It's a different environment when you're in a customer facing position like a library or a restaurant, or a shop where your job is to take care of customers.

Look. Any access that men have to you, some will abuse. Mostly, it's random and not persistent.

Sometimes that changes and it becomes persistent and ongoing, depending on circumstances.

That's just the way it is. It's the way those men are. It's the way everyone, especially other men, then turn a blind eye.

This is what we women deal with.

For whatever reason, this library she works at has become a gathering point for a bad element of entitled men. And they're using her position as a customer facing employee (subordinate) in order to harass her. It's become problematic enough and visible enough that HER BOSS has agreed that not wearing a name tag may help alleviate the harassment without further intervention.

Whats odd to me is that all you men in the comments, all you men who are always so quick to #NotAllMen, are more concerned about a piece of plastic with a name on it than you are that harassment has become such a problem at this location that a supervisor/manager has had to make a policy exception for an employee to try to stifle it so there won't be a lawsuit. Or the cops won't have to be called. Or they won't have constant barring patrons. Or things won't escalate to the point where weapons or assaults happen.

Because it's a short list of where this ends, left unchecked. And plastic name badges won't be involved.

And so you see, it actually IS #AllMen.