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There is an Operation Manager who yells at everyone under stress. Doesn't mater if you are a Sales Rep or a person working directly under him. This Manager will yell if he is unhappy. The Sales Rep in Walnut Creek is complaining about how he is feeling verbal abused by the way he talks to him since he needs to work with him so often. Of course he is not talking badly about his race/sex/religion any other protected classes. He is just being rude and the employee feels that this is a hostile environment.
Is this considered harassment? Do an investigation and firing the employee because this is harassment?
The Operation Manager does get the job done but makes the people around him very uncomfortable and feel like they can not work with him.
HELP!
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This is harrassment. A hostile work enviornment leads to unhappy, unproductive employees. This is a liability to the company. No one wants to go to work feeling like they may be yelled at randomly and for no reason. You can and should take some kind of action. When an employee comes to you about this ask them to put the incident in writing. Talk to the operations manager and tell him that he has to change his attitude or you will have to terminate him. Write up a warning and have him sign it acknowlegeing that he understands why he is being written up and that he agrees to get his anger under control and change his behavior. If the harrassment does not stop after the third warning then you have every right dismiss him for harrassment. Any abuse in the workplace is harrassment and should be taken seriously. Using profanity, because it is offensive, could be considered sexual harrassment, and many law suits have been filed due to profanity and verbal abuse in the workplace. This can become a very serious matter if not corrected.
TG
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So what do you do when the manager with the creating the hostile work environment is an owner of the company? I have had a group of employees come to complain about the behavior that is exhibited by the owner (lost of yelling, something about kicking a box); they want to know what their rights are. They aren't throwing out the word harassment, but they are saying that they don't "think she can do this" or "this is wrong"...
What do you do when it's the owner? I obviously need to bring this to her attention - she is not following her own company policy. Any advice?
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