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Nah. Hard disagree. If you're doing something stupid and are told politely several times to stop doing it but then continue doing it? Especially when your actions are wasting thousands of dollars and putting people at risk due to the environment you're in? You deserve to be yelled at.
If you believe your own personal decision gets to trump the financial and literal health of someone when everyone had to make extreme sacrifices to be able to do this and you just didn't want to? You deserve to be yelled at.
Politeness has its limit.
Or, you know, you handle it like a healthy, well adjusted, adult with anger management skills. That’s also an option.
If someone can’t handle mistakes being made without screaming, they have no business being in management and need to spend a little more time in therapy.
You're assuming they haven't tried that road. Again and again and again.
Some people need the volume turned up to get it
Then they aren’t a good fit for the position. They need to be moved somewhere they are a better fit or terminated
As I said in another response, not only is yelling a great way to make the workplace hostile for everyone in the general vicinity but it’s also not a particularly effective way to deal with conflict
There are countless better methods to deal with a problem.
You're 10-ply, bud.
Or, you know, they value human life enough to actually get emotional instead of being clinical as hell.
I'm sorry but if I work somewhere and find out that a coworker nearly killed me after being politely told not to a half dozen times, I'm going to be furious. I'm going to become murderous if I then find out management were super polite and wore kid gloves about the dude nearly killing other people after they've been told a half dozen times that they're nearly killing people.
I agree that yelling shouldn't be the first thing but there is 100% a point in which case you deserve to be yelled at if you're ENDANGERING LIVES or you have repeatedly been told to stop wasting everyones time and money when you're out filming in the middle of the fuckin' desert.
Valuing manners over teaching someone a lesson so someone else doesn't get killed is never an argument you will successfully make with me. Just a reason for me to not trust you to do what needs to be done if all hell were to go loose.
Okay?
I have worked on manufacturing floors and egregious safety violations are an immediately fireable offense. Minor violations get one or two serious talks followed by…. Once again, termination. Someone who can’t be bothered to follow safety protocols shouldn’t remain on the floor.
Yelling at people is not only a great way to make for a hostile workplace for everyone in the general vicinity, its also not a particularly effective way to deal with the problem.