Okay, you little slut… I KNOW you don’t like working with me. I know that you’re 16 and I’m 19, and that you don’t quite follow that I’m a manager and you’re not. I know your parents take your whole paycheck, and I know the head manager jokingly gave you permission to hit me on the head with a deposit bag.
BUT HE DIDN’T MEAN THE LOCK SIDE!!!
God dammit, girl, I saw you in the mirror. He handed it to you soft-side pointing to me. You deliberately turned it around, wound up, and his me flush on top of the head with a metal key-lock. And when I let out a “GOD DAMMIT!!!,” I took shit from the customers for ‘taking the Lord’s name in vain.’
If I pulled that shit with you, I’d lose my fucking job. Why? Because I’m a 6-foot, 260-pound, spikey-haired 19-year-old guy, and you’re a 5-foot-nothing, “sweet, innocent” little girl. But when my manager sees you do it, it’s cute. And I’ve got a motherfucking goose egg on my head.
If you EVER do ANYTHING like that again… I don’t care if it’s your last week… I don’t care if I’ll go to jail… I WILL retaliate. If you were a guy it’d be a simple kick to the crotch - that’s how mad you make me. But since you’re a little girl, and therefore sans testicles, I’d probably just whack you open-handed in the jaw.
Not very funny when YOU’RE the defenseless one, is it?
If you’ve got a serious bump on your head, maybe you should see a doctor. If it’s bad but not ‘go to the doctor’ bad, you can still mess with your boss. If you can trust yourself to keep a straight face, tell him that you woke up with pounding headaches and almost blacked out. When you came to, you realised you were lying on the bathroom floor and that you had been sick. After realising you had probably fainted, you tried to get up, but passed out again… etc… He’ll think twice before telling someone it’s ok to hit people in the head.
See, the problem with filing charges is that she’s 16, has no appreciable assets, it wouldn’t be worth the court costs, I’d end up looking like a bully, and I have no appreciable injury other than this unbelievably sore spot on my head.
Also, the fact that I reacted with complete disbelief, which in my case comes off as humor, and pretty much no-sold the hit on the head until she left would probably present a problem.
Really though, I’d be fired on the spot for an action like that, joking or not, whether it was a manager or an employee…what the hell is wrong with people?
I agree with k.os.
If you’ve got a serious bump on your head, maybe you should see a doctor. If it’s bad but not ‘go to the doctor’ bad, you can still mess with your boss. If you can trust yourself to keep a straight face, tell him that you woke up with pounding headaches and almost blacked out. When you came to, you realised you were lying on the bathroom floor and that you had been sick. After realising you had probably fainted, you tried to get up, but passed out again… etc… He’ll think twice before telling someone it’s ok to hit people in the head.
After all of this, tell him you need to see a doctor, for real, but do it on company time.Or go on your own time, but let your " Boss " know you went. The real kicker will be you should let your doctor know it is a Workman’s Comp. Claim. Someone higher up will want to know why such a claim was filed.
The bottom line is No One should have to be treated like this !!! Your boss is a Slime Mold, who needs scraped off your shoe.
You know, I’ve never sued anyone in my life, but this would make me think twice. Especially the parents. Might make them think twice about how they’re raising kids. To rationalize it further, if her parents are taking her paycheck, they should reap the costs of their immature daughter’s employment.
A lawyer will probabably want to go after the head manager as well.
Last but not least, if you retaliate by clocking a 16-old girl, it could end up badly for you. Probably a bad idea…
For the love of Pete. You don’t need a lawyer. People bitch and moan about the explosion of litigation? This is why. You complain – legitimately – that some office teasing got a little malicious and you ended up with a bump on the head, and people are yelling “sue!” “sue!”
Just leave the little, er, girl alone. Take no shit from her, but don’t interact with her any more than you have to. She sounds like a wench, but you get credit for at least realizing that not every insult, no matter how small, should send you running for the court house.
Mkay, first of all, please note that I’m not actually thinking about retaliating with physical violence. I made that statement to illustrate the double-standard - she can hit me with an item that, while not lethal, sure hurts a whole damn lot. And I’ll get in trouble for yelling out of surprise.
Suing is just not an option. Imagine what a judge in small-claims court or, say, Mills Lane would have to say about that one. Dream sequence starts here (Ace309 walks into the courtroom, in a white polo shirt and jeans, surgical scars from his plated left arm evident, sideburns groomed and hair spiked to perfection. He is followed by a five-foot-tall girl, 95 pounds soaking wet but only when retaining water, dressed primly in a khaki skirt and sweater.) Now would ANYONE buy an accusation of assault here, or would they assume from the get-go that I’m automatically the bad guy?
Also… come on. My head hurts, but until I suffer some lasting damage, there’s nothing to sue over.
She’s quitting at the end of the week anyway. I’m just doing all that I can to avoid her, and to keep the rest of the employees entertained, I’ve been mock-cowering whenever she comes near me.
For the record, I did not say sue her, file charges means call the cops and have them write her a ticket for simple assault(although it is probably late for that now).
Oh and Zenster, had the chicken fried steak again tonight(second time this week…I think I have a problem…is there a 12 step group?)
IAAL (I so love not having to type I ANAL!), and you are correct - you do not sue the girl.
greenlady? - don’t go for the parents either.
robby? - you were closest, but you don’t go for the manager as such.
Go for the company. You can sue everybody involved - the girl, her parents, the manager - but it is really the company you want. They are the ones with all the money!
BTW - I am not suggesting you do actually sue, but if you do, that is who you go for.
The best thing is probably leave it alone and try to laugh it off, just as you are doing.
