Innapropriate behaviour

Yellow121

I've had a look around boards to see the best place to put this and I think this might be it but I'm not sure. Anyway, I'll tell the story and see.
Ok, I know this girl and she's from South America, she's a very smart, attractive woman. She's here learning English but had very good jobs in her home country.
She only has a visa to cover the length she is here to study but during her time here she has enjoyed it so much and see's so much opportunity here that she wants to stay longer. That's financial opportunity and the opportunity to travel around Europe.

Well in order for her to get another visa she needs a job, she may have to go home and then come back here again. She told me the other day that she had two interviews today (Thursday) and she was very excited about them.
I met her today and asked her how she got on. She looked upset as she shaked her head. I asked what was wrong and she just mumbled, 'it was a crazy interview.' This girl is always smiling but that was no where to be seen.

She then told me a little bit about what happened, she went into the interview and it all started really well. She felt the guy that was interviewing her liked what she had to say but after a few minutes things started to change.
The interviewer started suggesting things to my friend, not coming out and saying it but hinting. Like what would you do to get this job? She was fighting back tears as she told me this.

She said she couldn't come up with the words to shout at this person as English is not her first language and she was shocked with what was happening. She just got up and walked out.
She also said that outside there was only woman waiting to be interviewed. Now, she has the name of the company and stuff on her computer but doesn't remember it but it's in Dublin city and not too far from the spiral she says.

Tomorrow she is going to print off the company add and give it to me, honestly there's only one thing I want to do. That's find this guy and sort him out. I wonder how many women he has done this to and has he actually got away with this in the past.
If I pass it on to the Gardaí will they do anything? She has no proof this happened and there's no one to back up her story. Will he just get away with it if I go to the Guards?

What I want to know is what should I do and is there any other women here that this has happened to? If we can get more than one story then we'll definitely go to the Gardaí.
I will know what this place is called and where it is tomorrow but it's near the Spiral on one of the streets off O'Connell street. Thanks for reading.

Mariasofia

Hi Yellow121 this is just a thought but is it possible that your friend misunderstood the interviewer due to English not being her first language. Sometimes things get a little lost in translation...If not then I would probably contact the company for an explanation.

Yellow121

Mariasofia wrote: »

Hi Yellow121 this is just a thought but is it possible that your friend misunderstood the interviewer due to English not being her first language. Sometimes things get a little lost in translation...If not then I would probably contact the company for an explanation.

Her English is very, very good. There's no way she misunderstood. She didn't go into detail about what he said just to say he was suggesting things. She was very upset but just to make it clear, there was no misunderstanding.

Twee.

Mod

Hi Yellow121, I think this question might be more suitable in the Wotk & Jobs forum, or their Work Problems subforum. They may have better advice on how to handle this situation correctly.

In this forum, you might refer to our thread on how women have been dealing with every day sexism http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056873081