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Poll: Workplace Violence - RF Cafe Forums
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What Level of Workplace
Violence Have You Witnessed?
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| Murder |
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1% |
[ 1 ] |
| Severe Beating |
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1% |
[ 1 ] |
| Mild Beating |
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5% |
[ 4 ] |
| Frequent Loud Yelling |
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15% |
[ 11 ] |
| Occassional Loud Yelling |
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27% |
[ 20 ] |
| Rare Loud Yelling |
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20% |
[ 15 ] |
| Rude Finger Gesturing |
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7% |
[ 5 ] |
| That Thing the Italians Do With
Their Arms |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Other |
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5% |
[ 4 ] |
| None |
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19% |
[ 14 ] |
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| Total votes
: 75 |
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Workplace Violence
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:35 pm
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003
2:02 pm
Posts: 451
Location: Erie, PA
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Greetings: While I have never worked in a
location where someone went postal and started shooting
up the place, I have been around for some pretty
major office temper explosions. In one place
I worked when still a technician, it was common
place for engineers and managers to scream at each
other at the tops of their lungs. That was a defense
contractor company in Vermont, but I won't mention
its name because it long ago was bought out by a
larger company. Hopefully, the yelling has stopped.
The only other instance of note was a few years
back while working as an engineer for a very well-known
RF test equipment manufacturer. I was sitting in
my cubicle when all of a sudden a guy down the aisle
burst out screaming and uttering profanities. According
to his rant, he was sick of being told how to do
his job and was fed up with his boss. I did not
know the guy real well, but he was a respected design
engineer (30-somethingish). He flung open the door
and stormed out; we never saw him again. By the
end of the next day, all the vultures had picked
his well-stocked cubicle clean of test equipment,
probes, coax cables and adapters, software, and
any other salvageable red meat. It was a skeleton
of a place when the cloud of commotion cleared.
It seemed so much like the desecration of a grave
that I almost felt bad for grabbing his network
analyzer calibration kit. So, have any of
you ever experienced a similar or worse situation?
Feel free to describe it to us here in a response.
Thanks.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Curtis Crow |
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Post subject:
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:54 pm
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Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2004
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That Thing the Italians
Do With Their ArmsOmagawd,
that is a riot!
How do you think of that stuff bro. Keep
it up! CC
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archer |
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:17 am
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Joined: Wed Aug 09, 2006
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Location: Northern Illinois
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I want to know who is dishing out the mild beatings.
Sounds like my kind of place.
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Tony
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject:
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:09 pm
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003
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Posts: 451
Location: Erie, PA
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Greetings:
I see we have one case of murder
in the workplace. If this literal or figurative?
If literal, care to add some detail? Place? Time?
Circumstances?
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Earl |
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Post subject:
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:44 pm
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Joined: Wed Apr 05, 2006
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Does violence against oneself count? There
was a woman that worked at our company that was
famous for throwing tantrums and threatening to
quit. A few weeks ago she really went off and screamed
that she's quitting. She stormed out of the building
with only full coffee cup in hand, and managed to
pull the door shut behind her - right into the coffee
cup she was holding. She masher her wrist majorly
and drenched herself with coffee to boot. It was
all we all could do to keep from just roaring out
with laughter. Some were just stunned. She
hasn't been back even to collect her stuff. We'll
probably hear about a lawsuit in process to hold
our company liable for her maiming herself. God,
it's good to be rid of her!!! Earl
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