Workplace Bullying Stories

Be Kind, You Never Know What Is Going To Happen...  When I first started my job at a hospital I really had a hard time with my boss. She was very mean and I just kept on working. Although it was hard, and ...

Colleagues Telling Lies About Me To Line Manager - Performance Now Being Scrutinised   I work as a Secretary for a City Council in Scotland. There are 4 secretaries that share an office, 2 of which were there for 2 years before me and another ...

Workplace Bully Psychopath  I truly understand what the person is going through, a co worker and I are experiencing the affects of bullying. I talked with a counselor before I could ...

A List of Reasons For Being Bullied, Harassed, Abused, Threatened and Personally Injured  It is interesting to know, that people who get bullied or injured in some other way, are usually people that possess one, some or all of the following ...

Manicurist And Florist  I don't have a dramatic story. Off and on, all my life I have been bullied a little by a few domineering people. I found it hard to stick up for myself ...

Indirect Bullying Then Denied As Paranoia  I starting dating a man whom at the time seemed perfectly okay. Unbeknown to me this man knew some of my work colleagues and instead of telling me decided ...

Bullied Once And Refrained From Return Years Later  2005. I joined a big Telco company as a contractor. Before 6 months they offered me a perm position that I accepted gratefully. My reputation of reliable,...

Beauty Shop Bully Part Two  In my last story, I had just moved to another shop. This one was booth rental too. The owner of the shop was the bully this time and the other 5 girls ...

Kevmo Dude  I was bullied for about 8 years at work. I ended up with a drink problem went into rehab and am now in recovery. It took me a long time to realise that ...

Bullying In The Helping Professions  I find it very ironic that managers and coworkers can say that they are all for clients but when they interact with coworkers, they treat them with much ...

Unbelievable  It is a long story... but I reluctantly took a job in a very small Unit that I was my area of expertise. I say reluctantly due to the fact that there was ...

Asking For Advice...  After a decade of bullying by one coworker, with the covert aid of the department manager, it is still escalating. I am tired of getting dirty looks from ...

Long, Slow Recovery After Bullying At Bank  I wish to tell you my story. I said some of it already, and tried to keep it positive, but if I am kidding anyone, its me. Bullying hurts like hell, and ...

Education Consultant  I have worked for company for 6 years. My boss has always seemed to dislike me and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to change this. He blames ...

Always Getting Bullied  No matter where I go, what employment I get I am always bullied in the organisation. It makes me think what I am doing wrong. I was bullied every single ...

Workplace Bulying Led To Sexual Harrassment  I have worked for a company for seven years and I have never seen a company like this before!! This company has several office bullies, one which has been ...

Being Bullyed For Being Too Shy  I had a lot of jobs in my life and I do admit that I am a bit quiet at work, mostly because I try very hard to stay away from negativity in the workplace....

Higher Education Hell  I have worked in higher education for years. I accepted my present position to escape a serious bullying environment that was not adequately addressed ...

Lead in the Office  Came into the back office and the word shit was written through my name. The person responsible made an apology that was very insincere. The manager of ...

Finally Free After 2 Years!  I took the job with some trepidation because parts of it involved routine, administrative work, and I'm a highly skilled and experienced IT person (databases,...

New Bullying Petition  I am campaigning for a change in legislation in which the issues of bullying are dealt with within the workplace.

In the United Kingdom and Ireland ...

Ex Boyfriend Nightmare  I dated a man for 5 years. We had a good relationship. I worked hard to treat him well and he worked hard to treat me well. Four years into the relationship ...

Former Executive Director / The Devil's Playmate  I worked at a prominent community service organization that takes pride in the slogan "we build strong kids, families and communities". It also has a mission ...

Bullying Paranoid Schizophrenic  In our remote rural area with a limited population base it is very difficult to find volunteers for our nonprofit organization. As director, I must pick ...

Alive and Well, It Exists  My husband committed suicide over this issue; the perpetrators took my bright and personable husband and had him questioning his very sanity. It took its ...

Retail Store Manager Needs Advice  I am a manager at a well known retail store, my issue is with another manager who is on the same level as myself. We used to be ok with each other I used ...

Bullied at a Large Super Market and My Health Has Suffered  Depression, anixety, weight loss, insomnia, is just some of how I'm feeling after being bullied. It started over a year ago, I got a job in a large store ...

Bipolar Coworker  I need help/advise/suggestions!
I recently was hired by a small telecommunications vendor company... I love my job and I'm good at it. My problem -- the ...

Workplace Bullying Victim  I was employed at a company for over four years as an Accounts Payable Coordinator. I have always been considered to be a loyal, considerate, helpful, productive ...

Abuse of Power  Need help... hoping someone will have advice. This is an emotionally charged situation, so objectivity is the key for me. There are other workers in this ...

Public Service Bullies Rewarded While Target Forced Out  Hi, my name is Cathy. I worked for the public service for nearly 30 years. A member of management made a sexual advance toward me about 2 yrs into my career....

Interactive Design Job Turns Sour  Hi There, glad I found this site. I joined a company in Leicester Square London via an agency last September. The company specialises in interactive design ...

Coworker Bully Backed by Coworkers   I was hired over a 1 yr ago into a small office; upon my hire all my fellow employees each in their own way warned me about a fellow employee who was a ...

Husband and Wife in the Workplace Resulting in an Uneven Power Base  I work in a close, busy environment with other health professionals, clients and their friends and families.

A couple have been working in our unit ...

Beauty School Bully  I am a cosmetology student in an adult program. Heck, I'm almost 30 years old! My story starts with a client. A women in my class had a regular client....

Bullying By Women Managers  About two years ago I offered my services as a volunteer to a Brussels based NGO, the deal was that I would work to procure EU Commission funded research ...

Bullying In A Community Center  Recently I have been a target of bullying in the work place I've been called things like "too nice, phony, sneaky etc" When I first started working at ...

The Three-Headed Snake  I worked in a lovely, small nursing home for 12 1/2 years. For many years, I loved it. I had my own staff and could create programming however I wanted....

No Good Employee Shall Go Unpunished  I was a 17 1/2 year employee at a hospital. I always got great evaluations and never thought that my job was in danger. I have received hundreds of accolades ...

Evil Lecturers  I was bullied by a lecturer, since the first day. The most traumatising part was telling another lecturer and finding out that that he saw it as totally ...

An Unusual Case of Bullying  I have a most unusual story of bullying.

It involves my local 'friendly' supermarket. I am a customer there and have been so for many years. Two women ...

Beauty Shop Bully  It took me a year to realize what was going on where I worked. My self confidence wasn't there anymore and I went from working five days a week to three....

Being Bullied And Then Wrongfully Terminted  For over 1 year I have had to deal with a supervisor whom I "inherited" when my original supervisor resigned after 17 years with the company.

He wasn'...

The Postal Service Has Shown That They Are Above The Law  With Obama being in office now, maybe the law will apply to the USPS, it's harasser and allies.

Harassment without accountability at the USPS has gone ...

Strong But Not Sure How Long  I work at a newspaper which is part of a large newspaper company. I am succeeding in my job. Won 15 awards over a year's time, often on television for ...

It Is Just a Facade  I'm currently working for a well known corporation who presents themselves as protector leaders in today's financial markets. It's all a facade. This is ...

Workplace Bullying at Hospital  My hospital employer is posting negative comments that patients make on a satisfaction survey. Some of these comments contain the full names of some employees....

The Circle - Mobbing Within a Family Business  I have a very unique workplace bullying and mobbing case. My husband is the owner of the company and his older brother is his partner. Many days the workers ...

Civl Servant Dublin City Ireland  I am feeling very down at the moment and suffering from physical illness as a result of bullying. It is taking the form of belittling me and my work, nitpicking,...

Almost 9 Years Down the Tubes  I did volunteering work for nearly 9 years until I was forced to take a sabbatical for nearly the past year due to a suit brought against the place I voluntarily ...

Personnel Director as Serial Bully   I worked in an international HQ and the personnel director (!) was a "serial bully". He had multiple targets, but one head target: the VP of that organisation....

Filthy Temp  I don’t really know how to begin this. It’s going to seem far-fetched, untrue, and paranoid to most people. I still don’t know if it was some delusion ...

Postal Worker Subjected to Workplace Mobbing  I have been the victim of selective discrimination, bullying and harassment for the past two years as I am French Canadian from Quebec. The instigator ...

Fighting Back and Taking on Bully... Legally  It has been five months since I resigned due to the relentless attacks from a bully coworker and supervisor, from the job and work that I enjoyed doing,...

Mobbed/Bullied at Work  I went to work for (Company Name) a division of (Parent Company Name) in May 2008 and worked there until I was fired on October 17, 2008. I feel over a ...

Project Officer  I was in a inter company 5 years, the last year and a half was when the bullying started because, this is the ironic part : I was asked to take on certain ...

Covert Tactics By Corporations  Wow! Where do I start? I work at (international courier company). I have had sups running "skits" on me for two years. I have had everything that I am....

Bullying/Mobbing in Public Sector  I work for a local government as a middle manager. My duties include training and supervising junior employees. A few years ago a new employee was hired ...

Teacher Assistant at a Middle School  I used to work in a corporate bank for over 21 years as an executive assistant until my department decided to move to another state. I was given a generous ...

Petition to Pass an Anti-Bullying Healthy Workplace Bill  Hi All, If you are a US resident please sign this petition to pass an Anti-Bullying Healthy Workplace Bill.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/anti-bullying-...

Teacher Being Bullied :(  I started a new teaching job and from day one, people have been horrible to me. I'm constantly ignored, excluded, and set up to find myself in the line ...

Banking Representative Being Bullied  I have been here before. The story is the same. I am very competent, very intelligent, dedicated to my work, and a great person - yet someone (a peer or ...

Back to Work  My story begins after returning to work after an 8 year absence to have my youngest two children. I returned to the place I had previously worked but in ...

Unemployed Government Worker Suffers From PTSD  I worked for an elected official, several in fact for many years. My former boss was very nice personable man. He was also ineffective, a boss in name ...

Bully Boss?  Our company had a casual worker, who was okay to work with, but after she was offered the manager job she changed personality. She did not ask me how I ...

Hair Salon Owner and Renter Bully  I rented a chair at a hair salon and was there for a total of 4 months before I was able to find another salon in the same area (to keep the clientelle ...

Teacher's Assistant Targeted by Bullies Asks "Why Me?"  I wonder if anyone out there can help me, I started work a few months ago in a school as a teaching assistant although I have done this work in another ...

Mean Girls   I started working at a test engineering facility several months ago. I got along with everyone really well except for two girls. We were all assistants ...

Mobbed in Indiana  I have two co-workers who are like night and day. The are both older than I am. I really like working with them but the emotional strain is becoming difficult....

Bullied Out of Sales Jobs  I have been working in two different stores here, and I can't believe how bad the issue is. I have been called names, on the sales floor by others, taunted,...

Bullying On the Prairies  You know how you sometimes have an “eureka” moment in life, when you “finally get it”? Recently I had that moment when it finally sunk in that the reason ...

Bullies Rob Your Self-Esteem Unless You Trust Yourself  After my divorce I left Colorado and lived temporarily in Texas near my mother where I worked at JCPenney. I soon became the target of three young hairstylists....

Executive Secretary  The accountant at our small company that I have worked at for about 3 years was friendly to me at first, but now finds it necessary to make references ...

DCC is a Hell Hole  My Bully experience came from a variety of people. From the LPN who thought she was the DON, the MDS coordinator, and the Administrator. I had never received ...

Horror Story in New York City - The Company You Keep? What a Joke!  I was hired as a consultant where I currently was for a year before I became an employee on Oct. 21, 2001, the manager at the time was very pleased with ...

Bullying Happens to Senior Management As Well!   “Bullying in the workplace is usually seen as acts or verbal comments that could mentally hurt or isolate someone. Sometimes, bullying can involve negative ...

As Long As She's Nice to the Customers, Right?  I just left my job, where I was the target of a bully for nearly 10 months. I took the job knowing that she may be a potential problem, but I was told ...

Bullying Leads to Grievance, Sick Leave, Threats of Termination  Have worked for the organisation for 2 years and suffered from bullying. The perpetrator has formed a clique with the other members of the team to exclude ...

Counselor Target of Malicious Gossip  I started working as a counselor in February 2008. When I entered the job, I made friends quickly, I became very popular with the patients. In this type ...

Bank IT Worker Humiliated  My name is Gabriel, and I am from Argentina. I am working for a bank in Toronto in the IT department. Since I started working here, I've been humiliated ...

Currently: The Most Hated Person In Our Team  I hardly know where to start. I've sunk so low I'm not even sure I can remember a day I have not cried 'til I thought I would die from it. I often wish ...

Health Care Bullies  Bullying is a hallmark of the health care industry. I am a victim of bullying. I could not dream that nurses and main line health care staff could revert ...

Janitorial Maintenance  I've been bullied for about 6 years. My little part time job requires me to clean public buildings, such as community, city hall, department of public ...

Backstabbing Coworker  I work with someone who is a backstabber to all that know them. When I became new in this position one of my friends warned me about them and gave me advise ...

08Bullying - UK Petition  I was bullied by a manager for over 12 months. I made a formal complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman with regards to the way the City Council dealt ...

Workplace Bullying Alive and Well in a Large Aerospace Firm  I work in a large Aerospace firm in Germany. I am a US citizen. I have been employed with the firm for over 3 years, on the same project incident free....

Financial Counselor Endures Mobbing Then Bullying  I have experienced mobbing, left without notice and then was bullied on my next job. The mobbing happened when I was at a branch office. One of the main ...

Software Engineer Faces Workplace Mobbing  I've recently awoken to this problem because suddenly I have also become a victim of one of these forms of Psychological Harassment, more specifically ...

HR Heart of Toxic Workplace Rife with Bullying, Sexism, Racism, Corruption  When I got my now former job (June 2005) I thought I'd be happy. Everyone seemed cool, the job looked like something I'd enjoy, and my boss looked like ...

Try to Hang in There for the Severance  Having worked previously in the Legal/Compliance Department for a large corporation in the private sector, I learned how far an employer can and will go ...

Bullied But Held My Dignity  Hello. I started working and for the first several months things were great. Good boss, great work reviews until the person training me started telling ...

Set Up 'N' Wiped Out  I started my new job as contracts manager 2 1/2 years ago. My employer was quite impressed by my skills and eagerness to work and was awarded quarterly ...

Supervisor at Health Care Facility Speaks Out  I work in a health care facility, I am a male RN and supervise aides (majority being women). My concern is that the aides seem to have a problem with taking ...

Target of Workplace Bullying Asks, "What's Happening To Me?"  I am at present going through a very emotional and stressful time at work with my manager and senior staff I'm constantly having to watch my back. I can'...

How To Transcend Workplace Bullying  I have recently survived a workplace bully. He was the manager of a group of 7 people, myself included. This was a group of people who loved what they ...

Bullies Rationalize Their Behavior  This story took place about 20 years ago. I was working as a bus boy at a catering hall. It involved a fellow teenager named Gary who had a weird sense ...

Working in Health Care Industry is Not Always Healthy  Years ago I worked for a major health care provider in So. California. I worked in the admissions department and loved my job. The people I worked with ...

My Story - Judy Wells  I was a victim of bullying. My name is Judy and I am one of four children, two brothers and another sister. Bullying is like stress, the acts or symptoms ...

The Product Of A Poisonous Town  I have been bullied for over 6 years now. It all started when I decided to improve my life, confidence and self esteem. First I went to the gym, changed ...

Professional Speaker and Trainer  I current speak professionally and train on workplace bullying. I have seen terrible workplace bullying and have even been on the receiving end.

I ...

Policy and Procedure? Bah!  Bullying can make you sick! I can't work at all. I have to accept my life may never be the same again. Every aspect of my life has been affected. As well ...

List 2 - How To Protect Yourself When Working  1. When starting in a job and it doesn't matter if you are twenty five or forty five years old, always carry a diary with you and keep a note of things ...

Action Against Workplace Bullying Through Petition  There is plenty of publicity in the form of articles, books, websites, blogs, that document the fact that workplace bullying is a serious problem. These ...

Bullying At My Workplace  Hi, I have finally realized that I am since years being mobbed at my workplace from my own manager. As I am very successful in my department, whenever ...

Professor's Bullying Behaviour  I was working for a Professor for a few years, he was and still is a bully. The first thing that he constantly did was to keep me until 12 midnight after ...

Manicurist  Hi,

I have been reading a lot about bullying lately and recognizing the patterns that I have experienced over the years. However, I never worked in ...

Instructor  My boss' 2nd in command is married to my bully. She seems to think that her way is the only way and has made it perfectly clear that I must be stupid because ...

Company Trainer  I have been working at a company for 22 years, see Quality Managers, come and go. About five years ago, a new boss came in. Thirty days later, it was time ...

A Helpful Tip To Stop A Bully  After years of enduring chronic bullying by a volunteer whose skills we desperately need for our nonprofit organization, I came up with a solution that ...

Mobbing In A Union  I'll try to make this as short as possible. A few months ago, some people got transferred to our department where I worked. They where not part of our ...

Workplace Bullying In A Government Agency  From the day I started my job in a government agency I was never really welcomed or included by the existing team members. But I didnt make a thing of ...

Schadenfreude  I have just been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to workplace mobbing. I cannot quit my job because I need my health benefits. Two years ...

Bullying Information And Advice  I too, was a victim of bullying. For those who think it only happens to the young, think again! I am now in my forties, and needed to rest for a very long ...

Hygeine Operative  Hi to everyone visiting this website. My name is Darren. I am 39 years of age suffering severe mental health issues, depression, social phobia, suicidal ...

Mail Clerk  I started working for the government almost 20 years ago. The bullying started about 15 years ago by a male coworker who is still working right next door ...

Consultant  I worked for a large US based consulting firm. I was a project manager for a US government funded project overseas, and would occassionaly visit the project ...

The Price of Integrity  Over the course of 17 years of employment at a hospital, I was on the receiving end of bullying, harrassment and descrimination at the hands of not only ...

Bullying in Schools  I have worked for a while in a school, when a parent complained about me to management about me being rude to her. When the office manager told me this ...

Stepping Out Of The Triangle, But Into The Fire!  I am incredibly disillusioned at what I thought were two very close coworker/friends' behavior. This is long and I apologize but you'll need some details....

Bullied By an Executive  I've been a team manager for years. I'm confident, enthusiastic and give my best at work. I believe my boss, an executive, targetted me because of their ...

Where The "Circle" Began  I recently submitted a short description of my experience with workplace bullying in our family business. The fact that this takes place in a family run ...

Totally Lost and Depressed  I've been with this company for several years and was an exemplary employee. I didn't have any work problems until I transferred to another department ...

Nasty Email  I have been working at this company for about 4 years. The other woman I work with has been there for 30 years. We are the only two women in the office....

Bullied Baker Needs Advise  Hi, I have been bullied in the workplace for the last 6 month by my supervisor. There is no yelling or screaming just alot of nit-picking. You see I am ...

Suck It Up? SUCK IT UP??? What AM I, a Vacuum Cleaner?  Three years ago, when I was working in the corporate office of a chain-store jeweler, I was the target of a workplace bully. L. would single out employees ...

Government Funded Medical Facility Support Worker  I work in a government funded medical facility. One of the doctors there does not like me and has made no secret of it. He has stopped staff meetings to ...

Truth Sayers Are Not Bullies  As a person who speaks up about leadership bullying destroying our small towns on the prairies, I was stunned when a friend told me that I was a bully....

Baby Business Boss from Hell  I was running a number of country units for a baby business (YEP!) in Europe. Joining this "lifestyle" company my then boss already proved to be extremely ...

Nursing Home Bullying  I was happy, after graduating from college, to obtain a job at a nursing home as a Social Worker. Since childhood I have volunteered with the elderly ...

They Wanted Me to Wash Their Cars  In July of 2007 I was hired in a Sales role with a U.S.-based company in Toronto and in September of 2007 I started working for them. For the first 3 months ...

Satanic Department Chair  I am an English/photography teacher at a rural community college. I want to start here by noting that I have been a consistently high-performing employee ...

Municipal Building Dept. Division Head  First, thank you for this helpful website. It has helped me cope and understand the insidiousness of bullying/mobbing, which I personally was a target ...

Bullying and Playing with My Phobias  I work in the office of a manufacturer in the Midwest. I have a deep phobia regarding snakes, I get physically ill when I see one. My co-workers know this ...