There is a new Lowes going in close to us, and my 22 YO daughter will be working there when it open next month. She’ll be working in the tool crib 🙂 For the 3-4 weeks preceeding the opening of the new store, all the employees are brought in to help assemble shelves and stock product. Story too long for here, but it’s a neat concept. Anyway, she was in the tool crib today unpacking boxes, and the Bosch rep made a pass at her. Really pissed her off. Me too. She didn’t go into details about what he said, but it must have been in poor taste if it offended her that much. She told the store manager later, and he’s going to talk with the rep. He also made an announcement at an employee meeting, without mentioning names, and said for anyone to report that sort of behavior.
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It would piss me off too. I'd find out who the guy is, then make my way to his supervisor. They need to know what kind of behavior he's exhibiting when he's representing their company. Could be that they're just waiting for some more complaints to come in so they can fire the guy or something.
Call it "effective complaining". But don't keep quiet about it.
Everybody has a boss. The sales guy has a boss and his boss has a boss. Bosch as a corporate body probably would prefer being represented by people who don't draw the ire of the people that are actually on the sales floor. Your daughters feelings about the Bosch representative could very well be transferred to the product itself.
An e-mail to Bosch corporate public relations explaining the situation, if it is followed up, might just filter down to the representative with the wandering eyes and foul mouth. I don't know if this is the right site but I think that if you contact these people they can probably direct you to the right person.
http://www.bosch-presse.de/TBWebDB/en-US/index.cfm
Maybe there is a US office. I wouldn't worry about the language. This is a German site. Most Germans seem to have a better understanding of english than most Americans. Give it a try. It might not accomplish anything but it would, if I was in your place, feel good to unload.
Having the guys name and the store number would probably help track the letch down. A note from on high, stranger things have happened, might rattle his cage and save someone else's daughter the trouble.
in the '60s they used to call harassment "flirting"
Some of those old song lyrics can sound pretty creapy if you think of them as being said to a stranger.
I think that if someone oversteps the bounds once that can be bad taste/poor judgement. If they do it again then that's harassment. If they do it from a position of power then that's even worse.
But our culture is made up of so many little ones mixed together that it can be hard for a person to know what is appropriate and what is not. And boys and girls do need to get together some how...
good luck with your issue, I hope it works out for you and your daughter. I also hope that people don't make a big deal out what could have been just a dumb mistake by a dorky guy.
predators = bad
dorky guys = stupid/unlucky (ugly, etc.)
Elcid72,
Tell the Bosch guy that your daughter will file harrassment charges unless he agrees to 'settle' for one Bosch of every flavor.
Is that Elcid like in the Citadel? My bros' class of 83.
Class of '72. That's back when we had a real knob system (your brother can explain that).
What gets my goat with the Bosch guy is that he made this comment within the first hour of meeting my daughter, so he had absolutely no idea what her marital status is, or anything else. For those of you who don't have daughters: the jokes can be funny, but not when it's about your little girl.
Good thing I got married! I used to flirt with girls all the time.....at work....off work......on the way too and from work....then there's the whole weekend thing.
Don't get me started about back in school. Think the first time was kindergarden......
Pretty sure this is how I met my wife.......and it sounds like a good thing I did....'cause looks like I'd be fired and arrested by now!
I'm thinking there's no reason to mention Bosch either....they probably don't train their reps to do this. Jeff "That's like hypnotizing chickens........."
This is a shame. Be sure to let us know how it turns out. Bosch makes some excellent tools, I hope you find better people farther up the chain in that company.
-- J.S.
Hey my Bro set a record for demerits! He marched the quad for many, many hours.
Remember that little string and ladder trick from "The Lords of Discipline"? That might be a good trick for Mr Bosch.
Please allow me to clarify.
I am not recommending that the salesman be fired or this become a federal case. A gentle nudge from on high might just get him to snap too and take people, and his job, seriously.
Being a daughter of a tradesman, no offence to us working folks but our women are pretty tough and don't easily take offence, I assume that normal flirting wouldn't cause her alarm. So this would have to be considerably stronger than the normal flirting. If I had a daughter, I don't, I would not want her exposed to such things.
I don't know if Bosch will respond. It would be heartening and great advertising if they would.