I don’t normally do it, but it was finally time to do it. I quit my job.
I am not the type of person to quit a job without having something lined up, but even I have my limits. First off this was my job: Push carts of cooked fish around a floor that weigh between 250 to 300 pounds, eight hours a day. Basically I move around 250,000 pounds of fish a day. Forget the fact that any requests for assistance went virtually unheard and it started to mess my back up. Forget the fact that when I missed work due to the fact that my back was too strained to go in that the floor was run like shit. Forget the fact that upon returning everyone told me how happy they were to see me.
The fact is this.... Upon confronting a fellow employee about a wise-ass drawing he did, informing him that I did not find it humorous and that it would be brought to the attention of my supervisor, he followed me to my work station from his yelling. I let that slide, informed my supervisor and went on doing my job. To me the situation was over and my supervisor could deal with it in his own manner. I continued to work for about twenty minutes when all of a sudden and for no reason, the "artist" stormed out of his work station in an absolute rage, screaming at the top of his lungs and punching things, all the while continually advancing towards me. I said nothing and place a few carts between him and I and tried to do my work. He continued forward so I moved placing my supervisor, another supervisor and a fellow employee between him and I. Still he came forward. NO SUPERVISOR’S SAID ANYTHING! My supervisor gave me a look like it was my fault when I had done nothing. When I asked my supervisor later what was going to be done about a fellow employee approaching me in such a violent and threatening manner, he stated "I talked to him." Again I asked what was going to be done and I was basically told "Nothing." I then went upstairs to the head of Human Relations. Her response: "I will look into it." Her conclusion "Nothing will be done."
Now I come from the school of a "zero tolerance of violence" in the workplace. I feel that something needed to be done to show that that type of behavior is not tolerated. When nothing was done I saw no alternative but to quit. This was not the first time it had happened with this guy being overly aggressive with co-workers and I knew it would not be the last.
Now comes the real fun. When I post this I am calling the Corporate headquarters in California to inform them as to what has happened. I’ll keep ya posted.
