Have you ever shouted in Work?

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In anger, rather than over the noise of the boiler room?

I have. At a colleague who ate roll mop herring at his desk. I was just pregnant and it made me heave all day.

No and I’m currently on my second pregnancy. If I shouted at my work I’d probably have been pulled aside by a manager.

Shouting at someone is particularly unprofessional and if someone shouted at me at work I’d feel intimidated.

I mean shouting at someone as opposed to shouting about a shit situation (just been made redundant etc).

Only while playing Call of duty at lunch time :) Being shot when you stopped to answer your phone is not cool!

Only once. I was depressed and had been humiliated in a meeting, so I told a manager to get to fuck, slammed the door and went home. I was terrified afterwards that I would be sacked. What actually happened was the manager phoned me to apologise and beg me to go back in the next day. I wouldn't make a habit of it though. I baked enough cake as a peace offering to feed the five thousand.

Nope. Not acceptable work behaviour, I'd fully expect to get pulled up for bullying/harassment if I did. But I work in the public sector and my employer is very hot on promoting acceptable workplace behaviours at the moment.

Plus, I'm lucky because there is not much in my job that is worth expending that much emotional energy on!

No. I've been argumentative and pissed off, but haven't raised my voice and have always tried to put my point over respectfully and professionally.

Yep. Same as others have said, in a working kitchens. I've been screamed and sworn at from a young age (I started as a kitchen porter just before I turned 12 (it was a small village pub) and was being yelled at by chefs and restaurant owners pretty quickly. I ended up with a very thick skin at work but never shouted back so when I was working for a very arrogant shithead chef so far up his own arse because according to him, he -not the restaurant he worked in- was awarded a Michelin Star decades ago (big whoop) I yelled back one day. It felt great. He was screaming at a brand new young waitress so I gave him what for. Told him to shut the hell up, leave her alone and I'd take the bloody order out. He could have fired me but he just shut his gob.

And OP, why the actual fuck would someone be so dickish to eat a rollmop herring at work?! A guest once pulled one out when they were staying with us and I wanted to give them their marching orders! My kitchen stank to high heaven! There are few things as stinking and vile as pickled bloody herrings and it is very unsociable to eat them around others. I think I would have yelled too.

I teach Reception so no, I've never needed to. I think with very young children if you're truly shouting you've lost control and need to step away for a minute rather than raising your voice.

Shouting in the workplace is just wrong. It shows a basic lack of respect for the people around you. We have lots of pregnant women in the office, many of whom get annoyed by what people eat in the office (have one guy who eats a Bangladeshi tiffin at his desk) but they don’t feel the need to shout.

Yes I was working in a care home and had reported a colleague to the home manager who I had found to be asleep (night shift) and had not noticed one of the residents in his unit had fallen causing a bad break. The next shift at hand over he walks in and screams at me for reporting it and how he would have found the resident eventually. I completely lost it as not one of the five other members of the night team said a thing they just sat there nodding at what he was saying. I am usually very shy and never argue with anyone but I completely lost it that night. It really wasn't my finest hour.

No, it's utterly unprofessional. Yes, I do get exasperated like everyone else, but as adults we're meant to be able to develop coping strategies.

A colleague of mine, senior management, does this. He's universally known as the guy nobody wants to work for to the extent that one of my graduate trainees insisted he'd resign if he got re-assigned to that guy's team for his next training assignment.

Shouting at work is always unacceptable. When managers do it, it's also abusive.

I loathe shouting in the workplace...unless it's something like "that photocopier is about to fall on you".

That said, I've needed to raise my voice in order for them to hear me say my pat response which is:
"Ring me back/come back when you've calmed down"

Crispbutty* agreed there is no place for risking health & safety, and you need to act fast, but there is always a better way than shouting at your colleagues.
Also agree with others that we are all human and may snap, but there is always a cool calm & collected manner that people are far more likely to listen to.

In addition: shouting at someone for what they eat - so long as it's not boiled baby in a broth of freshly harvested sweat shop workers' tears, is just off. It'd make me seriously question your judgment and your ability to emotionally cope with your job. A polite explanation along the lines of 'the smell of your food makes me heave; I'm pregnant. I'd really appreciate if you could refrain from eating smelly foods in my presence for the time being' would have been a lot more appropriate.

I've always worked in customer facing roles so no, I have wanted to shout at incompetent colleagues however. The temptation is massively there as I work remotely a lot so our conversations are generally over the phone rather than face to face.

I've been screamed at but I held my tongue and went to HR over her behaviour, she then tried to cry and hug me the next time she saw me.

Once because I was being shouted at and ended up losing my temper. Manager had asked for something on his desk by 5 dropped everything, handed to him at 4 and got my head ripped off because it was late......

Once. When I was a Nurse.
Long story short, a Consultant made a decision that put a young man in my care at serious risk. I tried to explain why it wasn't a good idea and suggested an alternative course of action but he wouldn't listen. When things inevitably went horribly wrong, (we didn't lose the patient but came very close) as a direct result of his decision, he deliberately misled the family about what had happened. Later, the case was mentioned in a meeting where we were both present and he strongly implied that it was the Nursing staff who were to blame. When I attempted to defend my colleagues he spoke over me and made a "calm down, dear" sort of joke.
After the meeting I asked to speak with him privately and challenged him about this. I did my best to remain professional but his response was so patronising and arrogant that I just lost it. I can't remember exactly what was said, there was a lot of unpleasantness on both sides, but I think I called him a "patronising twat" at one point. I'm not proud of myself but what's done is done.
In the days that followed I waited anxiously for a formal grievance to be raised against me but it never happened.

Very glad to be out of it all now.

yes, when i tripped on my safety clogs and fell over and broke my foot. it hurt!

My boyfriend had an argument with his boss at work was was being a complete dickhead and very unreasonable. They ended up having a bit of a tussle and he called his boss a fat fucking cunt. They kind of made up afterwards. He got a payrise after that!

Kitchens are hot and high pressure, I get that. I've worked in hospitality since I left school.

I once left a job in a very nice restaurant because the chef screamed at me so furiously that the customers heard, stopped eating/talking, and apparently just sat there staring at the kitchen door.

I hadn’t answered the bell quickly enough. I was busy dealing with a tricky customer, I couldn’t get away. Later on in the shift he walked past me and shoved me into a plate rack.

He “resigned” the next morning, but management begged him back and offered him a fucking pay rise. I walked out. Fuckers.

I work with totally fucking lovely people now. If the diners can hear anything through the kitchen doors it’s laughter.

I've worked in all kinds of kitchens and never been shouted at there. I know it's hot and high pressure but there's no need. In fact we've always had a laugh in kitchens!

Only once, when we had a medical emergency at work and I needed immediate assistance. But I shouted for someone, not at them.

Otherwise, no of course not. It's totally unprofessional and rather self indulgent.

Only once, when my boss had asked me to show a temp how to file. The temp didn’t want to do the filing and kept answering his mobile and speaking in Russian to someone (he had a part time job translating). In the end I shouted ‘will you just listen to me?’ He still didn’t take any notice so I reported him to my boss, letting him know I’d shouted, and he let the temp go that afternoon.

No but I screamed like a banshee and ran away when a spider decided to join me at my desk. Everyone was very patient and understanding about it, not