Can he ring my place of work?

[RyanSpyan]

I mean I know he can but will he be taken seriously?
My sisters abusive partner, who is absolutely vile is threatening to ring my work and tell them untrue things about me.
Me and my mum got the police and social services involved because of violence and he's been disgusting since.
I know it's all threats so far but I wouldn't put it past him.
I'm quite worried and it would be so worried

Also Namechanged

If i was you Id pre empt it and have a word with your boss. Explain the situation to them just incase

Give them the heads up so they can tell him to fuck off asap.

Had this once. I just had a pre-emptive word with the manager. It didn't happen anyway - was just threats as it turned out.

Maybe I should email my manager as I'm not back in work until Friday?
I suppose I will have to tell her the back story too. Arghh

I’d speak to them first, but as a manager if some ranty bloke rang saying a load of extreme stuff about an employee my first response would be ‘blimey poor Rysnspyan is being stalked/harassed’ not ‘well this must all be true.’

The thing with mad people is even when they think they’re being so subtle they sound mad. So they might ring and say ‘oh I’m terribke sorry to ring but I have to tell you ryanspyan is very violent’ try saying it out loud, it sounds mad!

Just send her an email saying: just do you know, my sister had an abusive ex. I’ve supported her in leaving him and he’s resorted to threatening me. Social services and the police are aware but there is a chance he’ll contact you to try to continue his campaign against me through work.

You don’t need to give her all the ins and outs.

@UnderMajorDomoMinor Great! Short and simple.
Will write it up tomorrow.

We had a similar situation at my old workplace with a lovely colleague and her abusive ex - we circulated his photo to all the security staff in case he turned up, and let the switchboard staff know that if he rang he was to be put straight through to a specific manager who would tell him where to go, in no uncertain terms. None of us asked her for any details, and although he never made contact, she felt much better knowing there was something in place to protect her.
Definitely tell your boss.

As someone who has worked in HR previously, I can tell you that offices receive calls and personal visits like this - it does happen, you won't be the first or the last if it happens to you. The reasons for the visits/calls are never actually anything to do with work though so there's nothing to take action on, please don't worry!

Same but different, but a colleague's estranged abusive husband (she'd just left him) emailed another of my colleagues advising that she was having an affair with her partner, listing a pile of awful things about colleague, really nasty. And cc'ed in the whole branch- all our email addresses are available on the website. Work were proactive and got everyone to ignore and delete, and when he didn't get the reaction he wanted he emailed our UK Director and Global CEO. Eventually they had to block his email from our servers.

No-one took him seriously for one moment but we all had an inkling what he was like and so knew immediately this was him trying to get at her. I'd give your boss the heads up, doesn't need to be chapter and verse- "DSis' extremely volatile partner has threatened to contact my and other family members' employers. His name is xxx, please do not connect his calls to me". Your poor DSis though.