Timeline for How to deal with a boss who always shouts and yells at most members of his team?
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| May 20, 2016 at 23:13 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | @ChristopherEstep ...indeed. HR's function is to protect the company, not individual employees. Something to keep in mind. | |
| May 20, 2016 at 6:59 | comment | added | Fiora the Ferret | @ChristopherEstep True, it's risky but with a boss that bad would any other action (apart from acquiescence) have turned out differently? | |
| May 19, 2016 at 16:23 | comment | added | Chris E | I worked for a public company subsidiary and had a boss who was a bully like this. Managers in other departments heard him screaming at me and one told me I needed to go to HR. My boss was offsite the rest of the day and I went to the HR director who said she would set up meetings with our department to discuss it the next week. The boss heard about it, came back in to the office and fired me that day, having a low-level HR clerk process the paperwork, even though the HR director was in her office. This is a cautionary tale that going to HR doesn't always work out the way you hope. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 15:40 | comment | added | Fiora the Ferret | The point is, the OP was describing persistent abuse of multiple individuals over a period of time - that is, behaviour that has become totally entrenched by being implicitly condoned for a long time. I totally agree that if the boss had acted out of order on one or two occasions, that would be very different. In an ideal world we wouldn't be starting here, someone would have taken the initiative much earlier. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 15:31 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Powerful people say "I'm going to attempt to solve this problem" before breaking down, running to the nearest authority and going "he/she is abusing me!" then waiting for somebody else to fix it. Of course, if you've tried and failed, then ... well it's a work environment so if your boss is not responding to basic human social techniques then maybe you need to get HR involved. But it should certainly not be your first step. I'm certainly not saying people don't have a right to go to HR in the first instance (they absolutely do), but that it would not be my recommendation, & I wish fewer did. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 15:11 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @LightnessRacesinOrbit: sure, if you can avoid crying while reporting abuse then do so. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 14:38 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Immediately taking the step of crying to somebody else when you can solve this yourself very simply (see other answers) seems like a huge overreaction. Life is most fulfilling when we sort things out ourselves; we don't need to start legal action every time someone says a mean word. Besides, this is likely to make your relationship with the boss much, much worse instead of improving it. Not a good plan. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 9:21 | history | answered | Fiora the Ferret | CC BY-SA 3.0 |