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It's really hard to avoid doing this. (fedia.io)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I had a situation like this at work even though I am not autistic. My boss verbally assaulted one of my colleagues in a very inappropriate way but I did not say anything. Neither did my colleague. At the moment I felt uncomfortable and also expected my colleague to react.

I actually thought about this a lot and even called my union to ask for advice. Should I wait for it to happen again or could i go and bring this up several weeks later?

It is never too late to bring it up and say: 'you know that thing you did yesterday/last week/last month? I didn't feel all right with that even though I didn't say so'

I also added that although it was not targeted at me, that I would really get offended if I was treated like that.

In my case it improved my relationship to that boss and we can have more open discussions than my colleagues have