[h=1]Exclusive: Singapore woman didn’t get job because she wouldn’t sleep with interviewer[/h]
Mariam Yuan | 17 July 2012
SINGAPORE: 24-year-old Suzie was excited about her job interview. A recent graduate of National University of Singapore, she had already had two preliminary interviews and felt the job was hers. That is until the final question.
“The guy interviewing me was the managing director of the graphic design company and we had had a really good interview,” the woman, asking that her full name not be made public. “Then he got up and started to walk around the office.”
Suzie continues to describe what happened next, her anger boiling.
“He came over to me and asked me to stand up. I did and he put his hand on my butt and squeezed. I was so shocked, I didn’t know what to do,” she revealed. “Then he came close and started rubbing between my legs. He said that I could have the job ‘if you get naked and have sex with me’.
“I was shocked. I slapped him in the face and ran out of the building,” she continued. “I went straight to my friends house and told her what happened.”
For the young unemployed woman, going to the police is not an option, she says, “because if I file a report against him, I won’t be able to get a job anywhere because they will see me as a troublemaker.”
This is part of her confusion. She said she always believed that going public on assaults against women is important, but now, as she attempts to find her first job and settle into her life, she fears that by doing so would mean unemployment for a long time.
“I would probably have to leave the country and go somewhere else because nobody would take me,” she added, her fists clenched in anger. She wants to do something, but doesn’t know what.
“What is sad and most upsetting about the whole thing is how normal it felt the man was acting. I fear that other women in the company might have actually done it,” she said.
With the last few months highlighting the struggle for women in the workplace, with numerous high-profile cases of businessmen “sealing” deals through sex, for Suzie it isn’t surprising that she would have been propositioned.
“It’s disgusting and I can’t believe it happened, but I hear other girls have similar experiences. Until the government really investigates these things, it won’t end,” she added.
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SINGAPORE: 24-year-old Suzie was excited about her job interview. A recent graduate of National University of Singapore, she had already had two preliminary interviews and felt the job was hers. That is until the final question.
“The guy interviewing me was the managing director of the graphic design company and we had had a really good interview,” the woman, asking that her full name not be made public. “Then he got up and started to walk around the office.”
Suzie continues to describe what happened next, her anger boiling.
“He came over to me and asked me to stand up. I did and he put his hand on my butt and squeezed. I was so shocked, I didn’t know what to do,” she revealed. “Then he came close and started rubbing between my legs. He said that I could have the job ‘if you get naked and have sex with me’.
“I was shocked. I slapped him in the face and ran out of the building,” she continued. “I went straight to my friends house and told her what happened.”
For the young unemployed woman, going to the police is not an option, she says, “because if I file a report against him, I won’t be able to get a job anywhere because they will see me as a troublemaker.”
This is part of her confusion. She said she always believed that going public on assaults against women is important, but now, as she attempts to find her first job and settle into her life, she fears that by doing so would mean unemployment for a long time.
“I would probably have to leave the country and go somewhere else because nobody would take me,” she added, her fists clenched in anger. She wants to do something, but doesn’t know what.
“What is sad and most upsetting about the whole thing is how normal it felt the man was acting. I fear that other women in the company might have actually done it,” she said.
With the last few months highlighting the struggle for women in the workplace, with numerous high-profile cases of businessmen “sealing” deals through sex, for Suzie it isn’t surprising that she would have been propositioned.
“It’s disgusting and I can’t believe it happened, but I hear other girls have similar experiences. Until the government really investigates these things, it won’t end,” she added.
BM
wasting the interviewer time 
