First firing

[TheDoctor]

Originally Posted by Anoree

It penalizes the one going physical, agreed, but I think that's bearable. I think NO taunting justifies starting a physical fight.

I think even when you were young, you stopped fighting when the oponent went down, didn't you?

"To stupid words, deaf ears". Anybody who is stupid enough to overlook the fistfight rule deserves to be immediately sent home. Well done. The company is not supposed to stand such behaviour.
For what is worth, a suggestion: the bickering employees can delay their brawl to after business hours; they are all adults, for cryin' out loud. Even schoolkids can figure that out -in my time, I kind of made a motto out of that "auxiliary rule" in order to beat/scare bullies into getting off my back. Got rid of the bullies at the cost of nearly all of my friends... wanna think I actually kept the real ones, I mean, the kind of friends one can call "brother".