#MeToo 

Someone told me right off the bat that "HR isn't there for you, they're there for the company" I work for the State, a union bureaucratic type gig, and it's all the same. The worst part of it all is realizing this is how so many places of businesses operate that switching jobs probably won't fix things

Your attorney is full of shit. I got harassed exextremely bad by an employer I only worked there for 6 mo. I settled for $205k

I'm sorry you had to go through that. It's so gross that this kind of crap just gets left to happen. That guy talking about the little girl utterly disgusted me and frankly that should have gotten him on a bloody legal watch list. Edit: Honestly, the more I listen to this story the more I think you need to name and shame this company. Dunno if you guys have a local equivalent to something like "Hello Peter". It's a site where people review their experience with companies.

This story is horrifying. All workers deseserve so much better.

THank you for sharing this story. It took courage. Plus like you said, sharing your story will help others going through a similar situation.

I have had so many awful work experiences I have had managers yell at me and intimidate me I have found out after being fired that employees were making fun of me and rude comments for being trans it’s absolutely disgusting how awful people can be employed and get away with this behavior

Humans really sicken me. I was worried about Ai but they might do better. I hope those jerks lose their jobs first.

The first LGBTQ+ "charity" was vile for what they did.

If the bathroom thing happened to me, it would simply shatter me and all ability to continue working there. I would probably never set foot on company grounds again. I hate to pull the "you're a trooper" card when you were actually being victimized, but damn, dude. You have patience, courage, and diligence beyond my scope of comprehension. You did every single thing by the book and it's not your fault that, unfortunately, capitalism punishes anyone who dares to rock the boat. You didn't deserve any of this; thank you for being vulnerable with your story, I'm sure there are many people who work in a toxic office culture who can relate and maybe still be able to take away some advice from the steps you took to defend yourself.

I am so sorry this happened, the fact that an unofficial backlist exists for workers who refuse to take abuse is appalling, and I bet is the reason why so many HR workers ignore any problems because you're right. These Companies would lose billions if the world knew. I am so sorry you experienced this and I hope that you either are able to move on from this and are able to find a really great company to work for or that you can find a way to take these people to court for harassment and for blacklisting you if you ever wanted to do that. But for right now, I wish you happiness, and I hope that your channel grows and you are able to make it into a lucrative and more profitable career. It's beautiful that you give a safe space for queer youth. I wish you and your husband so much happiness!

Try for a union job maybe. Corporate culture is stuck in the eighties.

I’m not in the right headspace atm to watch the video but thanks for sharing anyways 🕯💕 have a good day ✨🐾

Even near the beginning, I can tell you that them asking you to commit to working for them until retirement, citing "high turnover", is a HUGE red flag 🚩. To anyone else reading this, if someone tells you that at a job interview, run, don't walk! 🚩🚩🚩 Personally, I think it's creepy enough if an interviewer says that they think of one another as "family". You don't need a family. You need a job! Edit: After listening to this to the end (at my desk job, while doing another task), I feel sickened by what you've described. I have personally experienced willful sexual harassment on a few occasions, and been made a bit wiser by the experience. My "entry level" job was delivering food and I had a co-worker whom I suspect was grooming me to be raped by him. At the time, I was a combination of lonely and naive, which would have made me an ideal victim, I think. Said co-worker was eventually fired for stealing money from the company. My harasser was a charismatic and openly bisexual man who was in an opposite-sex relationship with another co-worker. They were conventionally attractive. He did not check the boxes of the stereotype of the "creepy" guy who does this stuff, but the signs were there. Late at night, he would sometimes threaten to "punch someone in the face" and sometimes he would punch the wall to show his punching technique. One co-worker said that she saw him punch the wall until his knuckles began to bleed. On one occasion, he gave me a task to do and told me that I would have to complete the task or else I would be "punched in the face for real". I never reported any of his behavior or his sexual harassment. I will confess that I was not a perfect victim, and there are things I would do differently, but no one deserved to be treated at work the way he treated me, and I was told after he left that he was doing the same thing to others. I turned forty last week, and in the years after I left that company, I've never experienced anything like it. Looking back, I practically want to go and shake my past self and warn them of how much danger they were in every day. Capitalism is a hell of a drug; we were all there because we needed to make a living, and the fat tips you'd sometimes get from delivering food made it feel worthwhile at the time. All of you here, folks of all ages and genders, I urge you to carefully listen to what "Powered by Rainbows" is saying. This kind of stuff sounds so unbelievable that it couldn't happen, but it does. The story in this video is absolutely believable to me. Thank you for sharing and I hope everyone will take your words under advisement! You'd think that capitalism would demand that an employee who signs millions of dollars of business to a company should be protected, but that's not how some people work. It's cronyism and power and office politics. (See also: "Bullshit Jobs")

Hope you’re doing better now,Professor…

This is horrible and I'm so sorry it happened to you. I really appreciate you speaking up about this. Too many people don't understand how those behaviors are not ok and don't understand the damage they can cause.

I appreciate you speaking out about this since not enough gay/bi men do. Both in terms of when this happens in queer spaces and also non queer spaces like in this case (I. E. part of the larger stigma facing men in general when they discuss this)

A lot of times, HR is complicit in toxic work culture. They don’t actually want to do their jobs because if they have to handle these sorts of problematic employees, then it “makes them look bad”. They’d rather shove it under the rug and force ppl to sign ndas.

Its really sad the state of things in work culture. Your experience is becoming more apparent its the rule not exception

I want to say a massive well done to you for finding the courage to speak out about this, I've never been in the situation myself but have heard from many people who have been how difficult it is to talk about it. I'm so sorry you had to go through all of this but I'm very happy to hear how supportive your husband has been through it all

I'm so sorry all of this happened to you, dude. I hope you're in a better place mentally and emotionally now. I'm just a message away if you need me, and I will personally vouch for you in case you need a reference. You've been a tremendous help to me over the years, it's only fair that I do the same to help you. -Burning Earth Chris

What good are all of these laws and policies if no one does anything to enforce them?? And what good are lawyers if they can't pursue a very important claim to protect people against harassment unless it has a big monetary pay out?? I'm sure there really isn't anything you can do about all this since it doesn't sound like any of these issues were "extreme" enough to warrant police intervention or something, but it all still feels pretty criminal to me. My only recommendation is seeing if you can work someplace with a union since then you will at least have them to turn to if anything bad happens again.

PLEASE take care of yourself, love 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ i went through something similar recently

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Omg that is horrible I hope u are doing better and I wish that people took this more seriously than they do I was diagnosed with ptsd from where I used to work due to similar issues I really hope u know are loved and that it’s not ok

Iam so so soo Sorry that this happend to you. This is Truly Unbelivable, i hope it gets better somehow in any way, shape or form. Its Disturbing to hear what happend and that they never got any consecoenses for their action. Sometimes i Wish we would Live in another World because this one is so Unbelivably Crual. I cant bring into Words how Sorry i feel for you. Maybe your Channel Grows throught this Video so that u can Contribute better :c, i truly wish u the best.

I'm so sorry that happened, Matt. I hope you can find a really much better job really soon so you can start building for the other things you want. Take care

Honestly, really brave for still having the comments on under this video. I know that male presenting people are usually harassed when doing this kind of video (sadly)

Please tell me this wasn't a CoreLogic /Marshall, Swift, Boeker - or associated insurance company! As soon as you mentioned property insurance, my brain went into overdrive. I won't say why, at this time, but I will say that I believe M/S/B - aka CoreLogic may also be breaking a few Anti-trust laws as well. The "Training" you mentioned, although I know thousands of companies employee these, just sounded too familiar.

Wow I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. What happened to you is not right! I'm so sorry,I hope you are doing ok today. We appreciate you and understand your situation. Keep being you!

Oh, this is disgusting...reminds me of my mom's coworkers. They had corn posters in the changing rooms, and the previous manager was only muted instead of fired when he broke 2 of a patient's fingers. Oh and they bullied her for years until she just couldn't find the strength to come back and she got fired. Don't ask me how she's doing now, I'm just being metoo.. I know (personally, as in friends and family) 7 people who got r*ped =] I only counted because I thought it was the tenth one and that drove me crazy so I'm glad it's actually 7 instead of 10. hahaaa..society is deranged.

“Develop a dope ass super power and when I use it it’ll have all the dudes scared like the #metoo movement” -Ray William Johnson 2018 it’s from the song Fred Astaire 1 and it could be considered a gay anthem

To everyone. RULE # 1: always cover your azz. Idc how much you love them, Idc how much you trust them, Cover your azz. Maybe it's my trauma speaking but my trauma And trust issues saved my azz many times. My Ex tried to frame me for stealing for something of theirs. And I loved and trusted them but if I didn't cover my azz they probably would have gotten away with it. And when I say frame me I mean more like to blackmail me into what they wanted me to do. Always cover your azz. Have receipts and have back up for theos to. Especially when you work with other people. Take screan shots of everything. Keep meticulous notes of what people say. And if at all possible get evidence of it to. And always leave away out.

I'm sorry you went through this, and trust me I did watch the entire video. But halfway through, I started rolling my eyes, after your move to a different cubicle. That's when I thought of you as being overly sensitive. I have active hearing too, and have to force myself, not to listen to the conversations around me. You kept your head down, but you were also taking notes, not once did you mention to the people around, that you didn't need to hear such things. You at least have the opportunity to wear headphones. Sure, you have to learn how to get along, but with my current situation, I have to be strictly business with my coworkers, just to mitigate any rumors. You had a bad trainer, but also came into an existing office culture. And about the bathroom come on, couldn't you at least stand up for yourself? No, means NO! And if you keep getting hit up on, that's actually sexual harassment. You avoided the issue, even went to a different floor's restroom. I'm not defending what others say in the workplace, but you can't change an office's culture running to HR. I'm speaking from experience, as a previously gay office worker, to trans woman warehouse worker. I wish I could have stayed in my field of expertise, but had to take what I could find.

Really sorry that you're in this situation, but in the twisted world of HR and a company's self protection, it all makes sense. HR is there to serve the company and it's best interest and unfortunately it's almost always the complaining employee who is punished, rather than the person responsible for the damage. This state of behaviour is wrong on every level. morally, ethically and legally. The catch is: You need to be aware of this, but no one ever tells you. Your first response should be to quietly find another job and just write them off... Karma is a very long acting force, but eventually the people involve suffer for their actions and words. You'll may never know it, but it will happen because they will do/say the wrong thing to the wrong person eventually, and a door will close for them with, or without, their knowledge

That's disturbing man hope ya get better that's really all I can say tbh

Take your time

Sad but be fine ❤

I love you Matt. WE love you. I hope, no I know that you, Matt, and your husband, can find a house one day, that you can get that property, that you adopt a wonderful dog, and I know that yand your husband will make great parents. I know your future adopted kid will feel accepted and loved by you regardless of whether they're queer, goodluck, and much love from a fellow queer

Crooked company.

Sounds like you were too good at your job and nobody liked it.

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You and your husband are such a cute couple ❤🎉

To those who have actually been sexually abused, you have my deepest condolences and I hope your life gets better from here on. To those who use false allegations of SA through things like #MeToo and other means to ruin people’s lives forever, you can suffer exceptionally. Sexually abusing someone is wrong. Falsely accusing someone of any kind of sexual abuse is wrong. Victim blaming is especially wrong.

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