My girlfriend is being called “bao bei” at work.
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Have you guys personally experienced this? She’s working as a PA part time and the colleague of her direct superior has jokingly called her baobei. Is this a sign of worse things to come? And is this acceptable at all from a girl’s POV?
For the non-chinese, baobei is the equivalent of babe in english.
He (the colleague) has also asked my gf to introduce girls of her age to the direct supervisor who is single (there is an 8 year age gap) and he (my gf’s direct supervisor) casually retorts that age is just a number.
Netizens’ comments
- It is cringy and borderline harassment if it is from a male supervisor. I would feel extremely uncomfortable.
- Imo this is kinda unprofessional? But it all comes down to whether your girlfriend is comfortable with it. Does her direct supervisor not say anything though? I would imagine that they don’t like that.
- That’s something can be reported to HR in my current company
- If you are not comfortable with it, you can tell your gf. If she is not comfortable with it too and she knows your stand on it, she can tell the supervisor. If he does not listen, escalate.
- Just laying down boundaries so that it it stops somewhere. You backing her up helps her to enforce those boundaries.