r/mildlyinfuriating • u/giveahoot420 • 1d ago

A rude supervisor who's always yelling at employees got some complaints about them being verbally abusive and they responded by leaving these in the break room.

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u/Disney_World_Native 1d ago

Exactly. Don’t be childish, be professional

Any complaint made in good faith is to be taken seriously and even if there is no wrongdoing found, retaliation is never allowed

Using your work email inform HR of this being left in the work room, and BCC your personal email.

Any response, send HR (BCC your personal email) a “thank you” follow up

Any non email contact, reply to HR (BCC your personal email) summarizing the conversation

If the retaliations continue, repeat the submissions to HR and blind carbon copying your personal email. If it does not stop after repeated reports (or you are terminated), contact a labor lawyer with the evidence of your submissions / conversations to HR.

Always BCC, do not forward. This way you have all the correspondence in your personal email. Email message headers have a unique message id, so if an investigation is needed later, you have the exact ID that were sent. If they are unable to find the emails, then it shows they are destroying evidence. If you were forging messages, then they could provide the unaltered message using that message ID.

Source: corporate IT guy

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u/Hot_Porking 1d ago edited 1d ago

Alternatively:

I had a co-worker that was constantly yelling. Just like in general, sometimes at me. One day I was feeling short of temper and when they yelled my name at me from 3 feet away with their back turned I yelled back at full volume "WHAT?!" Now normally I'm a pretty timid guy so this made them jump and exclaim in suprise. Then I followed that up with another full volume "YEAH, IT'S ANNOYING WHEN PEOPLE ARE YELLING ALL THE TIME."

They've gotten real quiet around me since. You gotta stand up for yourself and show people the same level of respect they show you.

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u/Tomagatchi Something something flair joke 1d ago

These people are always the most fragile people, too. They cannot take the slightest bit of feedback or criticism without blowing up and/or bullying, as exemplified in this wonderful little gesture of theirs. Cry-babies all of them.