Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Did I open a can of worms?

I had a full day of harassment in the workplace training today. By the afternoon I had heard enough to realize that my co-worker has been personally harassing me for years and it was time to speak up!

I have approached my boss about this a few times. She always told me to get a thicker skin and that he's just joking.

He did something else to pick on me last week. That was the last straw! I wrote a formal complaint letter to my boss and cc'd her boss as well in my email. She wrote back basically telling me to forget about it. I talked to her boss the next day and he told me to be the bigger person and just ignore him. Huh? No punishment for his lousy behaviour? they just blame me for bringing it up? What the @#$%???

So I told this Human Rights lawyer (the one doing the workshop) all this at today's workshop. She was appalled and told me that she HAD to start an investigation based on the fact that my two bosses were basically ignoring my real complaints about a genuine lack of respect from this co-worker.

So she will start the process of finding out what's going on. I have to get as much paper work as possible to back up my story. That's no problem because I always keep paper work. What I am worried about is whether or not any of this is even worth it. I don't want to get anyone fired but I also don't feel like my two head bosses should have ignored and down played my complaints about my co-workers very disrespectful behaviour towards me.

All I can think of is the three people involved hating me for this and trying to somehow get me fired for this. I hate my job but do not have a new one to go to. I can't afford to get fired but to me THEY are in the wrong and need to be told to smarten up. NOT ME!

What do you guys think. What a day I've had! OY!

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