A lingerie store manager has been applauded for reporting a delivery driver accused of bothering her staff with inappropriate questions.
Footage showed the woman stopping the delivery driver as he left her store in a New Zealand shopping center and telling him his behavior needed to change.
“I want to make something very, very clear,” he told the man, who was not identified in the video.
“There should be no discussion with my team about the products you see, the products you think will look good on you, absolutely nothing.”
The delivery driver said “yes” and tried to leave the store, but the manager reprimanded him again.
“You have to come in, drop off the boxes, put your tablet on the counter, she’ll sign it and you’ll leave,” he said.
The woman shared the video on TikTok and claimed that the man had been bothering his staff and asking them what kind of lingerie they liked.
He also claimed that he had asked workers to play “sex dice” with him.
The manager of a New Zealand lingerie store let a delivery driver know in no uncertain terms that his conduct had been inappropriate.
‘Director of the year!!! Well done love!’ one person wrote.
“I knew he was wrong because he didn’t even try to argue.”
“Thank you for taking care of your staff. I was harassed at work when I was young and my boss criticized me for the whole thing,” another person wrote.
“It’s very heartwarming to see him supporting his staff.”
‘AND THIS IS CALLED A GREAT MANAGER! Great job. I want to work there!’ It was another comment.
Sexual harassment is widespread in Australian retail, according to a study conducted earlier this year by the Australian Center for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work and Australia’s National Women’s Safety Research Organization .
The manager said the delivery driver had been acting inappropriately with the lingerie store staff (file image)
Up to half of women and one in four men working in retail have experienced sexual harassment, including physical contact, sexually suggestive comments and jokes, intrusive questions about their private life or appearance, and staring or sideways glances.
Young women under the age of 25 are highly targeted and often subjected to multiple forms of sexual harassment.
Professor Rae Cooper, director of the Australian Center for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work, said employers have a legal duty to prevent harm to workers from sexual harassment.
“These are not isolated incidents, this happens every day in this huge industry, and young people, especially young women, are hardest hit,” Professor Cooper said.
‘The retail industry is a key national employer of young people, and these workplaces have a duty to protect their inexperienced workers who are often in their first job.
‘Sexual harassment doesn’t just come from customers: colleagues and managers are often the perpetrators. It is omnipresent.’
