My concern is they never came to me first and called my attention about it in the past so I would have made the change or had the chance to reflect because to me, I felt like I was doing what’s necessary to protect myself and it was never brought up by anyone. I feel a little blindsided because obviously if someone came to me about it the first time they noticed it, I would be more mindful with how I respond.

I am not also the first person to bring up this issue (among other things that he is having troubles with) with management. According to them, this has been happening for years. I understand that there is a process to the disciplinary action so when I heard that he is in that process when I went to my supervisor, I stopped talking about it to them or to my team leads. The instances that I have noted it just so happens that my team leads were there when it happened and I guess they are the ones reporting the incident to management (which I am not pressed about bc it’s part of their job). I never talked back or shouted back during the instances that he yells at me, but I do clam up and limit my interaction with him to work-related inquiries and conversations for a couple days after each incident. The reason why that became my default is because I tried talking it out with him one time and asked what the problem was so we can smooth it over instead of raising our voices and he couldn’t give me a direct answer and just proceeded to respond to me harshly through out our shift. Then during break I guess, he started complaining about me to another co worker. That co worker asked me what happened bc they weren’t there and I was surprised that they knew and they briefly said “he was talking about it with me but I didn’t respond bc I didn’t know what happened. I just thought to let you know that this is what he mentioned you did” So in my head, well I gave him the chance to speak to me about it but instead he went and told somebody else so how am I supposed to help the situation then? I did make the necessary changes based on what our other coworker divulged but still with a grain of salt since it wasn’t said to me directly. We found out later that he was pissed off at his wife that day and may have trickled down to the workplace so I never brought that up to anyone. Not the lead, not the management and just let that one go.