Is raising your voice with co-workers acceptable at your workplace?

[Anonymous]

Had a team lead get angry and throw a dictionary once (engineering organization). I've witnessed people in very intense "discussions" where they were poised for a fight (sales organization). Disagreements happen. It, to an extent, normal. She is being too sensitive. Being uncomfortable is her problem. Lean in...

[Anonymous]

Some in the workplace conflate hearing something they don't want to with a raised voice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unacceptable. No debate. No matter what relativity (e.g. CEO to janitor). Blaming someone as being too sensitive is obviously just unintelligence. Anybody who says that this sort of thing is ok at work is living in the wrong century, or is arrogant enough to think that moderate or passive forms of violence make that person 'harder' (e.g. "back in my day, we used to..."). Casual profanity in a non-threatening manner, if the other party is comfortable, should be absolutely fine. But always consider context and not what is normalised, as this could be toxic.

What made you dig up a three year old thread to add this?