Not taking the other persons side .. just offereing some logical adice from the "bosses" point of view in a work place.
Techincally employees are not "supposed" to confront each other when they have personal problems of this nature. And technically if they go to a superior the person who got reported is never supposed to know who told on them.
Why you ask? That is ridiculous. In a normal social situation .. yes that is true. Not so in a work situation.
Well the reason is: to try and keep rifts between co-workers at a minimum.
We all know that not all employees are going to get along. It's just almost an impossible task. But you can try to keep them on a civil level by aserting that when they have problems they bring it to a superior, not to each other. Stress plays a part, so does personal preference. And it's hard to please everyone.
Not only does taking it to each other cause rifts between the 2 employees it can also caused rifts between multiple employees.
IE, the left side of the office likes employee A and the right side likes employee B. When employee A has a conflict with employee B .. one whole side can become agitated with the entire other side. Thus possibly creating extreme tension and turmoil in the workplace.
We don't allow cursing at our work. That way no one can get "offended". We also have a dress code so that the same doesn't happen, and several other seemingly stupid rules (that actually have had meaning in the past at some point).
This day and time employers/employees have to take certain precautions .. because whiney employees like employee A like to file law suits against companies and their employees when whiney employee A gets decked by employee B during a "discussion" while on workplace property.
Sorry you're having a bad time of it though .. I know how bad it sucks to dislike a fellow employee. I have about 3 I'd like to throttle at any given moment around here :lol:.