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Soma Intimates is a terrible company to work for.

I worked there last year as a part-time associate. Right away something seemed fishy. I was a little late on my second training day, and I was YELLED at. I was 24 years old at the time. I will not be yelled at like a child. 

Then that's when things started to get really strange. I made an off-hand comment to a coworker one day about how I don't really like kids and don't plan to have them, and I guess that really offended the manager because she was a mom (the first day I worked there she tried to shove her kid in my face, that should have been my first warning sign), and couldn't stand the thought of someone else not liking kids. Whatever, I didn't care. Children had nothing to do with my job description..or so I thought. Moms with small children would come in all the time and leave the kids unsupervised, leaving me and whoever else was working at the time on babysitting duty. I worked in retail, not childcare. I almost quit on that alone. I wasn't hired to be a babysitter/daycare worker. And the fact that my manager allowed this kind of behavior and did nothing to stop it should have been another red flag. But I was so financially desperate I tried to ignore it. 

After figuring out I didn't like kids, the manager looked for every excuse in the book to fire me. The final straw came when I figured out she had been spying on me via social media, and she made personal attacks on my appearance, ie, "I was showing too much skin." I'm an adult woman, I will do as I please outside of work and it's no one else's business what I do with my own body. She ended up firing me because she "didn't like how I carried myself outside of work" and "didn't trust anyone who didn't like children." Again, CHILDREN HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE JOB. And what I do outside of work is my business alone and her stalking me via should have been illegal.