@Matt Westwood said:
@boomzilla said:@Matt Westwood said:But all that's beside the point. Any boss who says "Shut up!" to a member of a team trying to contribute to a design meeting is so far outside the norms of professional conduct, it needs to be addressed there and then with action. Making excuses for it, bowing down to it, letting it carry on, is completely unacceptable.
I wouldn't go so far as to say any boss. There are a lot of people who need to be told to shut up.
Maybe they do, but you take such people aside and discuss their behaviour with them privately and civilly. Snapping "Shut up!" at them in a meeting is unprofessional.
Having said that, we have only heard one side of the story. Maybe the poster who was told to shut up has real communication difficulties and was really being irritating, and the boss was at the end of her tether. It may well have been that he was right, and needed his point of view to be heard, but was making a complete prick of himself. It's more than possible he flipped his bozo bit.
It's pretty much all speculation now, nobody but the OP was there. And of course from the OP's perspective, the boss is being an unreasonable bitch.
That said, as sexist as it may be, I have noticed female managers and leaders tend to be quite bitchy. I don't know why, thinking it might be related to them wanting to "show the boys how it's done" which of course only leads to alienation and shoddy work.
As with most situations, as soon as people let their egos enter the arena, everything goes to hell.