"One to go off"

[sr71blackbird]

There is a very high strung guy where I work who is a perfectionist as well as being a neat freak, effeminate, loud and obnoxious, overbearing and a touchy-freely guy and who at the same time, would give you the shirt off his back kind of guy.
He is in a position where he has to try and satisfy customers and at the same time try and compel other parts of our company to make happen what the complaining customers want to happen. He is VERY loud in the office, people constantly complain about how loud he is. He claims to not be able to hear the customers on the phone. He never "bottles up" his anxiety, he always vents and lets everyone know just what he feels. To an annoying level actually.
A few days ago, after having an argument with a customer, he slammed his phone receiver down so hard that it broke the phone. It snapped the handset in half and destroyed the display and he expressed anger as he did so.
The question is, is this the kind of guy to "go off" in the work place and come in one day shooting? Or, is it as is commonly known, the quiet guy, the one who internalizes his anxiety and frustrations? The reason I ask is that there are women in the office that are scared of him now because he broke the phone and expressed rage in a violent way.
Do you think it is that kind of guy that snaps or the meek subdued guy that snaps?

[DarkHippie]

You never know who is gonna be the mass murderer

[extracheese]

no - he has an outlet. Thats the key...he does not bottle it up. Its the quiet ones who seethe and simmer for years with a blank expression who go home and kick the dog and worse.

I think your safe with this guy...but if he becomes quiet and standoffish....keep an eye on him.

[LittlePapi]

There is a very high strung guy where I work who is a perfectionist as well as being a neat freak, effeminate, loud and obnoxious, overbearing and a touchy-freely guy I was in the Navy too.. :drunk:

[TheMojoPin]

You should be on the lookout for mass murderers everywhere. It's the healthy, sensible thing to do.

[sr71blackbird]

What I mean is, no one seems afraid of the quiet guy in the corner, but because this guy broke his phone and yelled, is the one all the women are now voicing concerns over.

[KC2OSO]

no - he has an outlet. Thats the key...he does not bottle it up. Its the quiet ones who seethe and simmer for years with a blank expression who go home and kick the dog and worse.

I think your safe with this guy...but if he becomes quiet and standoffish....keep an eye on him.
Yep. From a ham and egger point of view, if I can throw a wrench through a wall or smash a phone, I'm not your guy. It's the guy who does not get angry (has no passion) that you may want to observe more closely.

[sr71blackbird]

It's is interesting then, that because of his outburst that now people think he is more likely to "go postal"

[Yosammity]

This is probably the best opportunity for you to kill someone in your office. Inevitably they'll blame the loud guy who broke the phone.

[sailor]

def'ly the meek guy, but your guy will be amongst the first targeted.

[outlawfrank]

u really need to worry about everyone but this guy doesn't sound like a killer, he sounds like a son of a bitch who might hurl a stapler across the room in anger.

[JPMNICK]

dude the chances of having your work place shot up are insanely small. it is not even worth thinking about.

[cougarjake13]

There is a very high strung guy where I work who is a perfectionist as well as being a neat freak, effeminate, loud and obnoxious, overbearing and a touchy-freely guy and who at the same time, would give you the shirt off his back kind of guy.
He is in a position where he has to try and satisfy customers and at the same time try and compel other parts of our company to make happen what the complaining customers want to happen. He is VERY loud in the office, people constantly complain about how loud he is. He claims to not be able to hear the customers on the phone. He never "bottles up" his anxiety, he always vents and lets everyone know just what he feels. To an annoying level actually.
A few days ago, after having an argument with a customer, he slammed his phone receiver down so hard that it broke the phone. It snapped the handset in half and destroyed the display and he expressed anger as he did so.
The question is, is this the kind of guy to "go off" in the work place and come in one day shooting? Or, is it as is commonly known, the quiet guy, the one who internalizes his anxiety and frustrations? The reason I ask is that there are women in the office that are scared of him now because he broke the phone and expressed rage in a violent way.
Do you think it is that kind of guy that snaps or the meek subdued guy that snaps?




i guess you can have both kinds but the quiet guy either gets more pub or goes off more


my thoughts are that if he's blowing off steam as each lil incident occurs, then its not building up into this huge powder keg that ends with him going postal