Horrid Boss gets a smack in the mouth
Today, after 19 consecutive days of horrific abuse, I let my boss really f*cking have it.
Background:
I'm currently an MSc Economics student in the UK. Two days a week I work at a very well known PE shop in London. I was a Summer intern there last year and I've been keeping the gig up part time whilst at school.
This month, there hasn't been any lectures as its exam season and mine aren't until June. So, I've been full-time at my shop for all of this month.
Story:
I've been on site every day for the last 19 days - day in day out, no days off. It's in the middle of nowhere, but it's a really interesting deal and, if it goes through, it'll look really good on a CV.
Up until now, I've had a really great relationship with everyone at the shop. That is, until one of the partners here found out I grew up on a council estate (read social housing project) and has given me an absolutely horrid time over it. He's mixed it up with some racial slurs (I have an Irish Father and Italian Mother) that have progressively got worse and worse (giving me the nicknames "woppo" and horrible little potato farmer" is probably the most polite thing he has said to me).
At first, I thought he was just trying to test my metal, so I took it on the chin and got my head down. But then I began to really question what this guy's deal was? He started giving me really unnecessary jobs to do that kept meant the earliest I ever left site was 02:30 am - I'm talking about sh*t like moving boxes of files into his car and repeatedly sending me back and forth with them for no reason, which meant that the actual work I had to do took double the time.
Now, this has been going on for nearly three weeks. Until today, when he made a reference to my Father that just brought out the hulk in me. I'd pulled one of many all nighters the night before and had to meet him early this evening in the on-site canteen to go through some analysis. Before I knew it, I'd smacked him in the mouth, pulled him up of the floor and slapped him really hard in the face. I then walked and I'm on the train back to London right now.
I've had calls, emails and answer phone messages from everyone who has heard about it already - lawyers, accountants and bankers - asking what's happened.
I don't know what to do. What are the consequences of this?





In case this isn't
In case this isn't bullshit....
You could get screwed but so could he. I have no idea what the laws are in the UK but I'm sure that form of abuse is more than just looked down upon. Its one thing to give someone shit, its a while different thing to incessantly rail on someone for ethnic differences. Did anyone see what happened?
Whatever happens, I bet that smack felt fucking amazing.
EDIT for clarity: You need a fucking lawyer, now, and a good one.
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Wow. First off, getting
Wow. First off, getting physical is unaceptable, no matter how much this asshole verbally abused you.
This guy is probably going to seek some kind of legal action. Consult a lawyer ASAP and follow their advice. DO NOT follow any of the advice on this board, it may get you in more trouble, I am being absolutely serious on this one.
Get a lawyer now and don't talk the cops unless your lawyer is present.
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The guy deserved it but you
The guy deserved it but you could get in serious trouble for this. Don't talk to anyone outside your immediate family and a lawyer.
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I wouldn't have done that - I
I wouldn't have done that - I would have punched him the face, then kicked him while he was down. He sounds like a horrible human being.
Seriously, that guy deserves
Seriously, that guy deserves to be out on the streets begging for money. What a piece of shit.
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I actually found myself in
I actually found myself in this very situation when I was a young enlisted Marine. I was one of the top guys in my field and was selected for OCS (Officer Candidate School). I had a dick for a boss and beat the shit out of him at work one day. It effectively ended my Marine Corps career. Problem was, I had another 3 years on my contract. I got shitcanned to the worst jobs and never saw another promotion the entire time I was in. I even went before a meritorious promotion board during the Gulf War and they were all set to promote me until the lone Sgt. Major on the panel reminded them what I'd done a couple years before. No promotion.
On balance, it might be the best thing that ever happened to me. I got out of the Marine Corps as fast as I could and got into finance where I made a shit ton of money. A funny corollary to this story is that the dick in question remained my boss for all but my last few months, and continued to be a pain in mine and everyone else's ass the entire time. Finally, our OIC got fed up with his shit, ordered our entire shop to form a circle in the parking lot, called my boss and I into the middle of the circle, and I proceeded to beat the shit out of him again, this time dislocating his shoulder in the process. A true Marine Corps remedy.
Hopefully Mr.1234 is just being alarmist and finance guys today haven't risen to the level of pussy that would get the cops involved in a gentleman's disagreement. That said, at the very least I'd say you're done there.
Please tell me you documented
Please tell me you documented his taunts, racial epithets, harassment etc. If you did, it will mitigate ALOT...
Kudos to you man. But going forward, God forbid this every happen again, hit yourself in the face first (I've done it when I was drunk and it takes more strength than you know) then fall on the person. Then proceed to whip their ass. They'll be stunned when you hit yourself which buys you time to go give em' a couple of haymakers in "self-defense" immediately after.
Just a suggestion. Good luck.
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Don't worry. I don't think
Don't worry. I don't think he's going to take any legal action. What he's going to lose out of a legal action is much more than any benefit, both monetary and non-monetary.
Monetary Loss: time + $ to lawyers
Non-monetary Loss: reputation
I think he's going to swallow it and you'd soon receive your sacking letter.
I'd say seek legal counsel.
I'd say seek legal counsel.
But, I would have knocked him on his ass for that remark as well without thinking twice. NO ONE is going to talk down on me that much and to that extent without consequences, period.
I have no evidence whatsoever
I have no evidence whatsoever of the things he has said to me. Although witnesses have sympathy with me, they aren't going to put their path to partnership in jeopardy.
I have no evidence whatsoever
I have no evidence whatsoever of the things he has said to me. Although witnesses have sympathy with me, they aren't going to put their path to partnership in jeopardy.
There's no way I can afford a lawyer right now.
mr1234 wrote: DO NOT follow
DO NOT follow any of the advice on this board, it may get you in more trouble, I am being absolutely serious on this one.
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Hopefully Mr.1234 is just being alarmist and finance guys today haven't risen to the level of pussy that would get the cops involved in a gentleman's disagreement. That said, at the very least I'd say you're done there.
The whole world has turned into a big pussy. Shit like that does not fly today.
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Stuff like that actually does
Stuff like that actually does fly outside of the US at times.
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Wow, this guy has to feel
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Wait...help me out here guys.
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