Sacked for speaking up

UNLIKE many who say they shrugged off sexual harassment in the Sixties and Seventies (Letters), my experience is entirely different.

I worked as a secretary for a large trade union and one of the district organisers would walk into my office when I was alone and put his hands inside his trousers.

I told another employee about how uncomfortable this made me feel and was subsequently summoned to a senior official’s office to be dismissed for ‘disrespect of a superior’.

They said it wouldn’t be mentioned in my reference and put the reason for my dismissal down to an office re-organisation! MARGARET DICKENS, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. IN THE more light-hearted sisterhood of former years, women in offices warned each other by the nicknames they gave their male colleagues: Mr Pervy, Mr Octopus, Mr Creepy, Mr Lovely and Mr Dropdead Gorgeous.

We were able to repel lechers, while feigning respect, and thus everyone kept their jobs. PATRICIA M. PIERCE, Sale, Cheshire. I HOPE someone starts the hashtag #not me for all those who have not been sexually harassed at work.

SHIRLEY HARRIS, Angmering, W. Sussex.