#25: Ask For Permission

For some reason, people think that they can take advantage of women in the workplace without asking them in the first place. This might have been ok way back when, but this kind of behavior is most certainly not appropriate anymore. If you want someone to do something, you must ask their permission first…

When you first start a new job, it is scary enough not to screw up on your first week, let alone refuse a request from someone in a senior position. So instead of refusing, this woman decided to alter the conditions of the babysitting situation, and as it turned out, no one was interested in her services after all…