The language in the NMR spectroscopy lab, specifically where the scenario starts and explains that the new supervisor Tim Smith is irate - is absurd.
This normalizes mistreatment and emotional abuse of employees in workplaces. It makes me directly second guess the fact that I've made the time/money/energy investment in going back to school to better my life and get out of an abusive work environments for something better.
Is this behavior commonplace in chemistry/lab work environments enough that you found a necessity to prepare students to handle it? Using fear as a motivator is unhealthy and students should not have to expect that their lives would go that way. I understand that there is no clear or direct language showing that the hypothetical manager here has committed direct abuse to someone, but plenty of people who have had jobs know that when management is irate, they will bear the brunt of some kind of discomfort if not actual verbal abuse whether whatever mistake made was theirs or not.
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