I've had to file a lot of reports lately regarding stuff that's happened at work. It makes me enormously uncomfortable, because I know that when it involves an error on another staff's part, I am, in essence, ratting that person out. I'm not trying to get anyone in trouble, but I know that if I don't report an error when I discover it, I become responsible for any consequences that occur as a result.
It's also weird being a male in that workplace. I have to be so much more mindful of how I interact with others in case someone ever decided to accuse me, falsely, of sexual abuse. I'm lucky in the sense that the women I work with are very comfortable expressing their comfort levels to me...there's one girl who will go and hug a female staff that she hates when she wants a hug before she hugs me. She has accepted hugs from me on two occasions, when she was obviously upset and I asked her if she wanted a hug. There were a few times where I asked her if she wanted a hug and she flat out said no, lol, which was kind of weird but I'm glad that she can tell me. She has such poor boundaries with other men in her life and is so vulnerable to sexual exploitation, so it tells me that she feels comfortable enough with me to vocalize when she does, and does not, want a hug.
