A young worker, placed by an employment agency at an average food company in the Como area, being harassed by the foreman, a man in his sixties nearing retirement. Having opposed the attempted assault, which occurred in the elevator, the girl reaches the department upset, tells what happened to some colleagues and asks to be her home, all in the presence of the offender that, wink wink, urges the girl to be quiet. Meanwhile, another young worker admits to have suffered the same treatment, in the same way, only an hour earlier. And check some other confession: workers of all ages finally find the courage to admit that he had opposed in the past to the same harassment.
The management informed of, no opinion. The next day they mobilize the family of the victim, a recruitment agency and the union. The girl is confused: he would not call never set foot in the company, not having to do with the man long hated by all because of his arrogance and low cooperation with colleagues - that got their hands on him and the hypocritically has ordered to be silent and would welcome justice and respect for their dignity violated. But it also wants to work, he needs a paycheck. The responsibilities of a police report, a criminal case, begins to weigh: it is not so sure I wanted to take an uphill struggle made statements, detailed stories, judges, courts ... The union's hands are tied: can not act if the girl decides to press charges. And my colleagues - my colleagues! - Please do not burst the scandal: What would become of the man and his family? And why then embroiled in the causes and processes? It's your word against hers, say her colleagues, who do you believe? In times of crisis you have to think to keep the work for the good of all would it not be better to put everything to rest, bow your head and go as it has always done?
The girl took only four days to surrender in order to reduce its indignation within the narrow enclosure of shame, the need of a thousand euro per month; to restrict the horizon, perched in the individual interest glancing disgusted the world. The day he returned to work, she has been asked by the owner: "You all right? All right? There are clear, she and the man? "
Everything is tolerated in the name of money. The workers, who can not give up the thousand Euros per month, they swallow their dignity, and the employer, for which any investigation may be a hindrance to the rhythm of production, unscrupulous sacrifice the safety of its employees: and I do not just victims of harassment. Men as the abuser of this story people are sick, dangerous to himself and others. Put them in front of their problem - their illness - is both a duty and an act of mercy.
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