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       #Post#: 28912--------------------------------------------------
       Disrespect?
       By: Kimberami Date: April 4, 2019, 8:18 am
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       Just for some background, I work as a support person (non-sworn)
       in law enforcement department. I am in department A. Coworker
       works in department B. Coworker is known to be a show
       off/braggart.  We both fall under the same line of command, we
       both report to the same Captain, Major, Chief, etc. Coworker is
       in no way my superior. Further background, our bosses aren't in
       the office this morning.
       When I walked into work today, a coworker screamed a directive
       down the hall at me. He was about 20 feet away from me, and he
       screamed at the top of his lungs. The directive was completely
       useless because it lacked any information that would be useful
       for me to do anything to assist him. I feel that he only did
       this to show what an important person he is. What is worse, he
       had a group of new hires with him. Now they may think that this
       is the proper way of addressing a member of support staff. I
       looked at him and walked away. I didn't feel that it would have
       done me any good to address the matter with him in the hallway
       early in the morning. I feel very disrespected. If our mutual
       boss had been in the office, Coworker would have never yelled at
       me like that.
       Am I being too sensitive? Would you bring this up to your
       supervisor? Would you have said something to Coworker in the
       moment?  Would you say something to Coworker later?
       The funny thing is when we were cross-training the new hires a
       few days ago, I told them that they should take care to show
       respect to their support staff. I'm hoping that my walking away
       from Coworker (rather than responding) showed them how effective
       that kind of behavior is.
       #Post#: 28913--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Disrespect?
       By: Jem Date: April 4, 2019, 8:26 am
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       I am not sure I know what “screaming a directive” means? Can you
       clarify?
       Regardless he should be showing everyone respect.
       #Post#: 28914--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Disrespect?
       By: gramma dishes Date: April 4, 2019, 8:31 am
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       No.  You are not being "too sensitive".
       I would indeed discuss it with your direct supervisor.  I would
       mention that you felt disrespected, but that mainly you are
       concerned that it might have been extremely confusing to the new
       hires as to what constituted appropriate work behavior.
       #Post#: 28916--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Disrespect?
       By: Songbird Date: April 4, 2019, 8:39 am
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       I agree, discuss it with your supervisor.
       Most likely this was aone-time occurrence.  You know, "he must
       have been having a bad day"  kind of thing.
       but if it isn't, you want to let your superviosr know what's
       going on so that the problem doesn't escalate.
       #Post#: 28917--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Disrespect?
       By: Jem Date: April 4, 2019, 8:49 am
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       [quote author=Kimpossible link=topic=1081.msg28912#msg28912
       date=1554383880]
       Just for some background, I work as a support person (non-sworn)
       in law enforcement department. I am in department A. Coworker
       works in department B. Coworker is known to be a show
       off/braggart.  We both fall under the same line of command, we
       both report to the same Captain, Major, Chief, etc. Coworker is
       in no way my superior. Further background, our bosses aren't in
       the office this morning.
       When I walked into work today, a coworker screamed a directive
       down the hall at me. He was about 20 feet away from me, and he
       screamed at the top of his lungs. The directive was completely
       useless because it lacked any information that would be useful
       for me to do anything to assist him. I feel that he only did
       this to show what an important person he is. What is worse, he
       had a group of new hires with him. Now they may think that this
       is the proper way of addressing a member of support staff. I
       looked at him and walked away. I didn't feel that it would have
       done me any good to address the matter with him in the hallway
       early in the morning. I feel very disrespected. If our mutual
       boss had been in the office, Coworker would have never yelled at
       me like that.
       Am I being too sensitive? Would you bring this up to your
       supervisor? Would you have said something to Coworker in the
       moment?  Would you say something to Coworker later?
       The funny thing is when we were cross-training the new hires a
       few days ago, I told them that they should take care to show
       respect to their support staff. I'm hoping that my walking away
       from Coworker (rather than responding) showed them how effective
       that kind of behavior is.
       [/quote]
       As my earlier post indicated, I don't know that I understand
       what "screaming a directive" means, but I do think I would have
       done something other than look at this person and walk away. Are
       you support staff and he is not? He should not be disrespecting
       you regardless, but if he was asking you to do something that is
       your job to do (whether he is "your superior" or not), I don't
       think refusing to do that thing is a good look either. Had it
       been me, I probably would have responded with, "B, what an odd
       way to ask me to do ____!" to make it clear that I would do MY
       job but that talking to me in a disrespectful way is not
       appropriate.
       #Post#: 28919--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Disrespect?
       By: Hmmm Date: April 4, 2019, 9:21 am
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       I'm assuming the useless directive was something along the lines
       of
       "MY COMPUTER IS NOT LOGGING IN. FIX IT!"
       If similar, I would approach the co-worker later and inform in
       that in future, if he should need assistance he should request
       assistance and provide necessary information and as he saw, you
       do not respond to screamed nonsense.
       Unless this behavior is repetitive, I'm not sure I would bring
       it up to my boss. It's hard to get the point across without is
       sounding your upset he
       didn't ask you nicely. Barring truly egregious or illegal
       behavior, I expect my employees to try and deal with issues
       between them first before bringing it to me. If they've
       attempted to address the issue, it's fine for them to escalate.
       #Post#: 28921--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Disrespect?
       By: Jem Date: April 4, 2019, 9:54 am
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       [quote author=Hmmm link=topic=1081.msg28919#msg28919
       date=1554387704]
       I'm assuming the useless directive was something along the lines
       of
       "MY COMPUTER IS NOT LOGGING IN. FIX IT!"
       If similar, I would approach the co-worker later and inform in
       that in future, if he should need assistance he should request
       assistance and provide necessary information and as he saw, you
       do not respond to screamed nonsense.
       Unless this behavior is repetitive, I'm not sure I would bring
       it up to my boss. It's hard to get the point across without is
       sounding your upset he
       didn't ask you nicely. Barring truly egregious or illegal
       behavior, I expect my employees to try and deal with issues
       between them first before bringing it to me. If they've
       attempted to address the issue, it's fine for them to escalate.
       [/quote]
       Regarding the bolded....
       I do think it matters what the "directive" was. If the OP was
       being asked to do something her job requires her to do, I think
       she should not refuse to do that thing or ignore the request.
       But that does NOT mean that she should have to put up with
       rudeness from this guy. I agree 100% that addressing this with
       him directly makes sense, and only escalating if he keeps being
       rude.
       So that's why I think the OP should not have just walked away
       (if he was asking her to do something her job requires her to
       do). Different people are going to have different ways of asking
       for things and not everyone will agree on what is "wrong" or
       "rude." Without being there, we don't know what this guy said or
       how he said it, and it could be that most people would have been
       fine with it. So the OP should make it clear to this guy that
       SHE is not fine with it.
       #Post#: 28926--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Disrespect?
       By: Kimberami Date: April 4, 2019, 10:15 am
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       The gist of the directive was "Kimpossible! Find out why OUTSIDE
       AGENCY contacted me!" If OUTSIDE AGENCY contacted him, he would
       have a reference # or a contact person. There would be no way
       for me to know who, what, when, where, why someone from there
       was looking for him. Plus, how would I know anything as I'm
       walking in the door?
       But...almost an immediate update....
       Coworker came into my office a few minutes ago without his
       audience, and he was sweet as pie. He made his request and gave
       me the information I needed. I complied.
       I really think he just wanted to throw his weight around in
       front of the new people. I'm not going to talk to the superiors
       about it, but I might mention a unit on dealing with support
       staff to our training department.
       #Post#: 28928--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Disrespect?
       By: Songbird Date: April 4, 2019, 10:19 am
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       [quote author=Kimpossible link=topic=1081.msg28926#msg28926
       date=1554390957]
       The gist of the directive was "Kimpossible! Find out why OUTSIDE
       AGENCY contacted me!" If OUTSIDE AGENCY contacted him, he would
       have a reference # or a contact person. There would be no way
       for me to know who, what, when, where, why someone from there
       was looking for him. Plus, how would I know anything as I'm
       walking in the door?
       But...almost an immediate update....
       Coworker came into my office a few minutes ago without his
       audience, and he was sweet as pie. He made his request and gave
       me the information I needed. I complied.
       I really think he just wanted to throw his weight around in
       front of the new people. I'm not going to talk to the superiors
       about it, but I might mention a unit on dealing with support
       staff to our training department.
       [/quote]
       sounds like a plan.
       #Post#: 28942--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Disrespect?
       By: bopper Date: April 4, 2019, 1:41 pm
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       I would talk to your boss...."A strange thing happened yesterday
       morning. I was walking in at my normal time and then Pat
       screamed...and I mean yelled loudly, "Get the file for me!".  No
       hello, no would you be able to help with the Clark file...just
       screaming.  What was worse is that he had a group of new hires
       with him.  I would not want the new hires to think that 1) You
       scream at your coworkers to get them to do something  2) You
       can't say 'get me the file" without giving information about
       what file and 3) You can be  misogynistic and scream at women. I
       have never seen him do that to a man.  (if Pat is a man) 4) You
       can Act  like this just because management is not around.
       Can you have a talk with Pat and the new hires about that?"
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