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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2010 20:10:21 GMT
According to this article women have it the worst when it comes to work place bullying. lifestyle.ca.msn.com/real-life/work/rogers-article.aspx?cp-documentid=23649968Beware the bully in heels. A U.S. survey found that 40 percent of workplace heavies are women — surprising, given our allegedly maternal natures — and that they tend to pick on their XX-chromosome colleagues. In fact, women are the most common targets of bullies of either gender, according to the Workplace Bullying Institute, based in Bellingham, Washington, which led the 2007 study.WHAT’S BULLYING? Workplace bullying is defined as deliberate and focused mistreatment of an employee. Quebec, the first jurisdiction in North America to specifically protect against this type of psychological harassment, describes it as repeated, vexatious behaviour that erodes a worker’s dignity. Tactics range from the loud — yelling, door slamming and ranting — to the subtle: A bullied employee might find herself excluded from important meetings or assigned tasks without adequate resources to complete them. Her co-workers could be recruited in a campaign to isolate her. And behind her back, the bully may trash her to higher-ups, although bosses themselves are often the culprits.It affects their health, both physically and mentally. I've personally never had to work in such a place before (thank heavens), but have heard of many that do and have. Any thoughts on this at all?
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Post by hwinpp on Apr 28, 2010 7:07:52 GMT
It called 'mobbing' in German, a lack of imaginativeness I find.
It's hard for me to understand, I wouldn't take it. Why do some people allow it to happen? I mean if it's not a superior what leverage do these people have?
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Post by spindrift on Apr 28, 2010 7:47:35 GMT
Well I know about bullying at the workplace. At one time I worked for a merchant bank which had a large open office with most of the staff working in it. I was lucky, being a PA to one of the directors, to have my office in a separate room next to his...so I didn't have to sit with the rest of them. But I quickly noticed that the bullying came from the ferocious tea-lady who liked to bully those women who she deemed to be in a class (or two) above her... Tea-ladies and jealous women...that's what it is.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2010 14:46:16 GMT
It called 'mobbing' in German, a lack of imaginativeness I find. It's hard for me to understand, I wouldn't take it. Why do some people allow it to happen? I mean if it's not a superior what leverage do these people have? I think some of the bullying is done by the higher-up, those with the power, and it's a case of either put up with it or leave and lose your job. I agree though, I wouldn't put up with it either, so totally soul-destroying. Why some resort to this kind of unkind behaviour is beyond me. I imagine that the power hungry will go to any lengths to keep hold of and gain money/power over others. If it not a superior, like you say, hw, then how do they get away with it? Maybe because they have connections with the superiors? Or are confiding in them in other ways? Maybe they have been there longer and so have friends in the office who will stick up for them, whether they are right or wrong?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2010 14:50:40 GMT
Tea-ladies and jealous women...that's what it is. And a lot of the time it is just that I reckon.
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