'Proud Uncle' Says Niece Slapped Her 'Sexist' Boss Before Quitting in Viral Post

A self-described "proud uncle" alleged in a now-viral Reddit post that his 21-year-old niece slapped her boss "square in the face" before quitting her job.

Posting to Reddit's "Antiwork" forum on Sunday under the username u/dracula912, the man explained that the story was "the topic" of Christmas Eve dinner.

Already, the post has received more than 38,000 up-votes and over 2,400 comments.

At the beginning of the post, u/dracula912 said that his niece worked as a secretary and a receptionist for a small tax and accounting firm.

Throughout her time with the company, however, she was forced to lodge several complaints to HR about office behavior. According to the post, her boss frequently made "sexist" comments about both her appearance and her performance.

"Comments such that she should get a boob job in order to 'improve her performance at the reception desk,' or that she should come to work wearing a 'tighter dress' to 'highlight that figure,'" u/dracula912 alleged.

Her boss also said that "women are incapable of holding positions of authority in the workplace and make 'good assistants and secretaries' because women 'are designed to serve and obey,'" u/dracula912 continued.

Additionally, u/dracula912 claimed that his niece's boss would frequently call his niece by the wrong name, wouldn't pay her for working overtime and denied her a promotion because she refused to go to dinner with him.

But the final nail in the coffin came when the woman's boss "put his hand on her shoulder" during a meeting, and said that she need to be "'more compliant in life and never say no at work' and [that she] needs to follow the example of his obedient stay-at-home Thai wife if [she] wants to have any chance of receiving a bonus or raise next year."

"My niece stood up, slapped her boss full force in the face and screamed at him some choice words about being a sexist abusive pervert and shouted 'I QUIT' and stormed out," u/dracula912 concluded.

One commenter said that u/dracula912's niece had a "slam dunk case for workplace sexual harassment and creating a hostile environment." More than 3,000 Redditors up-voted the comment in agreement.

According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), harassment is defined as: "Unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex [including sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy], national origin, older age [beginning at age 40], disability, or genetic information [including family medical history]."

Harassment becomes unlawful when "enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment," and/or when "the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to create a work environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive."

The EEOC further explained on its website that the employer is liable for harassment by a supervisor that ends in termination, failure to promote or hire, or loss of wages.

Additionally, "if the supervisor's harassment results in a hostile work environment," the employer can only avoid liability if it can prove that it tried to prevent and correct the "harassing behavior" and that the employee "failed to take advantage of any preventive or corrective opportunities provided by the employer."

While some commenters were worried that u/dracula912's niece could potentially face legal trouble herself as a result of the slap, they supported her actions.

"Read the headline thinking 'physical violence is not the answer.' Got to item 4 thinking 'I will go slap the other side of his face if you post the address,'" wrote u/_MadSuburbanDad_. "Hug your niece for us."

"Conclusion: violence is sometimes the answer," added u/GrittyFred.

Others, however, felt that the story was a work of fiction.

"This sounds like one of those really exaggerated HR videos that you have to watch when you get a new job," remarked u/bizarrogreg.

"Let's just file this under bulls**t that never happened," commented another Redditor.

"This sounds made up," wrote u/Herefurbeerz.