I’ve just started a new job as a delivery driver. I’m in my early 20s, most of these guys are around 40+. In the depot each morning when we’re sorting parcels, if I go to pick up a heavy one, someone will say something like, ‘hey don’t break a nail’, or if I help one of the guys lift something, someone will laugh and say to them ‘I can’t believe you’re getting a girl to help you’ and they’ll all chuckle amongst themselves. So far I’ve been laughing it off and saying something like ‘hahah I’m not as weak as I look’, whilst I proceed to lift it and take it where it needs to go.
It’s a little annoying, I’m one of maybe 3 women who work there, and they’re always laughing and joking amongst themselves about Only Fans models and ‘sex’ related stuff. Typical guy things. It’s obviously just every day jokes to them, and maybe I’m being too sensitive, but part of me doesn’t really like being singled out for being female, they can be a bit patronising towards me because I’m a girl. But I don’t know if this is just typical humour in this type of workplace, maybe I should just get over it. Thoughts?