long story short, I work in a small and fairly toxic organisation, mostly remote. Have posted elsewhere that I’m being made redundant and, financial impact aside, it’s a huge relief.
Due to poor leadership, a female colleague has been left running things, without additional pay or recognition. She will be promoted in the new financial year and join the senior leadership team. Have just learned that a male member of leadership routinely jokes about how many children she has, that she ‘pops another one out every couple of years’, that kind of thing. For context, she hasn’t ever taken maternity leave in this job. He also makes jokes about her weight and her discomfort at photos that have been used on our website.
She wants to make sure this stops when she is in a similarly senior role and I’ve advised her to set out everything he’s said in writing, so he can see how bad it looks and that she’s not forgotten it, and tell him it stops now. But the more I think about it, the more mad I feel on her behalf.
Just wondering what others think.