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Personal Narrative: Anna Howard's Incident

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Anna Howard commenced employment at Marcus Hair Affair at the start of May. She was an apprentice hairdresser. Whilst she is still employed she does not feel comfortable returning to work. Throughout the course of May she received numerous unappropriate sexual comments, gestures, unwarranted physical contact of a sexual nature that made her extremely uncomfortable. Early March on a Tuesday at 2'oclock in the afternoon he sat next to her on the couch, put her arm around the shoulder and kissed her on the cheek. Anna establishes it was the first time he touched and she informed him she wasn’t looking for a relationship and was just here for work. Later that day at 3.30pm he came up to her and put his hand on her thigh and asked her if she liked sex. She asked what that had to do with anything? She told him she was just here for work to which he apologised for offending her. That week on the Friday, after her co-worker had left, Marcus pulled her down on the couch by her waist asking her to sit with him, which she struggled against. Anna is still uncomfortable talking about the incidient but states that she went home straight after. …show more content…

He unzipped his jeans displaying his green unerwear whilst grabbing Anna's hand and pulling her towards him as if he wanted her to touch him. He asked if she wanted to "watch some sex on the computer" and she ran out. The following Monday whilst she was at Tafe in the cafetaeria he called out to her, "Hey Sexy" and pinched her at the waist. This left Anna feeling sick that it had continued outside of work. After this she made a complaint to the counselllor at a Tafe and she was refferred to the doctor. Marcus behaviour has contributed to Anna having nightmares and suicidal thoughts which has prompted her being put on anti-depressants. She is unable to comfortably return to

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