Joe the meek
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File a complaint about what? Someone pushing a bathroom door into you hard?
I feel really sorry for the boss having to deal with this childish crap.
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File a complaint about what? Someone pushing a bathroom door into you hard?
I feel really sorry for the boss having to deal with this childish crap.
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Yes. Trying to hurt someone with your fists.... a bat.... a bathroom door...... whatever.... needs to be dealt with. Punks/bullies .... male or female.... need to be dealt with. The victim of their stupidity shouldn't have to feel intimidated and deal with it on their own. That can only lead to worse things.
Personally..... I want to feel safe at work and know that upper management supports that.
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I'm not Joe, obviously, but I will say that a lot of times you DO have to brown nose to progress in your career. When I was promoted to Sergeant back in April every phone call I got was asking me how I managed to get promoted to Sergeant when I don't kiss ass. They work at a different department than I do, though...things don't work that way around here. I said long ago that if I can't progress on my merits alone, I don't want to.
Sorry for the thread hijack, Staci.
I'm not Joe, obviously, but I will say that a lot of times you DO have to brown nose to progress in your career. When I was promoted to Sergeant back in April every phone call I got was asking me how I managed to get promoted to Sergeant when I don't kiss ass. They work at a different department than I do, though...things don't work that way around here. I said long ago that if I can't progress on my merits alone, I don't want to.
Sorry for the thread hijack, Staci.
Joe the meek
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The fact is you don't know how hard the bath room door was pushed into the OP, nor do you know if the person who pushed the bathroom door open was even trying to cause the OP harm. Or do you??
General rule...if you go into work on your day off, their is a chance that you may get caught into some other work that you hadn't planned (guess why? because you're there!), and if you don't want to deal with it, there is a right way to handle it and a wrong way to handle it. From what I've read, the OP handled it the wrong way.
It was assault and battery by the legal definitions... assault is defined as:
- The apparent, present ability to carry out;
- An unlawful attempt;
- To commit a violent injury;
- Upon another.
So, the other person advancing on her with intent to cause harm was assault. Battery is defined as:
- an unlawful application of force
- to the person of another
- resulting in either bodily injury or an offensive touching.
The end result is assault and battery committed by her co-worker, which should be punishable by immediate termination and potential filing of criminal charges. If nothing is done to remove the employee from the workplace, then it is effectively condoning the behavior, which results in a hostile workplace.
It's all pretty simple, and the exact opposite of "childish". Workplace violence is a serious issue, and the offending party should have been immediately terminated. I'm not entirely certain what world you live in where that kind of behavior would be acceptable.
It doesn't matter how hard the door was pushed... it still resulted in offensive touching , and intent of not it still counts as battery at the very least. Given the circumstances surrounding the issue, it seems to be a pretty simple case of battery, and most likely assault.
Joe the meek
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Retro, sometimes you have your head so far up your butt I wonder if you really know what color the sky is.
From the OP's own statement, you have no clue as to what actually happened other than the fact that the OP thought the door was forcefully pushed into her.
Yeah, cops would really love to come out to this one and take a statement:24:
Other than observing the situation first hand, the only information ANYONE here is basing their opinion on is from the OP. Seems I'm the only one that realizes that.
Nope. Neither do you. Or do you?
As retro wrote.... The intent was there.
Pffffftttt..... Even if she had told the new girl to 'fuck off' because she didn't want to deal with her..... The new girl has no right to do anything physical about it. Now if the new girl wanted to get verbal right back..... so be it. *shrugs*
Sticks and stones and all that.......
Joe the meek
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Dude, I can only say I'm ever so grateful I don't have to work with you.
So, if you're walking out of a bathroom and someone pushes the door into you, you're going to file assault charges?
Ummmm..... No shit, Sherlock!
Joe the meek
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Yes, telling a coworker to fuck off will always get you far LOL
You're correct, sticks and stones and all of that. The OP is coming across as nothing more than a bitch herself IMHO.
From what I've read so far from the OP, she better be looking for a job. Then again, I guess her civil rights were violated and she should sue so she could get millions
What *I* realize is that I know Staci well enough to know that she's not one to fly off the handle about little things. If she felt that it was an intentional assault, I trust that it was. Our officers deal w/ much less important issues every single day. If it had happened here a report would be taken and, assuming there are no visible marks, Staci would be instructed on how to seek her own warrants. Even if the entire incident is some big misunderstanding where the contact was no intentional, it still needs to be addressed by management. You can't just ignore things and hope they'll go away as a supervisor...even if there's no satisfactory solution, it still needs to be addressed.
Joe the meek
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Generally speaking, when you give 110%, being nice and going out of your way can be seen as brown nosing by others who aren't progressing as fast as they'd like themselves.
Generally speaking, when you give 110%, being nice and going out of your way can be seen as brown nosing by others who aren't progressing as fast as they'd like themselves.
Joe the meek
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I have no clue to who the OP is.
The OP has however mentioned that there are other issues going on with her job, which could lead me to believe that her perception of the events may be different than what actually happened. Calling the girl in question a bitch does nothing IMO to help the OP's credibility.
There are generally three sides to a story. We're only hearing of one here.
Re: i was assualted
That's their issue, not mine. I've seen people literally come up and hang around, brown-nosing, when up for a promotion. Never seen any of those people actually GET the promotion, though. :24:
That's their issue, not mine.
I've seen people literally come up and hang around, brown-nosing, when up for a promotion. Never seen any of those people actually GET the promotion, though. :24:
Joe the meek
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You still need to be good at what you do
If you're not good at what you do, unless you're related to the big wigs, brown nosing won't get you very far
That's their issue, not mine.
You still need to be good at what you do
If you're not good at what you do, unless you're related to the big wigs, brown nosing won't get you very far
Way to throw out a strawman. That isn't what happened in this situation, is it? Nope, not even close... thanks for playing though. It comes down to intent, and as it was explained, there was very obviously intent in what happened. If someone were to have pushed a bathroom door into me, you'd better believe that I'd be demanding that the person be fired and probably filing charges. If the individual wasn't fired, then it effectively condoning workplace violence which contributes to a hostile work environment... I'm not entirely certain what is so difficult about that for you to understand.
You're the one claiming that pushing a bathroom door into someone after following them is completely acceptable. I think it's fairly safe to say that the one with their head up their ass is most definitely not me.
Joe the meek
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Where did I ever make the comment that pushing a bathroom door into someone is acceptable, particularly in a work environment? My comment about the door "incident" was directed towards the fact no one here knows EXACTLY what happened. I might of missed it, but did the OP receive abrasions or anything noticeable to her body due to the door swinging into her?
For some reason retro, I could see you go crying to your boss because the person sitting across from you is looking at you strange LMFA
Personally, if I was going to push a bathroom door into someone to cause them harm, I'd be following up with the tire iron.
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