> A quick update to the procedures that calling someone a dickhead is a fireable offense is all that is needed. Nope, needs to be reasonable. If you're doing s

> A quick update to the procedures that calling someone a dickhead is a fireable offense is all that is needed. Nope, needs to be reasonable. If you're doing something unusual, then it needs to be telegraphed and backed up so that if you are taken to court you can give evidence as to why that clause was needed. > have something generic like "verbal abuse" you would need to have a policy that defines what verbal abuse is, and a way to record and catagorise it. its also a hard task to prove that one instance of verbal abuse where using "dickhead" as a term of endearment without any other connotations (sexual or otherwise) is gross misconduct, especially as the reply was "you can fuck off"