shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
"customer always right". yes, he barked and swore, but he didn't do anything illegal. and it was not unreasonable for him to expect that i not drop the tool. that was the first, last and only time i dropped a tool.
He'd probably get away from it in the USA, where employers have more freedom than they do in the UK. But he might have been open to legal retribution in the UK, if it could be proved:
https://hr4uk.com/blogs/swearing-at-wor ... isconduct/People drop things sometimes. It's rarely through malice or negligence. People have accidents.
Anyway, I just thought of another thing I'm bad at - asking for help. I can usually manage to do that when it's become urgent, but not otherwise.