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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,...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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....
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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'...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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....
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 ...
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....
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 ...
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-...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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....
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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