She was asking for a day off.
When talent agency employee Rosette Laursen sent an email to her boss asking if she could take a day off work to participate in ‘A Day Without A Woman,’ she received this horrific and sexist response.
Her boss, whose details Rosette has excluded from the Facebook post she wrote, said the following.
He meant to send the email to two male co-workers but instead sent it to his whole team.
“Are you fucking kidding me. At the end of pilot season. Someone should sew her vagina shut. I’m never hiring a girl ever again.
No bonus for anyone that strikes or leaves early in pilot season. No one is striking in show business we are all against Trump. And women are considered diverse and being shoved in as writer and directors. Zach who is a Jewish male is being pushed out.
Uppity Selfish C**t. Heather went to work. I’m sure anyone at a casting office or agency would be fired.”
‘A Day Without A Woman’ was an event running in conjunction with International Women’s Day.
It encouraged women to book a day off work to prove how valuable their skills are, and how much they are needed in the workplace.
Following this initial accidental response, Rosette’s boss then sent her another email.
In her Facebook post, she called it his “thoughtful” apology.
“I apologize for venting like a misogynistic f****t. I was letting off steam I didn’t mean to hit reply all. I’m an asshole. If you come back we can play Nazi death camp. You can beat me and put me in the oven. Or feed me cabbage and lock me in the shower. I am truly sorry.”
Naturally, Rosette wasn’t too impressed with either of these emails so responded with a clear and concise “I quit.”
Rosette went on to say that she became disappointed in her other co-workers who told her to stay because it was “just a joke.”
She said that she didn’t like how desensitised they had become to her boss, but that she also empathised with their situation.
“I’ve also been in that position and it would have been a lot easier to leave quickly if they were only awful. But no one is. That is the truly sad thing about leaving an abusive situation, because you are leaving someone who is sometimes human and good.”
Despite this, the former agency employee then went on to give a comprehensive list of all of the racist, misogynistic, and questionable acts she had witnessed her boss commit.
They included using the N word and screaming about how he would never be friends with women.
Rosette then went on to comment about the similar situations women all around America are currently facing in the workplace.
She said:
“This might have happened to me on “A Day Without A Woman” but I think many assistants suffer hostile work environments.
Both men and women experience verbal abuse, but are afraid to stand up for themselves. They don’t want to have to be the one to take action. They are willing to put up with things that are absolutely crossing a line because the job will look good on a resume for the next step in their careers, or hope the connections made through the job might be beneficial.
I have struggled a lot with sharing this because I’m afraid it will work against me and my career. That is scary to me, and sad that this might be the reality we live in.”
Rosette ended her epic exposure of her boss by quoting a famous Hollywood comedian.
“Please don’t let anyone treat you like this, and to paraphrase the great Mike Birbiglia – If you have to say it was a joke, it wasn’t a good joke.”
