Santosha
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- Joined
- Feb 1, 2011
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- MBTI Type
- HUMR
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- sx
As I was passing by his island, the ENTJ man was with a group of friends, and at the right point I was passed by him, he started talking about when he studied in another country and he used to beat gay people there, and he made a really loud comment saying that our company is being "infested" by gay people and he would like to exterminate them all.It really pushed my buttons, and I turned around and said: "me?". This was enough to make him irate and he started babbling about not talking to me, but to his friends while I was passing by, and that I'm paranoid, etc. His friends started asking him to shut up, but he didn't stop and was getting really angry to the point of almost hitting me.
I continued walking my way to the manager and the manager told me not to take that situation personally, and I told him that it wasn't the first time that kind of thing has happened and I was full of it.
My issue is in the bolded. Based on how you described this, it seems that the manager is already very aware of having a loose-cannon employee and a hostile work environment on his hands. What concerns me is that typically as soon as this occured in a well regulated, zero-tolerance company, the employee would have been written-up if not terminated (after the paperwork went through HR). It leads me to believe that you may not have the support network or legal ramifications that you should have.
If this issue comes down to safety, your safety is #1. It is trajic and intolerable that these kind of work conditions could exist, but I hope that if you genuinely feel physical threat and do not have appropriate saftey-nets in place to ensure your well-being, you leave.