Sounds like everybody involved should get dinged.

You - Unproffesional and hostile behavior. You got your punishment.
Diesel - Assault
Supervisor - Not addressing issues surrounding a hostile work environment. You may have a basis for a lawsuite (I Am Not A Laywer).

Of course we only have your end of things.

With only reading the first post.. I'd fire both of you.

Well, the first time somebody calls me names I ignore it; the second time I get out my Glock 22 and blow their head off.

Dont mess with fat people!

Coda your issue is this will keep happening to you the rest of your life, until you change your modus operandi.

eg little trigger things like

A/ Perhaps not talking about how brilliant you are at work
B/ telling others methods of improving things, i.e. mr know it all
etc

even if theyre true, theyre not in the book 'how to win friends and influence ppl'

Quote: Original post by zedz
Coda your issue is this will keep happening to you the rest of your life, until you change your modus operandi.

eg little trigger things like

A/ Perhaps not talking about how brilliant you are at work
B/ telling others methods of improving things, i.e. mr know it all
etc

even if theyre true, theyre not in the book 'how to win friends and influence ppl'

Indeed. Of course, persons aggressing against you is wrong, Coda, but why do you provoke them?

Sounds like there's a pattern here. You called a guy a "fatty" and he punched you in the face. You dropped an envelope and it hit a guy in the face. He punched you later. What did you say after you dropped it? Did you apologize? Were you sincere about it? Or did you get lippy with him? I don't know about everyone else' experiences, but in mine people normally don't just go punching others in the face for no reason. If it happened once, sure, maybe that guy's just got a problem. But if it's happened to you more than once in the same environment you need to 1: avoid places where you're being punched in the face, and 2: take a step back and ask yourself what you're doing to provoke the face-poundings you're receiving. Be honest with yourself, because I bet you're provoking it.

Quote: Original post by smr
Be honest with yourself, because I bet you're provoking it.

This is what I thought when I first saw this thread earlier. He has a rating of zero on this forum. If that's any indication he probably doesn't understand what he's doing wrong in real life. :( I guess he'd have to ask this Diesel fellow and resolve the problem like adults.

Also I've never heard of this kind of behavior in the workforce. I'm in a professional ethics course at the moment, so this is kind of funny when you try to think of anyone in these situations as being "professional". Calling someone fat is very disrespectful.

However on the plus side the punching should teach him not to do that. Social conditioning can do wonders to some people's attitudes... I think. :) Don't touch the stove.

Fact is the working environment is awful, every body hates each other but I've been there for 3 years doing the same exact thing and I'm getting really tired of dealing with these people so I'm not exactly the nicest person.

The supervisors are always yelling at everyone telling them to hurry up no matter how fast they are going, they curse and call people names as well. Coworkers call me names, seems like their favorite one at the moment is "fag" I believe it's just the environment and the type of people who work there.

I'm just going to start looking for a new job.

Quote: Original post by Pete Michaud
Coda, there is something really fishy about your story. Maybe you work with a group of high school students, but in all my professional working life, I've never heard of behavior even remotely similar to this. The worst I can think of is when someone stood too close to me when he was upset about a deadline.

Before I got a job doing programming, I worked temp jobs doing manual labor, assembly lines, etc. I saw this kind of thing all the time. This kind of workplace behavior mainly happens when it's a job that nobody wants to do, and the workers can't (for whatever reason - motivation, education, ability, economy, etc) get a job they like more. Everyone eventually gets disgruntled just like Coda says.

Quote: Original post by CodaKiller
A guy nick named "Diesel" who is a 30-40 year old man at work punched me in the gut twice after I called him a "fatty" and now I have a bruise... I told my supervisor, she ignored me then I saw the bruise and told her if she didn't report it I was going to call corporate HR. She told some other supervisors and they said "Well it's your fault for calling him a fatty."

This is not the first time something like this happened, same guy also hit me before for absolutely no reason, some guy poured rotten stuff in my water bottle, another guy attacked me because I dropped an envelope from up high and it hit him in the face, he grabbed my shoulder from behind while I was clocking out and started crushing it. Same guy hit me in the head with a box a week or two before while a supervisor was watching...

Yeah you walk around calling people "fatty" and you can't comprehend why they would gutpunch you...

Please seek help. Something tells me your social skills are decidedly sub-par.