went like this
'ooh I tell you what you'd love this job, sometimes you get 25 year olds in towels.. This bird the other day was reallllly impressive big boobs gesture and I saw eeeeverything she just slipped her towel phwoooar'

then..

'and one time I was checking a meter in a cupboard- this 25 year old blonde is stood right behind me and I could see riiiight up her skirt, pink knickers and everything- wish I had a hidden camera harharhar'

I'm just utterly utterly disgusted and worried, dp often works away for weeks at a time - there's no way I can let him in if I'm on my own.
Wanker.

Sounds like an utter twat but I doubt you need to be frightened. This kind of git is (if you will excuse the phrase) "all mouth and no trousers"!! Def complain though - its totally yuck and inappropriate. Sleaze bag!!

What did eon say when you complained?

Ohhhh I misread it! I thought it was directed at the OP. In which case calling on DH to appear on his white charger would have been daft. But not so. Oops! Sorry OP

He didn't say it to you. He didn't offer to give you a quick one upstairs or request that you strip off. It doesn't sound like he used any particularly offensive words. So I wouldn't describe him as massively sexually inappropriate and frightening, I think that is an over-reaction.

Feel free to complain - yes it isn't very professional to talk like this in people's homes and it is sexist. You don't feel comfortable with him in your home, fair point, so don't let him in, give a telephone reading instead.

Also, whilst we are on the subject of sexism, why exactly should the OP's DH have told him to stop it when I assume she has a voice of her own?

Because she wasn't in the room at the time, I would say.

What did the company say when you called them?

Bingtata
It isn't exactly sexism, it is exactly geography...

Perhaps the OP hasn't got through on the phone yet. She may have been waiting eons

I disagree - she clearly overheard it, word for word, so was not that far away. I'm not saying she should have said something, I appreciate that both the OP and her DH may have been dumbstruck, but that there was no more onus on her DH than her to tell eon man that this was not acceptable in their home.

Although I do like the bad joke pagwatch.

She says she saw ;'big boob ' gesture too.I don't know what your problem is OP I think you're being a bit precious really.He was just having a blokey chat and probably didn't even know you could hear.Do you really not think most young men talk to each other about stuff like this?

God, I wouldn't have thought so, katiestar. And they aren't young anyway.

I´d also be wondering why the chap would think my husband would be interested in such a conversation.

maybe her h is a goer as she hasnt got

so you werent there
the comments werent to you or about you
you couldnt see ANy gesturing
but you are offended?

more likley cross your h discussed it

Of course it was inappropriate, is it supposed to be OK if the comments were addressed to a man and the woman in the house wasn't supposed to hear? People going into other's homes for work should be professional and keep conversation relevant to what they are doing.

"He was just having a blokey chat and probably didn't even know you could hear."

People working in direct contact with the public, and especially people like meter readers who have access to our homes, should not be indulging in 'blokey chats'. When doing their job they should be extremely polite to everyone in the house and get on with it.

I wonder if the OP ever made her complaint....

I'd be about this type of conversation in my earshot but tbh, IF what he said does happen, well more power to him. I am more inclined to believe that he is starting the believe the story lines of the cheap porn movies he watches.

I worked for Eon eons ago. Infact, before they were Eon and a woman wrote in to complain because the meterman came when she was still in her dressing gown and said, "Still in your dressing gown Lazybones?" I can only imagine he was trying to tease her affectionately but his gesture rubbed her the wrong way. Similarly this guy probably thought he could have a blokey chat with a bloke, not thinking it may offend the Mrs.