Boss slut-shames woman based on her LinkedIn profile

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In a bizare incident, an employee was taken aback by his boss's objectifying comment on a woman's LinkedIn profile. The employee caught his boss looking at the thumbnail of a woman's profile picture on LinkedIn and heard him say, "I don't know how women can complain about how they get treated when they do s''t like this"

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Referring to himself as 'Sawyer', the employee also a part-time podcaster took this to Twitter to describe his horror. He posted, "She was a nice looking woman - it was a head and shoulders shot of her wearing a grey t-shirt and smiling at the camera. It was as generic as you could get, which is what LinkedIn likes for profile pictures. I was totally baffled and said 'S''t like... what?"

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Sawyer also added, "He clicked on it to open it full-size, like he thought I just wasn't seeing it well enough and said 'This! I said ' Taking selfies ?' He said 'Taking selfies like THAT.' I was still absolutely lost, so I asked him to explain. He said 'Just, like, slutty pictures."

Sawyer also tweeted that when he asked his boss what so bad about the woman's photo, His boss responded, "Well, she's insanely hot." Shortly after sharing the conversation on social media platform, Twitter, a huge amount of people weighed in to express their disgust and anger over objectifying women.

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