New Management

[rsjohnsn]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Tennessee

There was a meeting this morning at our office and we were introduced to our new manager. The guy has worked with us for a while now but it was a big surprise that he got the job due to his temperament. Well his temper showed itself on his first meeting. There was a statement made by the group after we were told that our scope of work had changed but there was no more money to go with it (cable contractor). I was one of the guys that said something as well and our new manager stood up and cussed me out twice and called me outside. What if anything can I do about this? I need my job so leaving isn't an option.

Thanks
Scott

[Antigone*of*Greece]

Originally Posted by rsjohnsn

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Tennessee

There was a meeting this morning at our office and we were introduced to our new manager. The guy has worked with us for a while now but it was a big surprise that he got the job due to his temperament. Well his temper showed itself on his first meeting. There was a statement made by the group after we were told that our scope of work had changed but there was no more money to go with it (cable contractor). I was one of the guys that said something as well and our new manager stood up and cussed me out twice and called me outside. What if anything can I do about this? I need my job so leaving isn't an option.

Thanks
Scott

Suck it up. A boss cussing at his employee on his first day with his team isn't illegal.

[mlane58]

You can report his behavior to your HR department, but aside from that nothing illegal has happened.

[commentator]

You can also tell him, clearly and quietly, that you will not accept being cursed and threatened on the job. If you are being respectful and quiet on the job, you have a personal right to expect your supervisor to treat you the same way. Okay, we are allowing that when you were told your pay wasn't going to be upped, but your job duties were going to be expanded, you didn't mouthe off and say you weren't going to take it, blah blah blah! If you talked ugly to start with, then you really don't have a complaint.

But if you were just standing there, and he begun threatening and cursing you, then you can first tell him this is not appropriate, and then tell his supervisor, or your human resources office if you have one. Your alternative is to quit. If you do, you probably will not be approved for unemployment. If they fire you, backing up those verbal threats, they have to prove you actually had misconduct. So if you know you are not doing anything wrong, don't pay any attention to verbal abuse, yelling, etc by the new supervisor. If it works, and you work harder and better for him to try to get the yelling to stop, then they will say he is a good and successful supervisor. I would just ignore him, and do the job as best I could anyway.

If you want to, you can quit. If they want to, they can fire you. But what they are going to ask is, 'What did you do to try to resolve the situation before you left?' when you file for unemployment. So make sure you did try before you quit. As far as suing somebody, calling the labor board, or anything like that, it sounds like you don't have any recourse.