Water You Thinking, Dude?

Every Christmas, our news station is sponsored by the local botanical garden. We have these beautiful red poinsettias around the anchor desk. I have been working for about a year in production and this is my first full-time job. Not only am I one of two women in the department but I’m currently the only one in this office.

Boss: “So, once again, we have poinsettias, and they will need to be watered every other day. Usually, the newbie has to water them, so [My Name], you’ll be the Water B**** this year.”

I stare at him in shock. Until that moment (and since that moment), I had never been called a b**** at work. And never Water B****. I could tell he was used to saying it every year but didn’t realize it could be offensive to a woman.

Boss: *Embarrassed* “Um… that’s what we call them every year…”

Unsurprisingly, that wasn’t the only moment of misogyny from him. Go figure…