THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

Aggression From Your Supervisor

You are a quality inspector. After making your own calculations, you disagree with your supervisor as to the acceptable quality of the item you have been asked to pass through. With a rolled-up newspaper in his hand, your supervisor swings it in your direction, hitting the back of the chair you are sitting in. What do you do?

• Aggression From Your Supervisor: Answer A

  Swing back at him.

• Aggression From Your Supervisor: Answer B

  State unequivocally that such behavior is unacceptable in business and advise him you intend to take this matter up with the manager, to whom you both report

• Aggression From Your Supervisor: Answer C

  Get up and go straight to the EEO office.

• Aggression From Your Supervisor: Answer D

  Since the boss says, 'I was only joking,' you ignore the act.

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