I need to get this off my chest, and this seems like the only real place to do it without seeming like a pig.

I work in a factory. We fill, seal, and label bottles. I also work with a lot of women. Everyone works hard, everyone works together, and everyone gets paid the same amount at the end of the day, it's a good system purely because everyone is treated the same way.

A few days ago, we had a specific job. We had filled a few thousand bottles previously, but the customer hadn't decided where they were getting shipped to, so we didn't label the bottles.

The customer had just called to say he'd sold the wine, and sent some labels for us to use, so we got down to business.

The unlabled bottles were in blank 6pack boxes, stacked on pallets. There was a process we always followed when labelling blank bottles:

First person lifts a 6pack onto the table Second person opens the 6pack 3 separate people lift 2 bottles each out of the box and place them on a conveyor to get labelled the last of these 3 people toss the empty box to a final person who flattens the box ready for reuse or recycling

With this process, it takes us around 3 seconds to get 6 bottles on the conveyor so they can be labelled, with everyone working together the whole process doesn't take long.

Most of the pressure is on the person flattening the boxes, because boxes are coming at them so fast, if you go to toss a box at them to catch, and their hands are full, you just throw it near their feet so that they can pick it up when they have a spare moment.

We also rotate jobs frequently so that nobody gets RSI from repeating the same action over and over.

Now, the actual story of what happened (that's a lot of lead up I know)

I started with flattening boxes, and as is the case with everyone, start to collect a small pile of half a dozen unfolded boxes at my feet. If I've got one in my hands, someone will toss the next one at my feet, that's how it works, I've been working there for years, and it's REALLY not a big deal.

Half an hour in, we rotate jobs, and it's all fine, this happens two more times.

Finally, it's the new girl's turn to flatten the boxes. It's her first week, she's about 20, and seems to have been doing her job quite well up to this point

After a few minutes, she's starting to fall behind (as we all do), so I toss a box near her feet, and she goes OFF

"HOW DARE YOU TREAT ME LIKE THAT, CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BUSY AND JUST WAIT"

"YOU SEXIST CHAUVINISTIC PIG, MAKING ME PICK THINGS UP OFF THE DIRTY FLOOR BECAUSE YOU CAN'T WAIT 5 SECONDS"

"YOU THINK I CAN'T CATCH A STUPID BOX JUST BECAUSE I'M A GIRL, how DARE you make that assumption?!?!"

I'm just standing there, everyone has stopped and is staring as she works through cliché after cliché about why I am a substandard human being for doing MY JOB. She insults my personal hygiene, my manhood and my Father.

Completely gobsmacked, and enraged, I do the only respectable thing, I turn around and walk away from my post.

"YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, WALK AWAY FROM ME, YOU DISRESPECTFUL COWARD"

I go past my supervisor and ask if I can swap to another line for the rest of the shift, he doesn't have a problem with it, so I approach one of my colleagues on another line, and he doesn't need me to say anything

"don't worry, I've got it bro, make sure these bottles don't go below 373ml and get it signed off with Jane at the end of the shift"

What the hell guys? Can you imagine if I'd done the same thing to her? I'd lose my job on the spot, probably get some sort of victimization charge, and be shunned for being, you know a total dickhead.

As it stands, I'm getting less work because she has asked that I not be placed on the same shifts as her, and my boss is saying that she has to follow her demands, as she could do a lot of damage to the business. EDIT:However as I work for an on hire labour company, I have still been working at other factories, so this has had a minimal effect on my overall workload.

sorry, that was a really long post, but I needed to explain it properly to somebody.

TL;DR new girl goes off at me in the middle of work due to baseless claims that I am being disrespectful to her, to put it in her words "because she doesn't have a dick" I'm getting less work to account for her demands that we don't have to work together, and boss is powerless to do anything.

Similar stories anyone?

Edited to provide additional information Edit spelling, original still available http://www.reddit.com/r/MRSelfPostCopies/comments/r4u4w/copy_this_really_pissed_me_off/