It took all of my patience, but I managed to keep my cool while a coworker talked down to me. Another coworker approached and asked for my help with something, to which he turned around and replied, "Do you mind? Why can’t you women do anything yourselves?" She responded by smacking him so hard he staggered. I couldn’t stop laughing and IMMD.
Submitted by: Dylan
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booyah! that’ll teach that damned chauvinist!
*high fives teal*
I don’t usually approve of violence in response to aggravation, but that sounds like it was well deserved.
hahahaha! YES!
I don’t count this as a victory. You have the OP, whom I presume to be a man, being patient and dealing calmly with the jackass. The woman, meanwhile, snaps at the first provocation. Not to mention that she’s the one who’ll be fired for assaulting a coworker, whoever rude he was.
“…snaps at the first provocation.” Considering they work together, and given the guy’s attitude, I’d be really surprised if this was the first time he’s said anything like that to her.
And Dylan might be a woman. The fact that the guy who got smacked was “talking down to” Dylan kinda suggests that it is.
I’m hoping Mr. Condescending gets fired. That would MMD.
Haha. That was hilarious reaction, but FC is right. He might get written up for his bad behavior, but she’s the one in most danger of getting fired on an assault charge (which she did commit), whether he really deserved it or not. I’ve never met a supervisor, owner, or manager that condoned workplace violence. Self defense would be one thing, but this isn’t even close.
Yes. But I sure hope Jerkface gets fired too for being a creep to women employees.
Actually, if I were Jerkface and Slappy’s boss, I’d fire both of them.
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Obvious troll is obvious.
Oh get off your high horse. The jack*** deserved it and you know it.
It’s totally a victory, she was just doing what Dylan had most likely been wishing he had the balls to (no offense, Dylan, hers are just apparently bigger). I would have done the same thing, no one gets to speak to me like that and get away with it.
Sounds like somebody needs to go back to kindergarten and learn how to play with others.
By the phrasing “Why can’t you women” women implying plural, I would guess the OP is a woman as well.
Personally, I think this guy totally deserved it and should get more of it more often. Sounds like a douche who doesn’t respect anybody, let alone women.
That usually starts with a lack of respect for oneself. Watch men and women who talk down to others; you’ll see how terribly insecure they are about themselves, and usually with good reason.
Oh dear. Was your co-worker able to keep her job?
Good girl!!! Sounds like somebody needed to take down the co-worker off his high horse
Hehe. I’d love to get in on that. Except I’m a guy, and would deck him for talking like that to a woman.
I’m a woman and I’d take down someone for talking that way to you, too.
In words only unless he/she initiated violence, but the verbal evisceration would leave the douchenozzle huddled up in the corner in a crying ball, rocking back and forth just the same.
Not that the idiot didn’t deserve a bitchslap upside the head to knock in some sense, and perhaps even an attempted kick in the nuts (tiny package, lower odds of hitting target), just that people like that aren’t worth going to jail for or losing an otherwise good job for.
Well, if she gets fired for assault, she can sue the boss for his behavior. Sounds like an ass to me. Like that one manager on the Hooters edition of Undercover Boss. If he did something like what he did to those waitresses to me….. He’d be lucky to walk away with the shirt on his back. Though, her response would feel much more satisfying.
Yeah, I doubt it was the first time that sort of thing had happened between them either. Most reasonable people don’t smack somebody the first time. The fifth, ninth, twentieth – maybe!
Bitch slap
Assault!
But well worth it for the hand mark on his face.
He got pwned.
I dunno.. I don’t like to harsh the win, but it seems like the thing to do in this scenario would be to keep your cool and be the bigger person and make the other person look like a douche (as the OP did do), instead of looking like a crazy beast yourself. and yes, I am a woman, and yes, even though that comment would make my blood boil, physical assault in the workplace is generally not a good course of action.
Well, exactly. I don’t think physical assault is a useful response to unpleasant words and I can’t see how she pwned him when (from what’s in the entry) she seems to have pretty much played up to the sort of weak, unaccountable stereotype he was using. And as much as he’s something biological for thinking that that’s an acceptable way to treat a someone because of her sex, isn’t she more so for thinking that that’s an acceptable way to treat someone because of his?
Unless I’m reading something into this that isn’t there but it does seem to be a classic insult-slap, 1940s sort of routine.
awesome. if the slapper gets fired for that, she should totally sue.
I’ve noticed that, women are only good at making sandwiches and cleaning the house.
HA! Then I suck at being a woman. Since I don’t clean house and you can go make your own damn sammich
Predictable joke is predictable.
The only thing worse than your average misogynist comment is one that’s also a boring, boring cliche.
fuck yeah
While he is a jerk I don’t think voilence in the workplace is going to make him respect women.
I’m shocked to see almost an entire page of commenters who think that assaulting a coworker because he’s ‘being a jerk’ is some kind of heroism. If she goes home and her kids back-talk her and she slaps them, is she still so awesome? If she gets pulled over, should she ‘bitch-slap’ the officer?
What she should have done is turned around, walked straight into the manager’s office, and told him/her exactly what the jerk had just said to her. ‘Dylan’ could back her up. Then she wouldn’t look at all like the bad guy.
Slapping because of insults is for toddlers.
Weenie
And if *he* was the manager?
I can’t stop giggling at this one
I just love how you people make a big issue that she assaulted him. I very much doubt that the kind of person to file a complaint over this. Also I doubt he’d like to admit being owned by a woman.
Woulda been great if you smacked him as he turned in your direction.
*high fives all around*
To the poster who said she could sue the employer if she was fired for assault, I’m curious to what she would exactly sue him over. She did in fact commit a crime in the workplace. The guy being an ass notwithstanding, the eyes of the law are pretty clear. The crime of Assault and Battery (hitting is Battery btw, not just Assault) is not something most employers just shrug off with a “he deserved it” attitude, even if he did. And said employer would be well within his or her rights to fire an employee who strikes another while on the job. And if the woman did try to mount a civil suit, what exactly would be her claim? “I got fired for committing a violent crime at work, but ‘I am womyn hear me roar!’ so give me my job back”?
An appropriate response would have been a witty and scathing retort, not violence.
This is a case of sexual harassment. In her defense, a case of provocation can be established and hysteria-irrational behavior caused by fear, strong emotion or emotional shock-can be upheld in her defense. And I agree and think that this isn’t the first time this behavior has been displayed by him, so she may have “Battered” him, But he verbally “assaulted” her and everyone else he works with.
Fekket? By your comment, I’m glad to see that you don’t seem to have been abused. However, for those who HAVE been abused, and this is clearly a case of abuse, there comes a time for some when the abuse reaches a limit and restraint goes out of the window. I’m not condoning the behavior, merely explaining how this scenario fits into a cycle. Remember, she and others had just been witness to an inflammatory dressing down and she might have felt she was under attack.
Personally, I want to know what kind of boss allows an abusive, denigrating and disruptive personality like his to remain in the work place. Is it a case of nepotism? If the boss doesn’t know what’s going on in his business, or DOES and allows this, its time to find another job if possible. Possibly rock the boat and go to a higher authority.
It’s easy to say “walk away”, but you are looking dispassionately and not LIVING the moment where everyone is caught in the moment and no one thinks clearly. I bet after she did that she was shaking so bad someone had to help her to a seat. I’m extrapolating that she was in shock, dizzy, and sick.
Anyone that can drive another person to violent behavior is a risk factor in a job place; a risk factor PERIOD. Move him to a place where he is not in direct contact with actual people and his little tin-god act does not incite violence. Anywhere, just get him away from people. He is NOT a team player. Therapy will not help this man–there is nothing wrong with him; it’s everyone one else who has a problem.
This is my opinion and recommendation. Otherwise, someone is going seriously injure him.