Thin Privilege is not working in a law office and getting shit every day by the uppity terribly bitchy woman coworkers because you’re fat/not actively dieting and it leads to you putting in your two weeks.

I had the wonderful opportunity of gaining an (after gradation/bad luck finding my career) job that a good friend offered me. It wasn’t going to lead me anywhere but they had good benefits like ½ paid vacation and bonuses on big cases won. Only doing 30hrs a week I thought I was coming into a welcoming environment where I would be valued because well… I am organizing all the files. Every single damn file goes through me, and people work together to get their cases won right?

I started getting treated differently after a few weeks. It really was plain discrimination from the start, I now realize. Some women would talk about me in a different language (they didn’t realize I knew some of it) and the 2 lawyer women who recently passed the bar and are HIGH AND MIGHTY would just glare at me and for some reason give me extra files to organize. I found out later from others that they talked about me. They would make fun of what I was wearing, my tattoos, my choice of wear, myself…. The receptionist was also new and they started doing it to her too. They would make sure she was always busy, and if they saw her talking to anyone they would give her shit. I was so thankful they couldn’t see me. I would come into the office and just feel like shit. It was getting to the point where the entire office was/is divided; staff vs. lawyers. There was an all out mutiny brewing. It was because of us and we didn’t get why the lawyer girls didn’t like us?! Here was the kicker… I got my now new job and started working 20 hours. I came into the office later and one day I came in to eat lunch with everyone like I used to. I ate and then decided to start going to work since I only had 4 hours to finish the calendars files. As I was heading out I saw my good friend and talked to her for a while. Turns out while I was catching up with my friend the lawyer ladies went into the lunch room to talk (something they rarely do since they don’t like us commoners) and proceeded to ask everyone about my new hours. When they found I would be working later on in the day and perhaps weekends one says “Well I guess I’ll have to lock my door from now on.” I wasn’t told this was said right away. I heard it from my pal the receptionist. I cried that day. Not only because she was discriminating against me, or thinking I would steal from her cause I look like a thief, but that I did everything she asked of me, and I never did anything for her to dislike me the way she did. I cried to my boss and they promised a mass staff meeting since the receptionist was experiencing a lot of shit from everybody also… but instead of one where we all talk it out it was going to be two different ones, one for the lawyers and one for the staff. They had the lawyer one but never did the staff one. So nothing got solved and heading to work was becoming more miserable every day.

I finally put in my two weeks. It was a mix of starting a new job (one capable of me doing both jobs) and their negative, hateful energy. The lawyer bitches finally admitted to someone that they disapproved of us as beings… They didn’t like that we weren’t participating in the weight loss program at work for the vacation, and they didn’t like seeing our fat asses. They treated us newbies like shit and now they’re losing us. I wanted to keep going for my good friend and the other lawyers (men) who really were completely nice and enjoyable to be around, but there was too much bad outweighing the good. So Now I’m working this last week out and hoping nothing else happens to make me cry.