I was shocked when a friend said this about manager

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I know my friend has been having a hard time at work, but I was shocked when she said she was tempted to mow her boss down with her car when she saw him walking to his car after work. Obviously she didn't, but I was still shocked that she wanted to.

I would find the film "9 to 5" quite cathartic when a boss was being particularly vile.

The thing is if you do seriously injure a work colleague then you will go to prison.That thought is enough to deter most people.
I think what goes around comes around though.

I'd like to run over my DH's boss

This shocked you? You don't get out much. LOL @ telling the police about it.

I've never felt that way about a boss, but I definitely had murderous thoughts about my DSis's ex, when she told me he had been violent to her. It's all in the head, though. When I actually saw him (DH and I were in the process of helping DSis remove her belongings from the house), I didn't say a word to him, just got on with what we were doing.

If I'd actually voiced what I really wanted to do to him, you would have been shocked. I'm too polite to say, though!! Thankfully, thoughts are not illegal. You actually can't help what comes into your head after all.

I'd be more concerned about my '
mild mannered friend' being driven to say such things. He must be giving her one hell of a dogs life.

There was a post recently (yesterday i think) about a woman who is being harrassed/ stalked by a 'collegaue'. She is scared of that womans partner. I dont think she said she had thoughy of violence towards her. But i eouldnt blame her. No idea where that thread went

Someone did not suggest telling the fuzz surely?

That's hilarious

thankfully, we are not at the stage of thoughtcrime quite yet

Oh give it time, Bran

I must have missed it but did someone actually suggest calling the police?

It üouldnt surprise me, Nicky

It was tongue in cheek!

If you believe she meant it, report it to the police

I don't think she would have actually done that to her boss.

meh, we all had people we need to vent against, no big deal.

I had a boss from hell, and I did mention quite a few things I would love to see happening to her and her family. I wouldn't have risked any bad karma by going through any of them.
I did make her lose as many clients as possible, but that was fair game

I had a horrible boss. I fantasised daily about smacking her over the head with a baseball bat.

I was hoping for a few inspiring methods to use in my boss-torturing /killing fantasy moments, but unfortunately there aren't any better than the ones I have already. Bugger.

I think she was probably calm because she was telling you what she thought at the time. By the time she was talking to you, she was no feeling that murderous rage. I bet if she'd talked to you at the time, she wouldn't have been so calm.

Perhaps be less shocked at what she said and more shocked that her boss is making her feel this way. Poor woman is clearly having a hard time. Are you being supportive? Does she have other people to talk to?

It's a shame that her boss is making her life such a misery 😔

It’s not a case of “supporting a different sports team” or not socially wanting to be best mates with everyone or liking a different kind of cake at tea break - workplace bullies are controlling, manipulative abusers who are determined to ruin their targets lives out of hatred and envy.

Anyone who dismisses bullying as “you should be less sensitive” or victim blames has probably never had direct experience of it

I think you are blowing it way out of proportion.

There was an older woman at work who I knew was bitchy about me.

My gym trainer taught me to box & punch 'as if it's someone you hate' well it was that bitchy woman I imagined punching.

I used to have a boss so horrible that every weekend I hoped he would die. And if he had I’d have celebrated. I wouldn’t have mown him down but I’d have probably been tempted like your friend