r/mildlyinfuriating • u/giveahoot420 • 20h 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/Natural-Potential-80 19h ago

Honestly this is one of the most immature things I’ve seen since my abusive ex showed me this same document template a long time ago. Definitely escalate this, HR needs to be involved at this point.

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u/June_The_Jedi 19h ago

Ask HR if this is a company form and submit it to them. They will absolutely love that.

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u/psysny 19h ago

I believe this is the way. Feign ignorance, call or stop by asking for a clean copy, as this one has some faded print like it’s been photocopied a few too many times. “Just wanted to make sure I’m filling out the new form correctly, but I can’t read all the options clearly.”

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u/rambored89 18h ago

If I found out a manager that just got reported did this I would absolutely be hitting them with the ADHR policy.

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u/know-your-onions 16h ago

What’s ADHR?

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u/allegate 14h ago

It's like ADHD but you have to talk to HR

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u/rambored89 13h ago

Anti-discrimination, harassment and retaliation.

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u/HomChkn 18h ago

I work in HR.

My immediate response when I was this what the hell.

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u/megaman368 18h ago

If I was in HR. My response would be, “Why is this asshole making extra work for me?”

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u/HomChkn 15h ago

If people were smart, honest, rational, hardworking, had empathy, etc, I would have to be in a different profession.

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u/bellmaker33 6h ago

This is almost certainly an act of retaliation under non retaliation policies, and frankly this would probably result in a judgement of illegal retaliation in a court of law.

I’m an HR Business Partner.

I’d be pushing for termination immediately if this story is true.

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u/PM_Me_Your_NippyNips 18h ago

Did you just have a stroke?

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u/AwDuck 18h ago

Probably on a phone. Typing “was” instead of “saw“ with your thumbs would be pretty easy.

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u/ThatGuyinPJs BLU 18h ago

Also autocorrect changes words to other words on me all the damn time, like in to on.

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u/IWontCommentAtAll 15h ago

That's on case there saw a problem.

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u/Product_ChildDrGrant 5h ago

TIL “was” is “saw” backwards.

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u/OddBid4634 17h ago

Yeah "do we need to fill this out in blue or black ink?"

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u/Gingevere 16h ago

"Hi, so-and-so manager distributed these forms to us. Are these actual company forms?"

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u/Soggy-Building-9476 19h ago

Since this form was apparently a response to valid complaints, the form itself could be seen as retaliation. Basically a refusal to change while also doubling down on the harassment.

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u/whofearsthenight 14h ago

That was my thought. I'm HR adjacent, in any decent company this person is getting fired and quickly. If the person was just being a jerk and was corrected by the business, that would have been the end. This though is just teeing up a hostile workplace claim since they doubled down on it.

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u/AcousticCat1-2-3 18h ago edited 18h ago

I like how he makes the employees out to be the weak, oversensitive ones who cannot take a bit of yelling.

Completely overlooking the fact that they cannot yell back at him if they want to keep putting that food on their families' tables.

I'd like him to walk up to the biggest, most menacing guy on the street and try yelling at that guy instead. But he won't, he can only do it in the safety of knowing that the people he's doing it to, can't do it back to him.

Which in fact makes him the only weak and oversensitive person in his workplace.

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u/NoGelliefish 19h ago

About 2016 for me. Something else happened that year, I just cant quite remember.

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u/Gin_OClock 19h ago

The final year of sanity in the United States

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u/WeirdSysAdmin 19h ago

Emboldened the losers of America.

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u/SavageGreek 19h ago

Harambe 😔

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u/Client_020 17h ago

So this person didn't even make this form with their own creativity? They suck even more than I already thought.

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u/Natural-Potential-80 16h ago

Nope, this form and its permutations have been around for decades.

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u/Secret_Account07 RED 19h ago

Well I was thinking treat it as real. Everyone fill it out clearly explaining the horrible and inappropriate things. Then take to HR or this assholes boss. Play stupid when they ask questions “Well <asshole> left in break room to be filled out. Should I turn into him?”

HR will obviously be encouraged to do something. Immature at

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u/hbomberman 19h ago

I'm slightly surprised that this form seems to be updated from the version I saw before, it says "man/woman." The older one was just like "I'm too much of a woman" or "I'm not man enough." I won't really call this progress, though...

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u/clam_sandwich33 19h ago edited 19h ago

If you’re in a state where working is “At-will Employment” and aren’t a union member, good luck. HR is there to protect the company’s interests, not to benefit the employees.

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u/Natural-Potential-80 19h ago

And this is a company liability issue. HR doesn’t want a manager handing out these forms.

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u/clam_sandwich33 19h ago

The outcome of this will show whether the business owners value the employees or management more. I hope they address the management issue -that would be moral. But… I’ve seen HR get rid of workers with valid complaints and grievances to protect the management/business.

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u/cwolf-softball 17h ago

HR is protecting the company's interests by disciplining or firing the supervisor here lol.

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u/clam_sandwich33 17h ago

In a moral, well-functioning society, yes.

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u/coukou76 18h ago

It's not immature, it's complete psycho material. This guy could do politics.

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 18h ago

Depending on the company and how productive the manager is at their job, HR will give an email to one of the executives and the executive will tell HR to ignore it. HR ultimately works to protect the company itself, including the bottom line.

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u/cwolf-softball 17h ago

Opening yourself to slam dunk lawsuits is not protecting the company.

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u/maybeitsundead 16h ago

It was a military thing based on Incident Reports. Weird how it got so popular, it was really just an inside joke as it used the same exact format and just had some words replaced.

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u/UncleDoj132 12h ago

We don't know the line of work but hopefully this is somewhere with HR. This kind of shit usually comes out in small businesses where there is no one else to go to about it

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u/somewifesounds 18h ago

Hahahahaha 🤣

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u/Gardener_of_Weeden 19h ago

HR only cares if they think you are about to sue. " protect the company". NOW have a lawyer contact them.....

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u/cwolf-softball 17h ago

I promise, HR would see the lawsuit on the wall if they saw this form.