“I was an accountant, so I would usually go to a temp agency and work a couple of jobs until one came along I liked. I went for a short interview for temp to perm in the Milwaukee area. The manager interviewed me in the conference room and asked me if I would object to straightening up the conference room on Friday afternoons. I thought it was a bit odd since they had lower level positions, but it wasn’t far from my house, so I said sure. Friday comes along and people start leaving around 3:00 p.m. The girl who was training me comes by and says she is going to show me what I needed to clean on Fridays. I was a bit puzzled, thinking I didn’t need to be shown how to pick up a conference room. She then takes me to a janitor closet, pulls out a vacuum, mops, and bathroom cleaners. She tells me I’m to clean all the bathrooms, empty the trash, and vacuum all the offices, including mine and the conference room. I told her I thought there was a mistake and she said, no all the new women employees did this job until a new one came along. Then she left. I tried to call the man who hired me, but he didn’t answer. I actually started to vacuum a couple of offices, but I was getting more and more frustrated. I looked in the bathrooms and said to myself ‘oh heck no’. Apparently they were only cleaned on Fridays. Mind you I have on a suit, nylons, and high heels. I tried calling the manager again, and when there was no answer, I picked up my things and walked out. I went straight to the temporary agency. She was on the phone with him, because one of the employees called her and said I left all the cleaning material out and walked out the door. This was an agency for professional people. I told her my story. Had we had cell phones then, I would have taken lots of pictures. She called him back with me sitting there and asked him if they had indeed asked me to spend the last two hours of the day cleaning bathrooms. He said all the other women had done it, it was like an initiation thing. She asked him if men had to do this. He said no. The agency lady told him how I didn’t plan on coming back, and to please lose her number. This agency was not sending qualified accountants out there to clean his office. This was in the early nineties. In retrospect, I should have gone after them for discrimination, but I just let it go. That was the one time I walked off a job!”