You are at dinner with your work group. You have been looking forward to spending time with your co-workers outside the office all week. However, when you arrive, your supervisor (Devon) is not pleased with the table and demands that they switch your group to a different one. When the server tells your supervisor it is impossible, the supervisor requests to speak with the restaurant manager, who asserts that there are simply no other tables available. While the rest of the group tries to move on, the supervisor continues to make comments, complaining, “Is anyone else upset about this view? Why is there all of this loud construction happening?” Once again, the server tries to explain, but the supervisor interrupts, “You really need to work on your customer service.” Then when the server walks away, someone from your team makes a joke about the server’s competence. The supervisor seems to approve and makes another derogatory remark about the server. To your disgust, everyone in the group laughs but you. While your supervisor is engaged in a conversation with someone else, you whisper to a co-worker seated next to you that you think you should say something. “Are you kidding me?” your co-worker says in a low voice. “I mean, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened with Devon, so what did you expect?” Your co-worker sighs and adds, “Well, do it at your own risk.”
