to be horrified at my boss - wwyd?

[Moulesfrites]

put this in employment issues but it's a bot quiet over there!

Through an emailing accident, my friend and colleague (we are both currently on mat leave) has found out that our boss has referred to her in an email to another colleague as "a fucking piece of shit who stinks of baby sick". This has followed a number of issues where our boss has made things difficult wrt part time work and maternity leave, and has a real issue with maternity in her department. I have posted on here before about her bullying behaviour and the constant disparaging remarks she makes about babies/children/pregnancy etc.

I am appalled on my friends' behalf (and think my boss probably thinks of me in the same way now, though we had a great relationship before I had ds), and she has decided to let it go, as, crucially, our boss is leaving and will be gone by the time my friend returns from mat leave. Would this usually be a disciplinary matter? Would you raise it with someone higher if you were my friend? I just cant stop thinking about this and it has really changed the way I see my boss and the respect I once had for her.

I'd do what bullet234 suggests. Wrap it up as a present and let her stew, what a bitch.

Oh my God

Report!

She sounds resentful of all you 'baby machines' to me - perhaps she is finding life with just a cat it not quite the same as having a child

Maybe her cat hates her.

Seriously, it does need to be reported. If she has been making comments like the one you describe all the time, then what you have there is a seriously hostile working environment for mothers. Seeing as how 80% of women become mothers, that is institutional sexism. And all this bollocks about not wanting to give part timers extra responsibilities etc. - if this is happening, whether it's written down or not, it counts in law, as a policy and it would be deemed an illegal, sexually discriminatory policy.

This woman may be buggering off elsewhere (where she can spread poison and be in contact with the next generation of children - great), but the environment in which she was allowed to flourish, will still be there. That doesn't sound like the end of the problem for you and your colleagues to me.

As has been said report it, no manager should ever talk about their staff like that never mind write it down.

What happened in the end, Moulesfrite? Did you go to her leaving do? Did you report the email?