‘I was a tradie Barbie – it was so toxic, men just wanted to take photos of me’
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A woman who worked as a tradie said her male colleagues just wanted to take pictures of her all the time.
Amy Roberts, from Australia, shared the challenges she faced while working in a male-dominated industry.
The young blonde woman worked as a boiler maker for two and a half years and has posted TikTok videos showing herself in work gear.
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Sharing her experience when a "new guy started work", Amy responded using lyrics from a song and said: "You like a picture, let me pose for me now.
"Oh? You want another one?"
Then she put flipped a bird in front of the camera.
"For your own sake don't take photos of others when they are working," she said.
As a boilermaker, Amy gave an insight to some of her viewers what she had to do in her everyday job.
People doubted her because of her clean uniform and some even questioned: "Why isn't there any holes on your shirt if you're a boilermaker?"
One asked if her hair ever got caught on fire.
She corrected and responded: "Not welding but oxy cutting, I have only [burnt] a little bit [of my hair] though, burnt my eye lashes and eye brows too."
Other times on her TikTok page, she ditched her uniform and dressed up in short dresses and heels.
Fans couldn't stop swooning over her pretty face and cute outfits.
One asked her: "I want a girl who is in a trade but still a girly girl."
And Amy joked if she's considered as a "tradie Barbie" because she dolled up on a black dress and heeled boots.
But since she quit her job, she shared what was like to be a woman working in a tradie.
"Firstly the work environment was extremely toxic. The superintendent of the workshop literally yells at you every single day," she explained.
"I love how supportive my boss and the team were, like you always got the 'hurry the f*** up, I could have done this half an hour ago'."
She realised her mental health went downhill drastically while working there.
"When I fractured my ankles, I asked them if I could take my annual leave, I had 115 hours but they said no," Amy explained.
"But I had made a lot of friends there, which I was grateful for."
- TikTok
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