I got fired after I lost my temper confronting a bully. The bully (let's call her Q) harrassed me because I had injured my foot, was in a walking cast, and standing on crutches. Did I make a mistake? Yes. But Q was a known bully with lots of co-worker complaints to her “credit”. Yet she was given a second (and third and fourth etc.) chance but I got fired.

A few weeks later I was talking to a friend from my old workplace who told me that Q had used vulgarities berating a co-worker While Customers Looked On. A saw an opportunity so I emailed the company using a computer generated name and email address to complain, under the guise of a customer, about Q's behavior. While Q did not (unfortunately) get fired, she was reprimanded. However she continued to bully co-workers so she got demoted to the shipping department, where she won't have as much contact with other associates as she used to. Meanwhile one of my friends got sent to department head training.