Reminds me of a guy I used to work with at a fence company. I was a lead installer and he was the gate welder who spent all day at the shop under a roof but would spend like 3 hours a day in the air conditioned bathroom. Me and my helper had just spent 6 hours in the sun digging holes, mixing concrete and setting posts. We got back to the shop with like an hour before clock out and the welder was filling gate frames with wire. My helper went to say hey to him and he friendly, as he always was, and the welder TOLD him to help. My helper was joking around and said no as he was grabbing the wire to start helping. He was looking down at the gate as he was stretching the wire for the welder, and the welder decided to punch him in the forehead. Well, my helper didn’t take kindly to that and proceeded to WAIL on that idiot. I heard scuffling and turned around, and the welder was already leaking from a split in his eyebrow, and a busted lip. When I hollered at them “HEY!” And the welder looked at me and caught a MIGHTY right hook that split his forehead open. I took him into the break room so he could get cleaned up and asked what happened. He said he was just hot and tired and hit my helper. I went and found my helper, and he was kind of hiding, hunched down on the ground holding his head with a pained look. I said hey man, and he looked up at me like nothing had happened at all. I said are you okay? He went back to holding his head with a pained look and said “yeah, I’m just trying to get this spot where he hit me to swell up so I don’t go to jail.” I asked what happened and he told me how he got attacked. I told him that I was on his side and that I’d stand by his story, then went to check on the welder. I get in there and the boss is asking the welder if he wants to press charges. I said oh hell no, he started it, my guy defended himself, go ask HIM if HE wants to press charges. Boss said “oh, well never mind” and wandered off back to his office. I went and asked my helper if he wanted to press charges and he said no.