A pharmacist is alleging a violation of her civil rights because her employer, a Walgreens near Grand Junction, ignored the sexual harassment she endured from customers and retaliated against her when she raised the issue.

Kathryn L. Judson began working as a pharmacist at a store in Clifton after many years with the company in other locations. Almost immediately, she wrote in her lawsuit, “male Walgreens customers began making unwanted sexual comments and sexual advances” toward her.

She alleges that the store manager told her she should “take it as a compliment.”

Less than one month into Judson’s employment at the store, she said the harassment was so pervasive that “I do not enjoy this attention…I find it repulsive.” She added in an e-mail to a manager in Denver that “I no longer look at the male customers as I don’t want to make eye contact with them…I have had too many advances.”

The Denver manager twice rejected Judson’s request for a transfer, allegedly asking her to stay at the Western Slope location for six months.

Three months into her employment, Judson wrote that she was again sexually harassed at the drive-through window, to which the store manager responded, “You should quit wearing skirts.”

Walgreens did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Judson concluded that a series of policy violation notices she received from the company were in retaliation for reporting the harassment. She wrote that Walgreens knew of the harassment and “failed to take prompt, remedial action to stop the conduct.” She is asking the court for lost wages and damages for emotional suffering.