Comments on: Do You Know the Dangers of Workplace Bullying?

By: grannybunny

grannybunny — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:30:24 +0000

In reply to Mr Calloused. Good for you. Depending on the power disparity between the bully and the bullied, sometimes, that's all you can do.

By: Mr Calloused

Mr Calloused — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 01:26:50 +0000

In reply to Wendy. Not rare enough, I assure you. Just when you think "you've seen it all" some clown proves that adage wrong even in the largest corporation.

By: Mr Calloused

Mr Calloused — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 01:23:50 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. I just left a job because the project sponsor was a 30-year company man apparently revered on the business side, but a snide, condescending toad to IT team. I left after 3 months. I repeatedly emphasized in my exit interview with HR that I was leaving because of him, and that furthermore everyone around IT knew his reputation. I wasn't going to stick around a company that tolerated such behavior, regardless of any official company slogans about respecting employees.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 18:59:21 +0000

Yup. In my daughter’s first job out of college, in a bank, there was a higher-up that would yell and throw things at people. When he stormed into her cubicle yelling and threw a pencil at my daughter, she went to her boss and said she was going to HR. His reply? “Well, others have done that and all I can say is, they’re gone and he’s still here.” She promptly found a new job.

By: Maria Rose

Maria Rose — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:35:25 +0000

As the two other commenters noted certain bullying will be ignored and tolerated by the powers that be and there’s nothing that can be done to stop this behavior in that workplace legally. The only recourse is to leave the toxic place and pray that Karma will some day occur. Getting blacklisted will occur in places like this if you push for justice.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:39:41 +0000

As someone who had to deal with a workplace bully, it’s even harder when the bully is one of three owners of the company you worked for and the other two owners know it’s happening, had it pointed out to them and continued to do nothing. I even added an amendment to the handbook about Workplace Bullying, had a manditory meeting with all employees (including this owner/bully) and this person still continued to do it. My only solution after that was to quit and the owner was so salty about me quitting, she walked me out the door as if I were trash (4 1/2 years of working there meant nothing to her). They say you should stand up to a bully, but she would have written anyone up (and has) for insubordination and flipped the tables making it all your fault. Some bullies (and I’m sure it’s rare) just can’t be dealt with.

By: grannybunny

grannybunny — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:34:15 +0000

Our natural instinct is to avoid conflict and unnecessary drama. However, when it comes to being bullied, the absolutely worst thing to do is to not stand up to it and oppose it as soon as possible. Allowing it to go on only empowers the bully and the bullying worsens. Organizations would do well to adopt the “No A**hole Rule,” in which rude, uncivil, behavior is simply not tolerated.