?Slurs and other disrespectful terms relating to a person's race, color, religion, age, national origin, citizenship status, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, or "disability"
?Excessive or habitual use of terms relating to a person's characteristics, if a reasonable person would feel excluded, belittled, or singled out for unwanted attention through such language
?Referring to people in terms of their assumed nationalities
?Words relating to gender stereotypes
?Profane or obscene references to yourself or others
Get a backbone or tell her to stop it.. You will be unemployed, homeless or on welfare and food stamps for the rest of your life, if you let little things worry you. She has the backing of the others because as you stated "others have informed that although she is a nice person that she does have a bold, sarcastic sense of humour and this doesn't necessarily mean anything from her" so she is going to win and you will lose your employment.
People within workforce do not care and will fire you, if you begin complaining because they only care about their bottom line and with the right type of information or recorded documentation. This is a lawsuit so before reporting it, have your ducks in a row and take the information to a lawyer first before H.R or your manager because they are going to dot their I's and cross their T's
Take Care
Go to her and say "I think you misunderstood me the other day when I was telling you a story about....." That way you aren't being confrontational, and now it's her serve to explain the remark to you. If she apologizes etc then let it go because it won't be the last time you'll run into this in the business world. If she says something else to offend you then say 'this is what I mean" and explain it to her one more time. Sometimes all it takes is to stand up for yourself nicely of course, and show the person that you can't be taken advantage of, My guess is that she'll choose her words more carefully next time.
If not, then take it to the next level i.e. HR and tell them how her comments made you feel but I doubt it will happen again because most people will back off from someone who stands up to them especially in the workplace. Don't get emotional but be calm and reasonable but firm and you'll see how fast people back off of you.
Hi there. I don't think its fair to you to have to let this slowly eat at you, so in my opinion, I think you should approach her with how you feel so you can get this off her chest.
If she is going to be a leader, she needs some better inter-personal skills and you are actually being positive in bringing this to your attention.
If you aren;t comfortable with confrontation, I would then suggest that the type of energy she is putting out there is going to come back to her eventually. Its the way the world works in my experience.
One last thing, someone's opinion or inference towards you does not make it true or your reality, so please believe that.
Good Luck,
TLC
Let it pass, if she was having a bad day & her behavior was out of character, forget it. It the worse thing she called you was slow, perhaps you are being too sensitive.
If her behavior changes & she starts to pick on you, speak to the manager or your human resource department.
You won't get far in the working world if you are going to take offence at nothing much. Get over it.
let it go, but show how hard *** you are while she be mean and offend you intentional next time.
Recently, a coworker of mine made an inappropriate sarcastic comment to me when I was trying to explain something to her. Normally, this co-worker is a decent person but I do not think I can forgive them for this comment. She had been under stress at the time and working extra hours.
Basically, I was telling her a story and she commented on something and assumed I didn't understand.
She made a rude, sarcastic remark at my expense that implied that I was being "slow".
Others have informed that although she is a nice person that she does have a bold, sarcastic sense of humour and this doesn't necessarily mean anything from her. However, recently this co-worker was promoted to my team leader but I really want nothing to do with her at all...
Am I out of line? I can be sarcastic too, but I would never imply something so rude to one of my co-workers and I can't really get past this.
