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Heads up, companies: when a woman makes a complaint about the misogynist behaviour of a male employee, take her seriously.
Sadly, this isn’t what happened when a woman complained to a UK train company about the dismissive and patronising conduct of one of their train conductors. Instead, her complaint was met with a snarky and completely tone deaf response.
Emily Lucinda Cole tweeted a complaint to Virgin Trains East Coast that an older male train manager dismissed her in a “patronising” way, calling her “honey.”
When virgin trains mess up and the older male train manager in the resulting conversation dismisses you with that hideously patronising word women shudder at in contexts such as these: “honey” @virgin_trainsEC.
— Emily Lucinda Cole (@EmilyLucindaRC) January 2, 2018 Read more…
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