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One day at work, Michelle (not her real name), a former Victoria’s Secret employee from a California store, was helping “this little old man. He had a free coupon and his wife was like, ‘Oh, I want these panties,’” she recalled to The Daily Beast. “And he was like, describing them to me. I was like, ‘Okay,’ and I brought them over to where the panties were.”
“He said, ‘I like your nipples. They’re so small.’ I was like, ‘What did you just fucking say to me?’” Michelle said. “He was like, ‘Oh, I didn’t [say anything].’ I’m like, ‘You can go fuck yourself.’ And he’s literally laughing to himself and talking to himself as he’s walking out through the door.”
“I had only one person stand up for me and go after the customer which was the assistant store manager,” Michelle said. “When other members of management heard about the situation, I was referred to the employee dress code guide and told to always feel comfortable to go to a manager about ‘problematic’ customers, and that was it. They didn’t do enough, and when they tried, it was too little too late.”