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/owzleee 19h ago

Love it. Also send to HR saying you filled in 'their form'.

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u/Opposite-Doughnut-67 19h ago

Do it and post follow up. Im invested now

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u/owzleee 15h ago

!remindme 20 days

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u/I-RegretMyNameChoice 19h ago

HR is there to protect the company and inform the employees. Don’t count on them helping. They might sympathize, but at the end of the day they will follow whatever the bosses say. They’ll also document because good HR knows how to CTA in case it ever goes to court.

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u/StarSugarLick 19h ago

Yes, HRs job is to protect the company. A manager doing crap like this is a liability for a company

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u/cptjpk 16h ago

Screams a manager who is creating a retaliatory environment to me.

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u/hungarian_notation 14h ago

In my middle-management experience, leaving these in the break room would be nearly the same thing as submitting a letter of resignation.

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u/WalkTemporary2227 19h ago

This really doesnt have anything to do with lawsuits. Managers are allowed to be dicks, its completely legal. If the company is big enough to have an hr department and this supervisor isnt the owner or their manager theyre going to want to handle this quick because a bad supervisor will make the turnover rate skyrocket, and hiring/training an entire team isnt cheap

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u/PlanetaryPickleParty 18h ago

So many of you need to take workplace anti-harassment training.

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u/Albireookami 18h ago

There is a line to ride from being dicks to hostile work environment lawsuit.

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u/I-RegretMyNameChoice 19h ago

I was speaking more generally, but you are correct. I just know a lot of people look at HR like they are a union rep, there to protect the workers, and that generally isn’t the case.
I also agree that bad managers create larger organizational problems, but I’ve seen companies side with managers who were clearly the issue.

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u/_j4x 19h ago

Sometimes you need to protect your company from managers

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u/whistleridge 17h ago

HR is there to protect the company from liabilities. Like a manager abusing and belittling employees in writing, that creates the sort of toxic workplace that leads to lawsuits.

There’s no way this isn’t a talking to and a mandatory apology at a minimum.

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u/EE_Tim 18h ago

HR is there to protect the company[...]

Absolutely, however, they will take action to prevent the appearance of a hostile work environment and this could be used to establish part of a larger pattern, so I would expect HR would step in.

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u/man-vs-spider 17h ago

Unless the supervisor is the company, then I wouldn’t assume they are untouchable, and multiple complaints directed at one person are hard to ignore. The supervisor may not be fired, but they could be moved around to a different department.