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When I worked in public accounting I once had a partner who would rail on any and everyone's work if they solved something or did a workpaper differently than he could comprehend or understand. Basically if you thought differently than him, it was considered wrong and everyone hated having work reviewed by him.
After years of enduring this one day he kept criticizing me about formatting something in descending order versus ascending that he preferred. I stood up for myself. He became enraged and threw a bankers wallet of working papers at me cursing me (him 5'10, me 6'3 former athlete weight lifter). I didn't think and just reacted yanking him out of his chair and planting him against the wall by his shirt collar and shoulders. I told him that if he ever threw anything at me again or insulted me with words like that, I would be putting him through the wall he was against.
No police involved, problem solved between men, and I stayed there another year or two before moving on to bigger and better things.
In a workplace you either deal with a bully personally or stay out of it. Do not go and be someone elses hero!! Companies love to find all sorts of reasons to fire people these days, so don't make it any easier.
The person who was punched should go down and fill out a complaint with the local police. If it happens again, punch or threats, make another complaint to the company and the police and possibly sue the employer for allowing such an atmosphere. When you have maniacs coming to work and gunning people down, workplace violence is nothing to play around with unless the company feels like they are qualified to take on this liability. Of course, they will be sued.
Exactly trishguard. This sounds like a toxic environment to begin with seeing as how management hasn't done anything before this incident.
Yep, but the OP is now claiming it was in the "heat of the moment". I was hoping they stated the exact timing, but that could make them no longer the hero but just another hot-head.
Isn't he stating this, though, based on your question earlier in the thread which reads:
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Iin fairness to you, exactly what was the time frame from incident between bully and co-worker to the time you "stepped up"? Are we talking 2 seconds, 4 seconds, a minute, 2 minutes????????? If it was a heat of the moment (seconds) response more to defuse the situation, there is some mitigating factors involved and you need to express that to your employer, BUT, if this was after thinking about it, you need to step up and accept that you were wrong and deserve what happened.
The passage you took from the op's original post which you quoted was:
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Originally Posted by ItsRick24 The other day I saw a co-worker punched by a bully co-worker. Well, I HATE bullies and the assault was reported, but then I in my anger stepped up and challenged the bully to "step outside and see me!" Now, my boss, and my boss's boss, put me on blast. How the hell could this be when I was NOT the one who caused the problem?
He didn't step in, two other people did, at which time he challenged the bully to step outside and see him.
To me it sounds like he didn't change his story, simply clarifying what happened.
Long thread, however, and I could be missing something.
There is such a thing as professional conflict resolution
Apparently not in this case since management didn't do anything about the bully up until this incident. I stand by my point that management, or in this case the lack thereof, played a role in this too.
This is an OLD thread!!! Why are you rehashing this?
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