August 3, 2007
Well apart from some of my colleagues at work who have also had unpleasant exchanges with my colleague… like the one I met today for lunch who has since left the organisation who said “And I thought it was just me!”, I’ve discovered a huge number of sites talking about Workplace Bullying. Please let me know in comments if you know of a good blog or website.
You’ll find a few of them in my links section. Look at these statistics from the Compliance Training Blog in the US:
About 45% of American workers have been the target of workplace abuse. Another study by the Workplace Bullying Institute concluded that:
Perhaps I should say that I am female and my colleague is a very large person with an ego larger even than that. I am my colleague’s superviser but our structure places a lot of power in talented individuals who are not managers, and this person does have talent.
Perhaps they might be emotionally retarded… but they have talent.
Entry Filed under: Emails, abuse, bully, bullying, cyberbullying, flames, intimidation, links, workplace. .
1. iScatterling II | August 3, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Many thanks for leaving a comment at my site.
It was good to learn that the victims of bullying have this site to vent and receive some support. I will mention this site in the blog.
Be well
Robert@iscatterlings.com
2. Dimechimes | August 4, 2007 at 2:34 am
We also just addressed cyberbulling on our blog last week at http://www.dimechimes.wordpress.com due to email harassment and cyber harassment for forum participation in industry forums. It is a huge problem driving people away from the very sites they go to for information.
3. L Lewis | August 31, 2007 at 6:33 am
It’s great to see more people talking about workplace bullying! We’ve been somewhat conditioned to accept the idea that everyone has a “bad” boss or coworker at some point in their career and to just suck it up or change jobs.
The more conversation there is about bullying, the more people will become aware that they have other alternatives and that just accepting another person’s uncontrolled “personality” is not one of those options.
4. anonatwork | September 7, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Thanks for dropping by. It is such a pervasive issue and it is very difficult to change behaviours which have gone unchecked possibly since childhood.
By discussing it at least we go some way towards solving the problem!
AAW