Having some problems at work.
Hi everyone. I’m a 23 year old woman, and I’m dealing with issues at my work. For context, I work at a small, family owned pool place, so there’s only around 7 people who work there, including me. I’ve worked there for a year now, so it’s not like I’m that new.
Anyway, my coworkers have seemed to have bonded over essentially bullying me. All of them love to gang up on me and mess with me, even my boss does it. They tease me about my looks, my clothes, my hair, whatever they can find. Every single thing about me is questioned and put under a microscope. If I slightly change my appearance at all, I’ll get comments on it. Even how I do my job or what I’m going to have for lunch that day is picked apart.
I’m a relatively small person, I’m 4’11” and pretty skinny, and I’m constantly teased for that too. They make jokes about how I’m not strong enough to lift certain things or how I need to start lifting some weights or eat more.
This is an every day thing. Every. Single. Day. I wore different tennis shoes yesterday, and within 30 seconds of me walking in the door that morning I was getting comments.
It’s really bothering me and getting to me mentally. I can’t even talk to my boss about it because he does it too. I’m so frustrated and angry and sad because of it, and part of me thinks maybe I’m being too sensitive.
I’m in the process of getting a new job, but it’s one that takes weeks to months to go through all the steps, and I’m not even guaranteed the job yet.
Basically I’m looking for advice on how to deal with it until I can get another job, or opinions if I’m being too sensitive.
TL;DR I’m basically being teased and bullied at my workplace about everything about me. What can I do?