Alli Peck recounts emailing HR about difficulties with her manager, describing the situation as a hostile work environment. HR (a woman) called the allegation 'very serious'; Alli later looked up the legal meaning of a hostile work environment and thought HR might be legally required to act to avoid liability.
I emailed them and I said, I'm having trouble with my manager. I feel like I'm in a hostile work environment. It's really tough to do my job. I feel like he doesn't trust me. Can you please help? And they called me into the office, their HR office, and they said it was a woman. And she said, this is a very serious allegation. And I thought, what? I looked it up later. Hostile work environment. I think HR has to legally do something about that. If an employee claims that they're being subjected to a hostile work environment, because if they didn't, then I could have sued them, I guess.
Change Your Career Without Leaving Your Job: Podcast Episode with Darcy Eikenberg
