I got the impression that it was not so much a comment or two on her lunch as an ongoing daily assault that had no end in sight. Can you tell you boss to knock it the fuck off? Some, perhaps. Others you may be forced to go over them.
I don’t care if her delicate sensibilities are offended by a mouse fart in a distant storeroom. If HR chose not to intervene and protect her from comments about her dietary habits, it’s because they had a good reason to assume that a happy and successful office culture needn’t be derailed by a squeaky wheel.
Pretend you are on a jury. Do you award damages to the whiner? If you set this precedent, how will you prevent every whiner from single handedly bankrupting every business simply because they can’t even?
My take on that cluster is that you’re being taken to task not for disagreeing, but for the way that you disagreed. There is no active campaign here to evict dissenters, just people bitching about behavior they perceive as rude.
The only person doing this is you. Get a grip and move on to another topic.
People, please stop allowing PCarolanus to derail this thread.
Get lost pantload.
Fuck off back to the appropriate thread and stop hijacking this one, asshole! Nobody here gives a shit!
He’s going on my ignore list right fucking now. Everybody, please don’t feed the trock.
It’s patently obvious that PCarolinus has a grudge against **NC **and is disrupting this board to harass her.
Pantload and his alter ego, Diaperload, are again tag-trocking in that other thread.
Hang in there NC, we know he’s a moron.
Wouldn’t surprise me if this is the boss in question. Also the other “newbie.”
I mean, if you’ll harass people at work, the anonymity of the Internet would only make you worse. Why expect harassers to have boundaries?
Well, he’s threatened to sue the SDMB, so let’s see if that earns him a one-way ticket.
http://boards.straightdope.com//sdmb/showpost.php?p=20651831
That was my thought exactly.
Perhaps after NC quit HR looked to the other employees for corroboration of NC’s exit interview dump. Finding enough corroboration they axed the boss. Too late for NC, but justice in a sense. Which would *really *enrage a harasser.
The fact several of us have pointed out that HR took NC’s side seems to be printed in invisible electrons. All the itemized responses somehow skip that particular sentence.
In my old biz we had/have a saying: “Once is bad luck. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.”
Never wise to threaten suing the board. The whole thread has been cornfielded.
Interestingly, as of right now neither **PCarolinus **nor **johnod **have been banned. I don’t recall which was the one offering to sue, but I would have expected whichever it was to get banned immediately after the thread disappeared. Unless it was some third name I missed.
I knew reporting that would get some attention. Talk of legal action makes TPTB extremely nervous.
It was PCarolinus. I should have attributed the quote to him.
Per various mod comments, that is the one and only “zero discretion, terminate on sight with extreme prejudice” crime on TPTB’s books.
I don’t know if it’s an instantban. The mods probably have to talk it out. PCarolinus was last logged in at 8:59 P.M. CST, less than an hour ago.
Only a True Moron threatens to sue a privately held company, claiming it is a “public” board and cannot stifle their FREE SPEECH!!!
I’d love to see the faces of any attorneys they contact for that one, but these days I’m sure there’d be some jackass willing to take their money.