This is the second part of a two entry debut. Overall I want to look at one issue in Taiwan. That is the lack of employee rights. As a "foreigner" teaching English I'm not subjected to the typical Taiwan philosophy of "You will be treated like garbage work long hours and get ridiculously low pay" working credence.
Now this story begins with my girlfriend's sister. Who has been exposed to sexual harassment at work. The person she works for is making gross advances towards her. So logically she decided to quit her job. However her father yells at her saying she must fix the problem. Now this is a ignorant statement because everyone knows a work environment with sexual harassment is not mentally healthy and it could even be transformed into something that is potentially dangerous.
However this is only the tip of the iceberg. When she told her boyfriend of her decision to quit and explained the situation to him...HE TOO YELLED AT HER and told her to "fix the problem". OK how ridiculous is this. Common sense says if your girlfriend is being sexually harassed at the office place you do not tell her to fix it. If my girlfriend had that situation I honestly would walk into the office find whoever said those things and savagely beat the person up. Any upstanding man would do it. It just confuses me on how a boyfriend would tell his girlfriend to continue working at a harmful work environment. The sad thing is a lot of men on the island(NOT ALL so don't spam my comments with hate) behave in this manner where they absolutely don't support their significant other. I may not be a full Asian in terms culture but common sense says if your girlfriend is facing sexual harassment the last thing you should do is tell her to "suck it up".
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