Some years ago I was working at a natural grocer in the PNW. I had a boss who would make fun of a disabled dishwasher, use homophobic slurs, and was just an all-around asshat. I went to HR and told the single HR person we had. I explained explicitly I wanted to remain anonymous because he was the type to retaliate and make life a living hell for anyone he didn’t like. She agreed to anonymity.
Several days later I get called into the office. There’s the HR manager and my manager, sitting with an empty chair. HR lady explains we need to “clear the air” and this is when my boss starts unloading on me about how he thought I could take a joke, about how when he was making fun of the disabled dishwasher he thought we were “friends” and could be himself. I’d never given him any reason to think we were friends.
I put in my two weeks. Dude kept his job. A few years later I was talking to someone who still worked there and I found out my old boss and the HR manager has been SLEEPING TOGETHER!!! They were both married to other people!! Wtf…
TLDR- I reported my boss to HR and she only protected him