Sometimes its not even overtly sexual, but sexist. And it is irritating.

My first day, the building security officer attempted to escort me to the financial company upstairs, and was befuddled when I said that no, I was a recent hire by the construction firm on the main level.

Same morning, one of the project managers I’d not met yet joked about “why is the receptionist sitting in the back?”. Um, because I’m not the receptionist, I’m not in payroll, I’m not in AR/AP…but I am in your department?

Thankfully, they’re one-of incidents and all has been well since.

They said “Run!! There are no other jobs in this one-horse town; as soon as you buy a house, the boss knows he owns you, and the work will just increase…”

I took their advice.

Sounds like “unlimited” vacation policy– contingent on manager prior approval (a year in advance), and your flexibility to cover issues that arise during vacation.

“As I greeted the Senior Manager set to interview me , he said before we get started would you mind getting me some coffee? he asks me to get coffee, mind you this was was a Senior Manager position opening ….”

You should all listen to the podcast “Tip Not Included”

Oh yes! I interviewed at a major technology company where I was in front of a panel of women and one man. After a grueling quizzing of experience and technological questions from the women, we were about done when the male panelist asked me (female), “If you were a pancake in a stack, would you prefer to be on the top or the bottom.”
There is a 1% chance that the panelist had some lame psychological reason to ask that, but I’m 99% sure that his tone wanted me to answer the innuendo. I said that was a strange questions and I didn’t know how to answer it. I didn’t get the job, not that I would have taken it.

Yes. It would have been.

I was thinking that as well. LOTS of people actually DO have a problem working for a woman. In that case, it would have been reasonable to find out why she asked that.