At my job (grocery store) I had forgotten to pull up an order in the cash register and the order was never brought up. By the end of the day my boss saw that there was a saved order and he started questioning me where the order was, I gave him my honest answer, which was that I didn't remember where. He then started asking me where it was four more times and yelled at me. Since I didn't know what to say he grabbed a container of hand sanitizer and slammed it with violent force against a table counter. He then threw it to the floor and started shaking and turned completely red. At that moment I felt intimidated and threatened by him; so I decided it was best for my safety to leave early because I didn't know what he would do next. I then informed him that I would leave early and talk to the store manager about the incident. He accused me of threatening him by reporting him to the store manager. Please tell me want should I do? What do I have within my legal rights??
Never make a threat unless you intend to carry it out. If you don't report this incident to the Store Manager, your supervisor will feel free to bully and threaten you again in the future. He over-did it in terms of his intimidating behavior. He obviously intended to do just that.
Let the store manager know so that they are on notice that this guy has an anger management problem and may not be able to control himself in the future.
As far as your legal rights go, there is nothing specific here other than the fact that you have a right to insist in being treated equally without regard to any characteristic that is protected by federal law (race, color, creed, religion, gender, national origin, age (if you're at least 40) disability, membership in or status as a veteran of the US Armed Forces or becuase you have exercised rights under any federal law.
Michael A. Caldwell
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