Are you being bullied at work?

[Anachronism]

These actions have serious side effects for victims, according to the WBI, including heart disease and post-traumatic stress disorder. Now lobbyists are increasing their calls for state lawmakers to pass anti-bullying in the workplace legislation.

Does this include company policies that drive me insane and make it almost totally impossible to actually get anything done in a timely and reasonable fashion?

 

[Moonglow]

Hell I am the boss. I get to abuse and sexually harass myself whenever I feel like it, and they ain't nothing nobody can do about it, pass me the ky, ok.

 

[Moonglow]

These actions have serious side effects for victims, according to the WBI, including heart disease and post-traumatic stress disorder. Now lobbyists are increasing their calls for state lawmakers to pass anti-bullying in the workplace legislation.

Does this include company policies that drive me insane and make it almost totally impossible to actually get anything done in a timely and reasonable fashion?

Plunging toilets can't be that difficult

 

[Moonglow]

Yet lawyers can do nothing without "you all" who come to them, asking to sue. They also find great help when "you all" get picked for the jury, and hand over outrageous sums of money.

"You all" are great at spouting how ridiculous this or that law, lawsuit, etc. is. But none of this happens without "you all". In fact, "you all" drive it.

It's kind of like "you all" scream for blood when a lady is accused of killing her 2-year-old. Then "you all" find her not guilty. "You all" uniformly tell us how crazy the coffee lawsuit is. But "you all" routinely hand over money in similar suits.

The law is like democracy. Everyone hates Congress. But YOUR congressman is OK. Everyone's lawsuit is frivolous. Except YOURS. We should cut welfare. But not YOUR welfare.

Yawn.

i had jury duty last week, we gave out no huge sums of money.

 

[JakeStarkey]

God help the private sector if the feds get involved and workers are allowed to bring federal lawsuits against their employers because someone gave them the finger. That's what it is about you know. Socialists would bring the entire system to a halt with federal lawsuits over hurt feelings and multi billion dollar compensation awards to slick lawyers.

Socialism is about nationalizing industry, Whitehall, do you know that?

I agree that such a law is stupid, but no more than the GOP trying to bring in Big Brother Government on abortion and marriage.

Keep it straight, brother.

 

[George Costanza]

God help the private sector if the feds get involved and workers are allowed to bring federal lawsuits against their employers because someone gave them the finger. That's what it is about you know. Socialists would bring the entire system to a halt with federal lawsuits over hurt feelings and multi billion dollar compensation awards to slick lawyers.

No, suing someone at work for "giving you the finger" is NOT what it is all about. Not even close. I gather you have never been bullied by another adult. If you had, you wouldn't be saying what you are saying here.

 

[Moonglow]

God help the private sector if the feds get involved and workers are allowed to bring federal lawsuits against their employers because someone gave them the finger. That's what it is about you know. Socialists would bring the entire system to a halt with federal lawsuits over hurt feelings and multi billion dollar compensation awards to slick lawyers.

No, suing someone at work for "giving you the finger" is NOT what it is all about. Not even close. I gather you have never been bullied by another adult. If you had, you wouldn't be saying what you are saying here.

Try the military, you think private firms have a bully problem.

 

[Big Fitz]

Hell I am the boss. I get to abuse and sexually harass myself whenever I feel like it, and they ain't nothing nobody can do about it, pass me the ky, ok.

Self abuse is the most honest kind.

 

[Moonglow]

Hell I am the boss. I get to abuse and sexually harass myself whenever I feel like it, and they ain't nothing nobody can do about it, pass me the ky, ok.

Self abuse is the most honest kind.

I tried to sue, but never showed up for court.

 

[Mr.Nick]

Americans face bullying long after they have left the playground with a startling 35% of adults either been bullied or currently experiencing bullying at work, according to the Workplace Bullying Institute.

Workplace bullying is defined by the WBI as "repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one of more persons by one or more perpetrators," and includes verbal abuse, offensive conduct and behaviors (including nonverbal) that are threatening, humiliating or intimidating and work interference or sabotage, which prevents work from getting done.

These actions have serious side effects for victims, according to the WBI, including heart disease and post-traumatic stress disorder. Now lobbyists are increasing their calls for state lawmakers to pass anti-bullying in the workplace legislation.

Read more: New Bill Targets Workplace Bullying - FoxBusiness.com

Everybody's a victim.

 

[whitehall]

Ya see people, the point ain't the alleged effort to combat bullying in the workplace. The point is the mess the federal government will make of it and the innocent small businesses just getting by that will suffer because of another level of federal regulation.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I can agree with that as long as you don't mistake regulation for socialism: two different things.

 

[High_Gravity]

When I was 24, I worked for a supervisor that sexually harassed me on business trips. I'm not talking about mild flirting or even vulgar talk (I have since worked with cops for a living, I'm super tolerant). He routinely pressured me to come to his hotel room so he could give a massage. He'd slept with the last woman who had my job, and felt entitled. He was the one who signed my performance evaluations. I was a kid right out of college, and it was scary. I was living paycheck to paycheck, and couldn't afford to lose my job. Beyond that, I loved the work I did, but didn't want to have sex with him. I met my ex during that period, and I got pregnant and we ended up getting married. My supervisor went around the company telling everyone that I was pregnant outside of wedlock (first) and then, after the wedding, telling everyone that I was going to quit my job and be a SAH mom. He wanted to push me into leaving so that he could get someone else into the position who would be more sexually compliant.

I finally ended up standing up to him and yelling at him in his face that I'd sue his fat ass if he didn't knock it off. But, in those days, an EEOC complaint would follow you professionally for years (small world in my field, and you were often suspected of initiating it for personal gain).

I was really relieved when I finally got a different job and didn't have to put up with it anymore. I used to laugh at stuff like this, but in this economy and in at-will states, people will put up with a lot of crap to keep their jobs. I am all about working hard and taking care of business, but people shouldn't have to put up with abuse to keep their job. And, there isn't a lot of recourse when you're in one of those situations, except to leave.

Why exactly do we put the onus on the person who is being abused to uproot their entire life because another grownup can't act like a civilized human being on the job?

I'm really sorry this happened I can't even imagine how dealing with this made you feel, I am hoping this was a while back because from my experience now things have changed, there is no tolerance for sexual harassment anymore in the workplace, shit at my job even looking suggestive at a female or leering can get you in deep shit.

 

[Samson]

I get bullied ALL the time on here by Care4All and del.

pics.

 

[JakeStarkey]

We have found it more easy to control the same in our family businesses the last decade. I do advise our administrative managers to make sure they keep 90-day continual performance and challenge reviews up to date, so that a female or male cannot challenge disciplinary action on grounds of discrimination based on sex.

 

[catzmeow]

I'm really sorry this happened I can't even imagine how dealing with this made you feel, I am hoping this was a while back because from my experience now things have changed, there is no tolerance for sexual harassment anymore in the workplace, shit at my job even looking suggestive at a female or leering can get you in deep shit.

You know what they say, what doesn't kill you only makes you more bitter.

I jest. But, considering the field I wound up in, working in a multijurisdictional gang unit with all cops (except for me and a secretary), it's probably good that I learned the hard way to stand up for myself. I ended up doing plenty of it in subsequent jobs. But, if some asshole treated my daughter the way that fucktard treated me, I'd take a baseball bat to him.

And, it's hard to get recourse via sexual harassment laws. You may well win a lawsuit, but you often lose your job and end up spending months in court trying to be vindicated for something that should never have happened in the first place. Yes, there are civil remedies, but in my experience, they aren't super effective. I actually liked working with cops the best. The department had been integrated years before, and if someone pissed you off, you could speak your piece without getting reprimanded. Working for a woman boss, that's another story.

 

[High_Gravity]

I'm really sorry this happened I can't even imagine how dealing with this made you feel, I am hoping this was a while back because from my experience now things have changed, there is no tolerance for sexual harassment anymore in the workplace, shit at my job even looking suggestive at a female or leering can get you in deep shit.

You know what they say, what doesn't kill you only makes you more bitter.

I jest. But, considering the field I wound up in, working in a multijurisdictional gang unit with all cops (except for me and a secretary), it's probably good that I learned the hard way to stand up for myself. I ended up doing plenty of it in subsequent jobs. But, if some asshole treated my daughter the way that fucktard treated me, I'd take a baseball bat to him.

And, it's hard to get recourse via sexual harassment laws. You may well win a lawsuit, but you often lose your job and end up spending months in court trying to be vindicated for something that should never have happened in the first place. Yes, there are civil remedies, but in my experience, they aren't super effective. I actually liked working with cops the best. The department had been integrated years before, and if someone pissed you off, you could speak your piece without getting reprimanded. Working for a woman boss, that's another story.

Where I work at now you could file an EO (Equal Opportunity) complaint for sexual harassment if it happens and during the process you get placed under a different supervisor, it must suck for women when situations like this happen, its totally different for guys. A friend of mine got sexually harassed by a female VP in his office, she would send him naked pictures in his email, he never filed any complaints though.

 

[jillian]

I worked for a big bully once. He often said, "No work, no pay." What kind of an attitude is that?

nice. but doesn't have anything to do with the issue here.

 

[jillian]

I'm really sorry this happened I can't even imagine how dealing with this made you feel, I am hoping this was a while back because from my experience now things have changed, there is no tolerance for sexual harassment anymore in the workplace, shit at my job even looking suggestive at a female or leering can get you in deep shit.

You know what they say, what doesn't kill you only makes you more bitter.

I jest. But, considering the field I wound up in, working in a multijurisdictional gang unit with all cops (except for me and a secretary), it's probably good that I learned the hard way to stand up for myself. I ended up doing plenty of it in subsequent jobs. But, if some asshole treated my daughter the way that fucktard treated me, I'd take a baseball bat to him.

And, it's hard to get recourse via sexual harassment laws. You may well win a lawsuit, but you often lose your job and end up spending months in court trying to be vindicated for something that should never have happened in the first place. Yes, there are civil remedies, but in my experience, they aren't super effective. I actually liked working with cops the best. The department had been integrated years before, and if someone pissed you off, you could speak your piece without getting reprimanded. Working for a woman boss, that's another story.

you had a terrible situatiion. but i wouldn't characterize it as "bullying". I WOULD classify it as sexual harassment. that said, in the current climate, descrimination and harassment cases are almost impossible to win. the courts have eviscerated the laws that were supposed to protect against those things.

and good luck winning a retaliation case if they fire you for filing the complaint.

 

[catzmeow]

nice. but doesn't have anything to do with the issue here.

I thnk that it's something that people don't really understand, unless they've experienced it. I'm a single mom. My job is all that stands between my kids and poverty. Beyond that, it pays me well enough that I am able to give my kids a comfortable home and keep them in good schools. Walking away from my company, in light of the current economic situation in my community, and the fact that my home's value has dropped by probably 25% in the last 2 years, if not more, is not an option for me right now. So, I can see how that situation could be ripe for abuse, and an employee would be without recourse.

My company has a bullying policy already, thankfully.