If your boss is yelling at you for no reason, then you probably won’t have a claim for illegal hostile work environment or harassment. Title VII and other federal employment discrimination laws don’t require bosses to be perfect or to be nice. What they do require, however, is that your boss cannot yell at you or treat you differently because of a protected characteristic such as your gender, your race, your religion. If your boss does something like that, then it may cross the line and become illegal harassment. But simply being a rude and obnoxious boss, unfortunately, is not illegal under these laws.
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