Watched a coworker disrespect another coworkers wife in front of him.

Okay I had to share this because it blew me away. The story you are about to hear is true the names have been changed fo protect the innocent... Dun da nah.. nah ...Nuh nah.. (dragnet for those that don't catch the reference)

My field of work is blue collar and many of my coworkers would be described as redneck to say the least, we have one who is very loud, heavyset, and known for "zingers" ...."ahh that's just bobby being himself.. he's a character haha" I've heard before. His name is Bobby.

Well we have a supervisor named Dave who is a hot head he screams at customers and even calls other businesses bosses to talk shit about their employees we may have to deal with on our job sites quite often. He sits there and tells me stories about beating the hell out of people or cussing out a waitress for refusing to understand why his food isn't properly cooked. I'm waiting for the day to hear the tale one day of him slapping the fuck outta his grandma for cooking his chicken nuggets wrong when he was 11 or something haha.(A joke I doubt he has a story like that). We have another coworker named Shelly we'll Shelly is Dave's wife. She does administrative office work stuff but often mingles around the crew and throws around banter.

Regardless one morning I walk in a bunch of us are sitting in the break room. It's really early and everyone has that tired half awake silence to them or are grumbling quietly to themselves. Bobby walks in but unusually not loud like he's in a bad mood. He starts complaining about something. Well he notices Shelly is sitting in his seat he usually sits and Dave is across from her. She says something of the usual banter like she should of been her earlier or something. All of the sudden seemingly instead of "yucking it up" and joking he just gets irate and starts speaking loudly. At first she ignored it as did I because generally most of what comes out of his mouth id say is grade A bullshit, but as his tone increases I take notice. He starts calling her a dog and makes barking noises. Shelly gets upset and stands up to give him his chair. He plays it off as if she is being rediculious but then starts yelling dog commands like "go on now sit!!!" "I said sit dammit... Sit!!!"

Here's what gets me, fucking hot head dave the entire time watches the whole thing and doesn't say a word. Just looks at Bobby up and down I see his eyes looking him up and down. Doesn't say a damn word. I sit there stunned, everyone in the room is just pretending like it's not happening but mostly stunned that Dave just say their and let old boy just disrespect the living fuck out of his old lady. She walks out and leaves and avoided Bobby the rest of the day. No one spoke a word of that and I look back and feel angry for Dave, but nothing from him. Shes not my wife but dammit I could not stand for something like that, if I was in Dave's shoes. I feel infuriated he didn't think it necessary to atleast even say "hey chill the fuck out you need to stop!" Or something especially from the dude willing to cuss the whole world out for breathing too much.

Also side note just strengthens my opinion a husband and wife can go into business together but shouldn't work for one together. Especially in a blue collar setting