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bc I swear every day im being hit or slapped or groped or pinched and its not just one coworker doing this, its like half of them. Just today I was slapped by a coworker in front of a customer for throwing a bottle of water at his face πŸ˜’. Curious how much this goes on at your workplaces. and no Im not being abused im just being a shit ass at work

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 44 points 6 months ago

Wtf never. Not only would it get someone fired, it’s a cause for a lawsuit or possibly a crime where I live.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Got slapped for throwing a bottle of water at his face

Sounds like you may be part of the problem, especially if it happens to you as often as you describe Sometimes, when everything is shit, try checking under your shoes

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 months ago

Sounds like a reality TV show

[–] Zier@fedia.io 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I regularly have sex with my boss. . I'm self employed.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago
[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Never. Getting physical with a coworker would be a crime where I live.

[–] shit_of_ass@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 months ago

that’s what I tell the couple of guys who like slapping my ass

[–] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 18 points 6 months ago

Last month I got stomped on by a coworker. My foot isn't 100% yet. I still brushed their hair at the end of the day. Some of my coworkers are horses.

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

I didn't know your situation but you deserve to be treated with dignity and respect at your job. It sounds like the environment isn't great? You're throwing stuff at coworkers and they're slapping you back? Your customers can't be very happy to see that behavior.

To answer your question, that's never happened at a job I've worked at and I wouldn't tolerate it.

[–] maculata@aussie.zone 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your workplace sounds very infantile and possibly toxic.

[–] shit_of_ass@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

its like people there will be thuggin it out then moments later be huggin it out

[–] maculata@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah… you need to GTFO and go find someplace intelligent to work.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

In the civilized world we're not doing this.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 months ago

Absoluetly zero, it has litterarly never happened to me or anyone I know, I know it has happend at a place of work I worked at earlier, but it was dealt with swiftly and correctly.

Why did you throw a water bottle at a coworker?

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 9 points 6 months ago

OP do you work in a physical job? Warehouse, construction, military, something like that? These are the only types of environments where I remember this being weirdly normal.

Everywhere else it’s an easy way to lose your job and/or catch a charge.

[–] stiephel@feddit.de 7 points 6 months ago
[–] Eddyzh@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What country do you live in?

[–] shit_of_ass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Never? I wouldn't tolerate it and wouldn't work at a place that did

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Never, I never got slapped at work, and I also never threw a bottle of water at anyone's face at work, violence begets violence. Either of these sounds like something I would go to HR to complain about.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 6 months ago

Never... Not once... Shit man, that sounds like something you get written up to HR for.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

One wanted to kidnap me but that's it.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago
[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

My workplace can be a bit juvenile like this, but we all understand the key rule. No means fucking no. Sometimes the shenanigans start and someone says "Not today, I'm not in the fuckin mood" and its respected. Some people are shenanigans free zones, you leave those people the fuck alone.

But like you said, you threw a bottle of water at someones face... this shit always gets out of hand, it ALWAYS escalates. You have to remove yourself from the inappropriate behavior chain 100% and make it clear to people that want to persist that you are over it and it needs to stop, if they do it again straight up tell them thats the last time or you go to management and start naming names and demanding they do something.

Sometimes a workplace that is "inappropriate" is fun, not having to be some rigid corporate drone who never speaks unless its in some sanitised language. Sometimes its not.

[–] degen@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

Say psych, right now