Bullying at work
July 18th, 2007 by Jurga Galvan
With national ‘Ban bullying at work’ day on November 7th this year, several issues are once again raised. As terrible as it sounds, bullying in the workplace is still an issue for many and life threatening for some.
While bullying at work may not necessarily take on the guise of the playground bully, it’s effects can be just as emotional and threatening. Bullying at work can be described as ANY of the following:
• Staff who are good at their jobs being criticised, given jobs below their skill level or even having responsibility removed.
• Being shouted at.
• Continually being picked on by co-workers or bosses, either in public or private.
• Getting deliberately blocked on promotion.
• Regularly excluding other employees from activities or ignoring them completely.
• Making difficult workloads and deadlines.
• Attacking a member of staff about their appearance or lifestyle.
• Consistently making the same person the issue of jokes.
This small list is just an example of what bullying CAN be, you can probably think of several more right now, but every situation will be different and being general can help you to decide if you may be a victim of bullying or maybe you’re bullying and didn’t realise it!
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