To wish I had reported this woman

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I was only working with her temporarily, but she raised her voice at me over something, twice. I just told her I wouldn't be spoken to like that.
She was a little nicer after that, until I picked up the wrong thing and she literally knocked it out of my hand on purpose and shouted "Working with you is stressful!"
I just froze really, it was so aggressive. I just felt self conscious around her after that.
She would make conversation but I just felt nervous and tried to avoid her. Then at one point she walked past me and said, "Ooh, that smile." I had no idea what she meant.
Then at times she would be nice and smiling but I just knew I'd never have to see her again. I wish I could have been stronger and challenged her when she knocked the thing out of my hand.
Has anyone else just frozen when stuff like that's happened? Would you report it now?

I have often frozen in situations and then looked back and regretted not handling it differently.

She sounds really bizarre !

She sounds very odd. When you get taken by surprise you don’t always react how you would wish.

I think it's quite common to freeze when someone does something so outside of acceptable behaviour for the environment; it's like our brain needs time to believe it actually happened and then the moment to act has passed.

Don't beat yourself up for not doing anything at the time, you retained your professionalism which is why you didn't reflexively react with a WTF.

What would you gain from reporting her now? Would it restore some confidence for belatedly standing up for yourself? You were not a doormat here, you were caught unawares by outrageous behaviour, we all are from time to time no matter how assertive we are usually.

She sounds like a loose cannon. You probably did the right thing tbh.I think your instinct to lay low was right. Sounds like she was looking for a reaction to exploit.
Met several people like that.

I would, because her behaviour was bizarre. It needs to be flagged up as a potential issue for other colleagues.

Sounds like a workplace bully who does just enough to humiliate other people without doing anything obviously bad that they get in trouble for. I worked with a woman like this for a few years when I was 18. I never did anything about it but would go home and cry. I always wish I'd reported her at the time but she ended up suspended for bullying someone else.

How long ago was this? If it was last week maybe, if it was last year then no.

Did you post about this before? If so, then it's obviously troubling you a lot so talk to your manager about it even if it's not officially reporting her. If it is the same case, and it she's agency care staff, it could just be you're both stressed and it's a clash of styles - last post I remember being more positive about how she'd taken it well when you stood up to her, so it didn't seem that big of a deal. More of a tough job and her being snappy. But if it's worse than that, say something.