Worth it? Not much. Now if someone put hands on my kids or my gf, I'd make them regret it, but anything short of that I'd be reluctant to even get into an argument, HOWEVER...
I work in sales and for some it's a pretty stressful environment. Everybody wants to hit their numbers and some are competitive with other sales people to the point that they get angry or frustrated if they have more numbers on the board. I'm not really like that and if you're selling more than me, great. It's not going to make a difference on my check. Anyway, there's this one dude from New York at my job, this short little Jewish dude in his 40s who is a loud mouth. He's good but he's had a problem with this one lady ever since she came to the office because she stole his thunder. She kicks his *** every week and he can't stand it.
He's been on a campaign to give her a bad rep ever since she started. PMing people about how she stole people's deals, talking **** in meetings, etc. The bosses have told him more than once to cool it or he'd be let go, because he goes well over the line with the **** he does and says. I would just ignore it because it wasn't my problem and I don't do the office politics thing. I'm neutral and cool with everyone.
I sit across from this lady and one day she cracked a joke and I started laughing and ever since (about two weeks) dude all of a sudden wouldn't say hello to me in passing and was straight up acting like a *****. I played the bigger man and said hello to him anyway. I knew he thought I was talking **** or whatever, but I figured at some point he would come to his adult senses and get over it.
So last week we're all having a rough day, but I had sold two for the day, so I was coasting at that point. The dude had sold none for a couple of days and the lady sold one and I guess he felt like it was his lead so he goes in the chat and puts "oh look the snake is stealing another deal." I don't know why, but that irked me. We never put unprofessional **** in the chat, so I responded "are we doing this high school crap in the chat now? ____ you closed one of my clients last week and you don't hear me crying about it."
And he had, but if we have a legitimate case, usually our boss will hook us up anyway and in my case he did. Same would've happened with him, had his case been legit.
So this dude stands up and starts staring at me from across the room like he wanted to do something to me. So I called him over to my desk and was like "what's up?!" And I'm heated because dude was legit giving me the look like he wanted to fight. So I kinda blacked out and am looking down at this dude. Had he been taller we would've nose to nose. I start calling him on his ******** and he starts going on and on about how I've been talking behind his back. I tell him I'm a straight up dude and I would say whatever I think to his face. I told him he's loud and THAT's what we were laughing about. So dude is still butt hurt and by this time, my boss rushes over and tries to break it up, but I say "let's take this outside!" And he has that "aw ****" look on his face, like man I pissed this big ***** off. So the boss and other people are trying to calm the situation, but I'm not having it. The fact that dude got in my face for whatever reason had me pissed. Dude goes back to his desk and I tell him once more "_____ let's go outside" and I start walking toward the door.
So he follows and I start cursing this dude out like I'm a Samuel L Jackson highlight reel. I guess that I was so loud, one of the OWNERS of the company hears me all the way in his office and runs out and breaks it up. They thought I was gonna kick his ***, but I wasn't I just wanted to give him a piece of my mind. The owner tells us to break the **** up or we're going home. At that point we had straightened it out anyway, so we shook hands and squashed it.
The next day the owner pulls me to the side and says "you got my respect." I guess they didn't like the dude. He got written up and moved to another one of their companies on Friday.