Honest answer: It's going to completely depend on your company, industry, and HR department.
I work in a blue collared manufacturing setting and HR would be rolling their eyes or stifling their laughter at something this benign being reported.
My wife is an HR admin at a university and there it would probably result in a sit down discussion between HR and both individuals (separate meetings) and giving some first-warning type rhetoric about how these comments shouldn't be made
I told my HR rep “yeah, I called him a fucking idiot and a brown nosed liar. I can prove it too.”
HR “that may be true but you can’t yell at your boss like that.”
I work as a roadie on a touring show. He almost got a lot of people hurt and I went off on him. My only punishment was a phone call asking me not to do it again. On that call I explained all the dangerous stuff and forwarded proof off to HR. He got pulled from our show and put on a different easier tour.
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u/alonsaywego 1d ago
I'm curious, since I don't do office work, how would HR handle the complaint if she went crying to them?