Cut me some slack, Please!!

Yeah! My first post is all about complaining. Here we go...

At work some of my coworkers get carried away with touching other people. They all think it's funny to grab, poke, and grind each other. I don't. The language is rediculous too. The stereotype out there for WalMart employees, is becoming more and more true everyday. But we all aren't like that. I grew up in a religious family and a respectable town. I was taught very young all the way through my teens that behavior like that is inapropriate. I believe it to be inapropriate for the work place especially!! Yes, it's retail, but we don't need to lower our standards.

I told an associate she needed to stop grinding on this guy one day cause it made me uncomfortable. Other associates were in the room to hear. They all thought what she was doing was funny. I felt so alone because everyone in the room was sticking up for her. There was one other associate that i sorta would like to call a coward, that i knew agreed with me but didn't even stick up for me. i thought we were friends, too! I honestly felt so alone. Like stories we read in the scriptures or the New Era about teens. I had never stood up for my moral beliefs like that. It felt so good to do that, but I feel more like an outcast at work which is rediculous! Later the associate that was being inapropriate, sincerely apologized, but still sometimes gives me a hard time for being "religious." I just don't think religion is the factor hear. We are adults, but to one coworker it means it's okay to act like that so I wasn't able to plead the "adult" case, let alone the fact we work at a business. Anyway... After that conversation I have moved on. I haven't complained to anyone since. I let it be. She doesn't do that stuff as often anymore either. At least while i'm around.

Recently we had small group meetings with our manager to discuss things we as associates see need to be fixed in the store. After all the groups met, we had a large meeting with everyone on our shift. Management went over the 3 main topics with us. One of them was, we should all pay attention to our actions with each other and sexual harrassment, basically. Since then I have been told twice that I am self-righteous. I feel like people think i am the one that complained about the topic and i didn't cause i had said my peace. I really hope people don't think it was me. I shouldn't care, but people get mean. I don't want to deal with it. We all just need to grow up. I'm pretty sure I know who did complain, the "coward". She is always too scared to speak up to people that offend her and instead goes to management fairly often. But people i don't think realized cause she is pretty quiet. Watever! I need to get over it!!!