Originally Posted by
Captain Blight
I dunno. I'm a foul-tempered hothead of enormous size, so any static I get is behind my back. I *can* say that if someone pinched my a$$, they'd be trying to pick up broken teeth with broken fingers; and if I got fired for it, whomever fired me would have my lawyer drop a sheaf of 'wrongful termination' lawsuit papers right on their chest in the hospital bed. I guarantee I'd get out of jail before either one was done with their physical therapy. Just because you *think* you occupy the moral high ground is no guarantee you'll win the fight, and the legal system doesn't act as a force field or as armor. The term crime of passion covers a whole lot of ground.
People who say that violence never solves anything are the people who never won a fight. Taking a personal issue to Management to sort out strikes me as the worst kind of passive-aggressive cowardice, and isn't to be used as a day-to-day problem solver. It's tattling. It's being a crybaby. HTFU.
I agree that going to management should be a last resort and can often make things worse. However, not everyone is a foul-tempered hothead of enormous size.
It may get to a point to where management has got to take responsibility for keeping/making their company a decent place to work otherwise they're subjecting themselves to coming out on the short end of a lawsuit.