For the last 3 months I have been having trouble with a male client, (I am a female). When I first started with him, he would always wear clothes. The last 3 months he has been more & more without shorts. Tries to walk around in his underwear. I ask him to put clothes on. Just recently he is trying to walk around in just a shirt. Everything exposed at the bottom. He will try to call me his lover sweetheart. I correct him. He stares at my boobs. There are 2 other older female workers in the home. We take shifts. They both have said he has never done that before with them. Also at night once he is in his room he will call me to go do simple things in his room he can do. Like he is trying to get me in his room Again other workers say that he doesn’t do this with them. I work just overnight. He gets up 3r 4 times a night to supposedly go to restroom. Then he says he peed on himself. So he will walk back to his room naked. I have put clothes in bathroom for him to have xtra. He still comes out naked r in underwear. I have talked to his sister, and my office. I was not pleased with wat they told me. Basically they said he is in his home and they can’t force him to wear clothes. That if I am uncomfortable with it,they can find me another client. 😱wat. How is that fair. If it was a female client walking naked with a male DSW they wldnt allow that. Even if I find another client there r still 2 other female DSW still working their. He has a history of trying to rub his arm on female workers breasts while they are helping him walk with his walker. Is this fair. If they pull me from the house who is to say they will find me another client right away. What if they do it purposely not to find me work cause I complained.
Every single time I passed him (his wife was also requiring care) he'd make a grab for me. I was quick, but got pinched a few too many times. (Once was enough, really).
Complaints to the home office came back with a 'oh well, he's like that, you're really there for the wife'.
Well--she was no prize either, blacked my eye within the first hour I was there.
I quit, in a huff and while my boss was yelling at me that I HAD to go back--good grief, for minimum wage? Get abused?
As a worker you have a right to a safe working environment. If you feel threatened (and likely this man doesn't really 'get it' that his behavior is wrong) you need to self protect.
And no, it is not fair.