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Female Firefighter Complained About Porn Hung Up In Fire House, Was Sexually Harassed In Retaliation
A Jacksonville firefighter is suing the city after she says her coworkers harassed and demeaned her for months in retaliation for filing a complaint about pornography in the firehouse, local news channels reported Thursday.
Lieutenant Candice Buckner first complained to the fire chief and other city officials about the “volume of sexually explicit and pornographic materials, and inappropriate behaviors, in the fire station” in the summer of 2012, according to the lawsuit. She was the only woman on her shift and one of two female firefighters at Station One from the spring of 2012 to July 2013, when she was finally transferred to another station.
In February of last year, Buckner’s suit says, a male lieutenant named Dobson “approached Lieutenant Buckner and stated that Buckner’s teenage daughter would soon be of legal age for some fireman to ‘f—.’ Buckner told Dobson to knock it off, and he grabbed her arm, spun her around, and repeated his comment.” The two pushed each other, and Dobson continued harassing Buckner while Battalion Chief Neal White looked on and “did nothing to mitigate or stop the incident,” Buckner’s suit alleges. Later, White promised other Station One firefighters that he would get rid of Buckner “if it’s the last thing I do.”
The situation deteriorated from there, with coworkers trying to freeze Buckner out by not speaking to her at all, referring to her as a “crazy bitch” and “piece of p—-” among themselves, telling other men in the house to stick to the same story denying the harassment had occurred if department higher-ups asked about it, and nitpicking her uniform and work performance in ways that “no other personnel were subjected to,” the suit alleges.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/08/21/3474000/female-firefighter-sexual-harassment/
Lieutenant Candice Buckner first complained to the fire chief and other city officials about the “volume of sexually explicit and pornographic materials, and inappropriate behaviors, in the fire station” in the summer of 2012, according to the lawsuit. She was the only woman on her shift and one of two female firefighters at Station One from the spring of 2012 to July 2013, when she was finally transferred to another station.
In February of last year, Buckner’s suit says, a male lieutenant named Dobson “approached Lieutenant Buckner and stated that Buckner’s teenage daughter would soon be of legal age for some fireman to ‘f—.’ Buckner told Dobson to knock it off, and he grabbed her arm, spun her around, and repeated his comment.” The two pushed each other, and Dobson continued harassing Buckner while Battalion Chief Neal White looked on and “did nothing to mitigate or stop the incident,” Buckner’s suit alleges. Later, White promised other Station One firefighters that he would get rid of Buckner “if it’s the last thing I do.”
The situation deteriorated from there, with coworkers trying to freeze Buckner out by not speaking to her at all, referring to her as a “crazy bitch” and “piece of p—-” among themselves, telling other men in the house to stick to the same story denying the harassment had occurred if department higher-ups asked about it, and nitpicking her uniform and work performance in ways that “no other personnel were subjected to,” the suit alleges.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/08/21/3474000/female-firefighter-sexual-harassment/
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I dunno if they're actually too stupid to be able to figure out that the men who dominate those fields do their utmost to ensure that the women who try to enter those fields are dissuaded from doing so, or if they're just playing dumb to try to get sympathy from gullible morons.
