Ok, I usually like my job, and I usually like the folks I work with, and I usually like the 3-11 shift I'm on this week.

Tonight was different. There is a shovel runner, I'll call Jay, who tends to be a little moody. Tonight was one of his moods. Nothing I did was right, and he even started making comments on the 2 way radio.

Bad move on his part.

Talking "smak" about someone is one thing, but deriding them on the company radio is something else. When you start making comments on the company radio that everyone hears, it becomes "creating a hostile work environment".

So I pointed this out to my foreman tonight at the end of shift. I also pointed out the fact that I don't have to tolerate it. If the shovel runner has a problem with me, he should be man enough to talk to me face to face. When he puts it out on the air, it becomes another issue.

So the foreman will talk to Jay about this.

Hopefully, something good will come of it. If not, I may have to go higher up. Ugh!

Frankie