After a woman named Charlotte applied for a landscaping job fitting her level of experience she got an unexpected sexist response.
However, Charlotte clapped back in a scalding email.
Her brother posted on Twitter for all to see the initial response from the employer which—despite Charlotte's experience—suggested she cannot handle the physical demands due to her gender.
Then her bother added Charlotte's response.
The email my sister got from a landscaping company job she applied for vs. The one she sent back pic.twitter.com/W9LSjyXrBP— \ud835\ude8d\ud835\ude8a\ud835\ude97 (@\ud835\ude8d\ud835\ude8a\ud835\ude97) 1627589411
The employer Mark's email got problematic when he made an unnecessary remark ignoring her previous work and made assumptions because she was female.
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He wrote:
"Unless you are a bodybuilder I fear that you will not be able to handle the workload."
Before adding again the job was “very physically demanding" but to contact him if Charlotte was indeed “up for it."
The point lost on Mark seemed to be the list of previous work she included on her application he had in hand before thinking his email was a good idea.
Charlotte responded to his email in kind, saying she no longer was interested due to Mark's response and taking his sexist attitude down a peg...or two.
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In her response she highlighted a few key points.
"Funnily enough, I probably have just as much experience bodybuilding as you do, which I'm guessing is none."
She added her years of experience of working in the Australian heat.
"What I do have is year's of experience landscaping and also building training walls in 40 degree heat [104F] as I did this for many years while I lived in Australia."
When withdrawing her interest in the company she cited her reasoning.
"What I do find challenging is working with small-minded individuals such as yourself that I could probably bench press five minutes after being woken up from a three-year coma."
She signed the email "Charlotte (AKA not the body builder)."
Twitter went wild over her hilarious pointed response to “Muscle Mark's" initial assistive response to her application.
What\u2019s extremely worrying is the amount of people who genuinely view Mark\u2019s email as respectful— Katie Minns \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@Katie Minns \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08) 1627643196
Guys who do this are the worst. I work in a pub. My boss is female, I'm the oldest "male" on site. Guess who everyone looking for the manager always comes to.\n\nI usually shrug and say "sounds like the manager's problem", point to her and walk away.— Kriss (@Kriss) 1627636244
She could@sue for gender discrimination. It's all in writing. At minimum have a file a complaint with the EEOC.— blkupnme (@blkupnme) 1627604485
Literally the best part, I knew it was gonna be fire after that— Selima Tate (@Selima Tate) 1627623263
Bruh everyone saying \u201che was just letting her know about the rigor of work \u201d is ignoring the fact SHE APPLIED FOR IT. IE: send in an application with a resume. Her experience and qualifications were RIGHT THERE, he\u2019s just sexist— Justini \ud83d\udc1e (@Justini \ud83d\udc1e) 1627650817
So annoying\u2026..I had a guy say and act so stunned that \u201cmy husband\u201d wasn\u2019t discussing things with him (re work we needed done on the house) \u2026.\u2026his mind was blown lol— Chelle (@Chelle) 1627627746
What he said implied his bias, you don't question the strength of what a person can do if they apply with verifiable experience in the same field.— Great Wulf-Rat Warren (@Great Wulf-Rat Warren) 1627655292
While the emails sparked some laughs sexism in the workplace is serious, common and no laughing matter.
It has no place in our society.