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What do you do when you are told about aggressive behaviour but asked not to do anything?

Nicola Halls

I have just had a member of staff (I will call him number 1) come and see me about an aggressive encounter with another member of staff (I will call him number 2)   Number 1 was working in his work bay in a manufacturing workshop and number 2 went into number 1's bay.   Number 1 asked number 2 want he wanted and number 2 went right up to number 1's face and said I don't like you and you say anything to me I'll "drop you" and then he

Number 1 was working in his work bay in a manufacturing workshop and number 2 went into number 1's bay.   Number 1 asked number 2 want he wanted and number 2 went right up to number 1's face and said I don't like you and you say anything to me I'll "drop you" and then he said "i'll slap you".   

Number 1 just reported this to me but expressly said that he doesn't want me to do anything about it.    He just wanted to report it to me.    

Number 1 believes it stems from a few weeks previously when number 2 came back from a sickness absence relating to shingles.   He walked into number 1's bay and he said he asked number 2 "you're not contagious are you?".  Number 2 said he wasn't and walked away.   Number 2 hasn't spoken to number 1 since.   

I explained that I cannot condone aggressive behaviour and that I don't like the idea of not being able to address the issue but he asked me not to.  

Any suggestions on what I can do next - or should i just write up a file note and leave it?

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  • Welcome Nicola - I didn't notice - - how remise of me...!!

    BTW, Mrs P was a Relate couple counsellor. They were always taught that if anyone said anything that was illegal or likely to be evidence of something illegal that regardless of the client's wishes, she was to tell them she could not keep this confidential.

    And of course that is the position you are now in and you have a duty to protect your employer too, which is where your loyalties, as a manager lay.
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  • Welcome Nicola - I didn't notice - - how remise of me...!!

    BTW, Mrs P was a Relate couple counsellor. They were always taught that if anyone said anything that was illegal or likely to be evidence of something illegal that regardless of the client's wishes, she was to tell them she could not keep this confidential.

    And of course that is the position you are now in and you have a duty to protect your employer too, which is where your loyalties, as a manager lay.
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