My boss gets so angry he closes the door and yells at me and two other co workers. Is this legal?

Question

He tells us EXACTLY what to do and then when something else fails hes gets so mad his body trembles. I have 15 years in this line of work and a degree, we are not lazy or kids. Im not afraid of him but I would like to know the best way to handle this.

He is the owner as well. So the HR route is not in play here....

Answer 1

If you work for a small company, you are at the mercy of your boss.

I worked for a guy once, that when we were sitting around with nothing to do, made us go to his home and do gardening.

I, and my coworkers were degreed engineers and geologists.

The best way to handle it is: 1. Update your resume-that way if he tells you to take a hike, you will be prepared when you

2. The next time he does this. Stand up for yourself and tell him to STFU. You are a man/woman that should be treated with dignity and respect. When you do this, get about 2 inches from his face and stare him in the eye.

if he doesn't fire you, he will stop it.

Otherwise, go to HR and tell them that your boss is a maniac and voted most likely to "go postal" and that you fear for your life.

Answer 2

I had similar bosses react the same way and I left. I first emailed my boss requesting a one on one meeting. I addressed how I prefer to be treated with respect the way I am treating them. Being a F.C. Bookkeeper I see things like high volume employee turn over. While re-organizing files I did some journal entries on un-entered stuff and payroll was one of the task. This is something I asked about on the interview if they had a lot of employee turn over and I found out after the fact, both bosses lied. You really don't know how a boss will treat you until you work for him or her. I can say I was pre-warned by other employees in the same firm with me. These employees said they feared losing their jobs so they just took the swearing, yelling and the cut downs because they did not want to look for another job. I cannot do this and after I addressed this type of behavior twice I knew it was time to move on. Life is too short to work for un-professional jerks and be stressed out for something you know you are doing right. I noticed bosses that are born wealthy and did not work hard to get where they are at treat you the worst. Someone that worked hard to own a company really sees and appreciates hard working employees. I guess I need to learn a lesson from this myself and listen to these employees experiences and go beyond in research to find out how this company became established. Hope my experience helped. I will stay firm, as I will leave a firm if they are practicing illegally or if they don't treat me with respect.

Answer 3

First, closing the door and yelling is not illegal at all. As long as he doesn't get physical or threatening in any other way like yelling with a knife in his hand and then throwing it at you, I don't think that a court of law would consider that much.

On the other hand, you own company policies must have something about employees (or management in this case) harassing employees. Contact your Human Resources department. No matter what, if it the failure WAS your part and you were a complete imbecile, you do NOT get paid to be abused. You have every right NOT to take it from your boss. This is free market economy, not slavery driven economy.

In addition, if you know that this was not your fact, you have sufficient evidence (like paperwork or other fellow employees witnesses who saw your boss giving you instructions which eventually lead to failure), or if this has happened repeatedly (that your boss closed the door and yelled at you for screwing up because you followed his own instructions), contact the HR department immediately and/or let the boss know immediately that this was his own fault and you are not here to take his abuse. Let him know clearly, maybe even in writing, that if he want to give you instructions and then have you follow them, he should be yelling at you for the outcome. He should be a man and be responsible for the outcome. If he wants different outcome, then leave it up to you to figure out how to do the job and then he can blame at you for failure (but he still can't yell).

In short, start documenting everything in case something goes wrong and let others know what is going on.

Tell him to grow up and be professional instead of wailing, yelling, and crying like a baby who didn't get fed on time.

Answer 4

That is legal. Unless your boss hits you or throws things at you THEN it is illegal. What you need to do is have a one on one talk with him. Tell him how you feel about the whole thing. If that doesn't work then you need to go to the HR.