Out To Lunch

This week we look at violence. Such violence could be physical, such as where an employee physically assaults his colleague/subordinate/manager/client, or it could be verbal, where the employee either verbally attacks someone he works with, or threatens that person with assault.

Actual physical violence, whether you punch someone in the face - or anywhere for that matter; push them roughly against the wall or a piece of furniture; poke your finger in their forehead; slap them across the face, kick them, or pull them by the collar, is not as rare as we may like to think.  However, more common than these are the verbal expressions of violence, where a colleague threatens to beat another up, or speaks in a belligerent tone, or chooses unpleasant and abrasive words, for instance. Some even go as far as threatening murder - such threats are usually made non-verbally, where someone just runs his finger across his throat and menacingly waves that same finger at his intended victim.