Workplace Bullying Stories

Got Fired After Speaking Up  Worked on a project for about a year, I had a total of 5 managers within that time. Place was unorganized. Anyway, the last supervisor was over the top....

Signed Off  I work in an incredibly busy, stressful, under-staffed Pre-School. My boss is very hostile and unsupportive when anyone calls in sick, and the rest of ...

Rule By Intimidation  I have been employed for over 40 years and have never been bullied, at anytime in my life or career. I have worked for top notch companies, lived in larger ...

Bully Central  How on earth does a naturally pretty and smart female diffuse female envy, mostly over appearance, toward her? I am "her" and I work with about 20 women,...

Sexually Harassed, Bullied, Abused, Humiliated  I have been working with this organization for a long time. I made one major career mistake years ago and it has been all downhill ever since.

I was ...

Bullying In A Social Housing Boardroom  I was the secretary of a new social aged housing apartment block, most of us trained for twelve months to be effective board members which we did for the ...

Asked To Resign  I have worked for the company for just over three years . I have always loved my job until six weeks ago we got a new boss, she is under qualified and ...

Mark M. Rich's Letter to Targets  This is not really a workplace bullying story, but I feel that this letter is so important that I hope Anton can allow it to be read by people on these ...

Friend Of Boss An Obnoxious Bully  My boss, the practice manager and owner's wife, has appointed her best friend as her "assistant" to act as the manager when she is out of the office.

This ...

From One Bully To The Next?  I've written here before and have always felt heard and supported. My being bullied has led me into a deep depression and social withdrawal. I have not ...

Mobbing on the PTA  My job was not a paid position, rather I was a volunteer on the PTA of my children's school. The dynamics were that of a mobbing, bullying group vs. me ...

Bad Management Supports Bullying  I witness someone stealing at work, it's considered theft and then when I reported in HR, they gave me a warning letter of harassment and malicious act....

Bulling From A Co-Worker At Management Meeting  I work for a management company that owns 13 hotels, as a manager of one of the hotels. Twice per year we have 3 day meetings to review policies and company ...

Fed Up  It all started when two co-workers had a disagreement with their boss, which happens to be my husband. I was targeted as their pawn to get back at him....

Workplace Bullying  I was beginning to feel like the only person in the world who was aware of the bullying going on in the fast food industry. I was bullied horrifically ...

Am I A Bully?  I'm being bullied by a two headed snake. My doctor suggested that I avoid the bully as much as possible due to my pre-existing health issue, PTSD. So I ...

Australia Needs Federal Anti-Bullying Legislation!  Australia needs federal anti-bullying legislation to ensure that bullying is a punishable offence sending a clear message to the bullying culture within ...

Law Firm Bully Boss  My boss is a lawyer. Part of my job as a legal assistant is to make sure that the firm's settled cases get moved along in a timely manner so that the proceeds ...

Co-worker Is The Bully, No One Will/Can Stop Her  My bully is a 'attention seeker' with 'gatekeeper' and 'serial' bullying tendencies. I suppose not being her only victim is a little comfort, in that I ...

Brodie's Law  From The Age, Melbourne, September 7, 2011

Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark is preparing a proposal to urge other states and territories to emulate ...

Dispatch Specialist  My manager could not stand me. I got fed up with her and my supervisors treatment of me. I was friends with my ex manager and everytime we spoke on our ...

I Was Bullied At Work  I started working with this woman about 4 years ago. She was not in charge then and there were only 4 of us in our work area. Our supervisor got transferred ...

Dental Hygienist  For 2 1/2 years I worked for a woman dentist in northwest PA, during this time I witnessed and experienced the most cruel, manipulative, evil behavior ...

Career Advisor  I have worked for a college for five years. The first two years were good; really good and I thought I had found the place from which I would retire.

Then ...

Bullied At Work – Need Advice  Hi, I have recently experience bullying in my workplace - It is horrible people say comments and make me to be as the bad guy when I am actually good at ...

Bullied At Work :(  I recently have been bullied at work with the person in question making belittling comments about my work. If I try to defend myself by justifying things ...

Got Out And It Feels GOOD!  After reading others stories I feel compelled to share mine.

I was a senior level HR manager at a successful national company. Initially my relationship ...

Favorited Rude Employee Bullies Others  I got hired at a small coffee shop/ice cream shop/gas station almost two years ago. It is a very new place, and wasn't even open yet when I got hired. At ...

Member of Homeowner Association Board  I have been bullied by our Homeowner Association Board president. Everytime I suggested something, he would ridicule me. One time he laughed in my face....

Surviving Small Town Bullying  In early May 2011 a member in my brother's family was allegedly murdered in a nearby town by her law enforcement officer husband and the home was set on ...

Its Not Right And There's No Way Out  I've been working for a large company for two years and often get letters of commendation from the clients I work for. I have never had a day off sick ...

The Loneliness of Dissent  It is quite horrifying. Day upon day I am being seriously "bullied" by my manager, and dissenting openly and publicly about it. Others in my team are fully ...

Bullied By Unnecessary Procedures  I work in a very a large organization. Over the past five years a huge number a new work procedures have been introduced, most of which have been poorly ...

Group Tutor Bully Uses Personal Information About Targets As Ammunition  Not workplace exactly but somewhere that I was receiving ongoing training at an educational institution. I was verbally attacked and subjected to a barrage ...

Fast Food Restaurant's Abusive Managers  Hi I'm Trent. I work at (a well known fast food restaurant). I've been there three years I've been bullied at work for as long as I can remember. Which ...

Bullies Try To Humiliate And Intimidate Worker In New Position  Recently having endured sexual discrimination and sexist remarks from previous male management, and despite my assertiveness which then led to further ...

Bullied By Senior  I am a 24 year old lady. I being bullied since last 9 months. I am working in a subsidiary organisation. My department is a new and I am the first person ...

Beware: Bullying Can Become Ingrained In An Organization  I worked for 15 years in a highly successful and profitable financial services office.

I joined the office with its new head, who had recruited me ...

Bullying at Boarding School (Lifegaurd Work)  At the age of 17 I began my first job as a lifeguard at a well known boarding school in the UK. At the time of starting I was happy to be in a profession ...

Blacklisted in Community Corrections  After reading many of the articles and stories on this site, I am compelled to share one of my own. It pertains to Community Corrections/Halfway Houses,...

Helpless  I have been being bullied since Christmas, being stared at, followed to the rest room, numerous things. Too many to list. I have had break downs at work....

Is This Bullying Of A Teacher?  Is this bullying? I am a resource special education teacher that works in three different classrooms. The first classroom contains very nice and welcoming ...

First Job Bullying  I was 18 when I first had my job at a yogurt place. It was a yogurt place, how hard could it be? It wasn't hard at all, I just hated the people there, specially ...

It's A Long Road Back...  I began working for this company five years ago, having been offered the job by a friend. From the time I started, I knew the staff didn't like me. They ...

Abused Business Manager  My boss is masterful at winning debates or discussions and knows how to put a spin on things so good work is really the result of luck or others' contributions....

Target Practice  My boyfriend owns a small landscaping business, and I have helped him run it for eight years. I am currently attending school as my B.S. was exactly that ...

Bullied By My Upper Management  I have been being bullied by my upper management. They have been trying to cut our staff. But instead of doing it the right way and laying people off they ...

Being Different  I work in an office environment and get along with the boss, his boss right up to the MD. I have never been one to join in social events etc. I often keep ...

Have To Give To My Non-Profit?  I work for a small non-profit but one with huge political connections. About a week ago my boss gave us all a letter that was written by the chairman of ...

Sabotaged Out Of A High Paying Job I Loved  At the age of 37 in May 2009, I landed an executive job at an up and coming company with high visibility. The company relocated me to New York from my ...

I Got In Trouble For Hiring You!  It started, as a new hire, my boss came up to me and said to me, "I got in trouble for hiring you!" I asked why. I got no response. Then from there I was ...

Targeted at Work  My mobbing at my job began in 2002 when my coworkers began repeating conversations I have in the privacy of my own home and phone. I thought I was loosing ...

Feel Like The Velveteen Rabbit  I work in a military field. I used to be a person that many I worked with thought as someone they wanted on their team. Lately, I feel my family would ...

Favoritism And Bullying In A Small Office  This sounds pathetic and I'm almost embarrassed to talk about it, but its a true story: I work in a small office doing administrative work running a company ...

Workplace Bullying At Non-Profit Organization  I have worked for a WIA nonprofit organization for over 11 years. The first year I was promoted and everything went well until in 2002 the Executive Director ...

Eyes Wide Shut  My 'mobbing' story happened at university. Having learning disabilities, and Asperger's Syndrome, I often had to work harder than other people to accomplish ...

Bullying And The Spiritual Journey...  I feel the need to write this as I think that bullying as part of a 'spiritual journey' does not seem to be very often touched upon. That may be because ...

Hopeless In The Workplace  My ex-husband works in the same facility that I do and so did the woman that he married. They have both gone out of their way to spread their warped, distorted ...

Bulllied At A Consulting Office  I am a 40 years man who had been bullied throughout school and university and now bullied at the workplace. I work secretarial and administrative work ...

Sexual Harassment and Bullying in Academia  My job or should I say my vocation, is in biomedical research and I have worked in university environments as well as in research institutions. Up until ...

Why Do You Have To Bully Me?  Kiki's Bullied Guide

1. Never show fear to anyone. It just makes them take advantage of it.

2. NEVER cry over it. It just makes them seem like they'...

Bullied By My Boss Who Was A Friend  I've worked for a company for four years. I got promoted to duty manager a year ago by my friend the manager who put my name forward for six months. The ...

The Bully Was The Owner   Changing the names to protect the not so innocent. I worked for a company for 6 years until the last year of that job nearly drove me over the edge of ...

My Team Leader Stole My Self-Esteem  I have worked for the # 1 health care leader in San Diego. My Team Lead is very moody, she is going through a divorce. When we have one on one meetings ...

Bullying In Music Business  Reading all the articles here I can recognise I had a really bad bullying experience with people I used to work with.

I work in music business, basically ...

Bullied At Several Jobs  The first real job I had was at a McDonald's. It was ok at first until this new girl was hired. She would stand back with the other co-workers and talk ...

Bullies At My Local Store Find A New Tactic  The two bullies working at my local store have taken to walking away from their place of work every time I come into the store to shop.

Although they ...

Target of Workplace Bullying Labelled SCHIZOID  I was bullied once. I was twenty six years old and came to Melbourne from Queensland. I was going through a divorce and also left my job. A friend of mine ...

Is This Workplace Bullying?  Hi, I am a teacher at an English language school. A teacher has made a formal complaint of bullying against another teacher. This teacher, let's call her ...

VP Finance  Suffice to say, bullies continue to bully -- even when you move on.

As someone who has fought (and resolved) workplace issues, I have some very good ...

My Bully Abusive Witch Of A Boss  I worked about a year and a half on and off for a very creative person who as time went on became more and more abusive, aggressive, and manipulative. There ...

Coworkers Make Fun Of Me But Are Nice When They Need Something  I am bullied at work. I'm a female highschool senior and am not the most verbal (guess that is the right word) person but am really compassionate and I ...

Bullies Don't Breed Overnight  I have told my story several times. Right now I would like to honor the survivors and encourage them to keep going. Everyday is an opportunity to make ...

Bullying At Work  I work with all men and up until the last 6 months was the only woman - now there is just us two.

My foreman is treating me differently to the others....

No More Work For Me  I haven't worked for 3 years. Why? I was so tired of being terrorized at work. The false rumors and constant physical altercations proved to be enough....

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Trying To Move On  I'm embarrassed to say that I still think about my workplace bullying experience even now, five years later. I dreaded going to work because this person,...

Speaking Up After Almost 6 Years Of Abuse  After almost 6 years of abuse I spoke up! It was like I couldn't stop once I started. I actually don't care if they fire me - I wanted it - enough is ...

Bullied RN  "Workplace violence is any act against an employee that creates a hostile work environment and negatively affects the employee either physically or psychologically....

Homophobic Abuse at University Had Long Lasting Effects  I am writing to the blog to relate a serious incident of bullying that I experienced while a student at University. I was subjected to repeated sexual ...

Retired Government Appraiser  It happened years ago. I was a clerk in the property tax office, and I took college courses to become a real estate appraiser -- 2 yrs after the civil ...

Alliance Lead By Princess Bully  It was well when I joined the company 7 months ago, there were challenges and conflicts between employees but it was not at serious and personal, until ...

Bully Packs Engage In Mobbing, Sexual Harassment And Psychological Terror  I have spent the last year recovering from the worst employment experience of my life. The first issue was that I could not put a client through to any ...

Being Reasonable With Bullies Doesn't Work  I have been bullied at work for years by my boss and several sychophants whom that person poisoned against me right from the start.

The boss is a long ...

Meat Plant Rife With Abuse, Racism and Violence  I worked at a meat works called name removed for a long time all of the bosses there pick on one person or another, but the two big bosses, father and ...

My Workplace Bullying Story And Advise To All Decent People  I like to give you my story, regarding workplace bullying. I was a victim of it myself. I am old now, and being offered a new job will be hard for many ...

Bullied All My Life!  Hello everyone, bullying throughout my life has always been a (severe problem). From my early school days, 12-16 years and continued into the workplace,...

Bullied By A Deeply Insecure Boss  For the first 2 years in my job I had excellent feedback about my performance. I was passionate, dedicated and creative. During this time I was given more ...

Medical Abuse  In 1976 a GP promised me help with a phobia at the time of giving birth. He went back on his word. I was put through a sexual abuse related phobia. My ...

The Bullies Won  While working for the Australian government I witnessed a gay guy being bullied. After submitting my version of events I was repeatedly victimised by management ...

Bully Says, "Any Monkey Can Do What You Do"  This week is a year I left a govt company for another with a longer contract for job security purposes. Before accepting the position I was warned of the ...

Telescum New Zealan*  I studied hard and earned my degree and postgrad qualifications at the university, achieving grade a+ in internet subjects. Then I joined Telescum New ...

Workplace Mobbing In Government Department  I work for a government department that I joined straight after year 12. I was sent to a new work location after 12 months maternity leave, and suffering ...

Women Bullies In Investment Bank  I have started to work for a huge top ten international investment bank over 2 years ago. It was not my first job and I was hired because of my skills ...

Nursing Assistant  I work in a maternity ward, taking care of mothers and newborns. The staff consists of Registered nurses and some licenced practical nurses and nursing ...

Workplace Bully Engages In Sabotage  Hi, I have worked in my firm for 22 years, and in the last 3 years moved to a different part. I really like the job, I work in a very busy area with one ...

Is This Bullying?  The risk manager at work is planning to "scare" a vendor whom she believes said something "untrue" about one of our employees. She is going to scare him ...

HR Director Bullied For 12 Years  I'm the Director of Administration and Human Resources for a nonprofit corporation. I have been bullied for 12 years; the last 7 very intensely. By accident ...

Insurance Policy Processor  I have been harassed at work for 2 years and 3 months, starting in earnest when I called in sick the day after a week's vacation (I really was sick). I ...

Workplace Bullying Is A Core Element Of Management  Bullying or mobbing exist in the workplace because those in charge, both management and unions, nurture it. The workplace culture and it's rules have failed ...

Anonymous In Austin, TX  I have worked in a business office with two older women. One of these is a bully who seems to hate me for whatever reason. She is constantly saying unkind ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hostess/Server  I had to start working at an early age because my mom left me home alone with no food or money. I got a job in an Italian restaurant at the age of fifteen....

Bullied From Day Three In A New Job  I started my new job in September, although I had been working voluntarily and in a different role within the organisation for roughly a year. I love my ...

It's All In The Past  My heart goes out to each and everyone of you. I was there, the situation was so bad that I eventually walked out of work one afternoon and went home. I ...

Workplace Bullying Incident Reporting Form  Hi. Since I've come to terms with my "born to be bullied" condition, I've researched methods to try and get some control over it. So I've lovingly prepared ...

Retail Warzone  After reading some of the stories I think I am a target of a workplace bully.

Here is my story:

I started working at a well known retail store where ...

All Of A Sudden I Can't Do Anything Right  I work at a non-profit and have for 7 years now. I wear many hats: I am the paperwork HR person, P/R person, Executive Assistant, Development Assistant,...

Dogs and Cats, and Bullies, Oh My!  I still vividly recall the first (and with any luck, last) time I left a job on bad terms. I was working in the boarding kennel of a large vet hospital....

Bullying Has Left Scars  When the bullying was happening at work I made excuses for the person that was doing it and I allowed myself to believe that it was my fault, that I need ...

Workplace Bullying An Unsolved Problem For An Excecutive  The top managers could not understand or pretending not to understand I do not know, at last I spoke to CEO about the actual situation I am facing from ...

Business Opportunity Seeker Gone Mad  It all started October 2008, my employee was doing telemarketing work for me, recruiting qualified candidates for our business development company. My ...

Waitress Will Not Go Back  Recently after my high school graduation, I started working as a part-timer for a restaurant in Austin. The owner is the cook and his wife is the person ...

Bullying By Junior Staff As Well As Senior Manager  Without asking an explanation from my side and without knowing how I work I am frequently asked by my boss to provide all the documents to junior staff ...

No Consquences For The Victim  I am tired of being a victim. I was in special ed in class and was called named and then I graduated and complained when it happened at work. I did the ...

I've Experienced Constant Workplace Bullying In Lots Of Ways  I was an NQT last year and I was bullied by the entire early years team. I was not trained in reception, although I was placed there, despite the fact ...

Bullied by Peter Principle  I’ve started to work for one of the most respectful institutions with a great reputation in financial industry last year in August 2010. A new department ...

Work and Online Calender Monitored by Co-Worker  I work for a government department that shares an office with another large organisation. We have calendars on our computers in which we can put appointments ...

Boss Makes Me Punch Out For Team Meetings  In Florida my boss makes me punch out for team meetings? Is this legal to do? So basically I don't get paid when there is a team meeting... I have not ...

Chemist  My co-workers said to me 3 year ago, The service I offer makes me look good and makes him look bad. Since then everything at work is upside down. He managed ...

UK Public Sector Supervisor Bullied By Staff  This is the first time in 22 years full time working that I have worked for a public sector company and I've never experienced mobbing like this in any ...

Live...  I have been a victim of bullying for a long time and I really did not recognize it as that. I just thought some people are just mean and I should stay ...

Document The Bullying  Document the Bullying in a diary that no one knows about:

1. What time did it happen?

2. Where did it happen?

3. Identify the Bully?

4. What ...

Schoolyard Terror  I was bullied. First at home by my Father who inflicted physical pain with the hose, his fists, punches; kicks. He emotionally and psychologically tormented ...

I've Developed Serious Trust Issues After 2 Years Of Bullying  After reading so many of the stories, I too feel compelled to share mine. I worked for the same nonprofit for almost 6 years. After the first year, I was ...

Frustrated With The Man Who Owns The Company  I have worked for the financial company for 20 years. I work directly under the owner. During this time he has said thank you maybe five times. He talks ...

Napoleon At Work  I have 2 bosses (owners of the company), one is super nice and the other just plain bully that hates his life. The thing is that this guy, let's call him ...

Mobbed at Work  My husband was mobbed at work. This began almost 6 years ago. My husband moved to a new job. He was fast tracked through a power plant due to his experience ...

Enough Is Enough  I have been an exceptional worker. I help out and go the extra mile doing what I love. There has been many times when I would even promote the company ...

Employer, Now Former Employer Continues Attacking  I was hired at a non-profit in Pepper Pike, OH in 2008 as the IT Director. My very long road began when my employer directed me to implement file system ...

Mobbing Is Out On The Street  I recently related a story on this site about my experiences with the Cooperative supermarket where I live. To summarise, I was mobbed out of the store ...

HELP! I'm Being Attacked By The Office Cyber Bully!  I'm being attacked by the receptionist at my job. She's tracking every day I'm sick and late on her desk calendar where everyone can see it.

She's ...

Threatened For Making Complaint  Worked in a supermarket. Had a problem. Wanted to make a complaint to the company but someone else got it in the head office and returned it to local ...

Bullied As An Apprentice  I started an apprenticeship at an engineering firm in 1998 at a place where my mother also worked, my first few years went without a hitch working onsite ...

Bullied by Doctor  This is bullying in one of big hospitals. An acting manager needs to discipline to an employee who was continuing to breach hospital policy. This staff ...

Bullied Hospital RN In NH  "Workplace violence is any act against an employee that creates a hostile work environment and negatively affects the employee either physically or psychologically....

Multiple Office Bullies  I have had 3 office bullies in my workplace. There have been others but these are the main ones who have really caused a lot of damage, not only for me,...

Doctor Bullied My Sister!  What does one do when one has complained to the AMA that a doctor told my sister (75 yrs) "to piss off, and that she wasn't his patient"!! She reported ...

Sadly Not A New Story  Before writing, I took the time to read others posts about their bullying experiences. What struck me the most was how long they endured the bullying. Having ...

Waitressing Woes  This summer, I got a job as a waitress at a local restaurant to help pay for my books next semester. My boyfriend works there, so I thought it would be ...

My Boss Is An Awful Bully  My boss is an awful human being. He only cares about himself, not his employees who make the money for him. For the Steel Dept, he cut 25% of their salary ...

The Wanabe  Hi, In my cie we have a Wanabe and I even wonder if it was not written for her!! Personally I just ignore her because anyway each time she tries to sabotage ...

Television Producer-Director  I've been a victim of workplace bullying for my entire career. Both parents smacked me and my brothers around at home, from an early age. Mom "invented"...

Bullying By Having Insufficiently Planned Procedures   I work in a very a large organization. Over the past five years a huge number a new work procedures have been introduced, most of which have been poorly ...

Cry For Help  My name is Paula, and I am 47 years old and I live in Belfast and I was born with a cleft pallet. Over the years I have had quite a few operations. I went ...

Bullied At Work In Aged Care  I have been working for 18 months and really enjoy my new job. I am 49 years old and stand up for myself or so I thought, but all of a sudden one of the ...

Thought They Were My Friends... As We Grow Old, It Never Ends  I should have known better, ya know the feeling we all get in our stomachs when we know someone has a toxic attitude. I never really liked her. She was ...

An Insulted And Damaged Life - A Female Migrant Story In Australia  This is a story about a female migrant in Australia. It is a true story.

A Chinese woman came to Australia 20 years ago, employed in a state government ...

Cook For Non-Profit  I was excited to work cooking healthy and good food for people living on limited incomes. Centre is in poverty stricken area. When I started, noticed that ...

Mob Bullying  I worked in a Project Management System Group for almost 9 years and witnessed "not so nice" treatment of employees. Most recently, a female manager was ...

Treating Me Like A Child  I am treated like a stupid child, (I am going to leave next week, and I think I will have a lawyer present, I know I am entitled to one) I was always behind ...

This Workplace Bully Has No Chance  I write this as an article of hope for those being bullied in a similar work environment. I am soon to be victorious and in such ludicrously short time....

Teacher Looking For Fictional Book For Adults That Highlights Bullying Behavior  I worked for years in special education in an affluent suburban district. My partner-teacher was known to sit at the lunch table telling raucous stories ...

Mobbed in Health Care (Part 4)  From the day I returned the ostracizing and silent treatment continued, and their facial expressions at report was that I was abhorred. None of them would ...

Mobbed in Health Care (Part 3)  The next working day, I approached our old unit manager who was working on another unit (she's a social worker by training) and told her everything that ...

Mobbed in Health Care (Part 2)  At this point, I had started a small diary of the daily co-worker abuse I kept hidden in a zippered compartment in my bag. Their abuse was escalating: the ...

Mobbed in Health Care (Part 1)  After years of being back-stabbed and bullied by three on the shift I worked (they mainly bitched amongst themselves while doing very poor work and dominating ...

Another Crazy Workplace?!  I know I am not lonely experience this problem and it can happen to anyone and I mean anyone. I am a minority from Europe and I work in a southern state....

Driving Me To The Edge  As usual it started off as a bit of fun. My phone was regularly stolen however it was returned so I didn't think anything of it. My car keys were then ...

Division 2 Nurse  Have been employed in same Hospital for 30 years, in heavy, demanding Medical Ward. Am also an below knee Amputee. 3 years ago this manager was found ...

Bullied by the CEO Part 4  INCIDENT NINE: Exactly one week after this incident came the next one. Our CEO was out of office for the day, for some meetings in Charlotte. He called ...

Bullied by the CEO Part 3  INCIDENT SIX: Sexual harassment is a sensitive subject and should be handled as such. During our training we briefly touched on it, but were never told ...

Bullied by the CEO Part 2  INCIDENT THREE: The next project I was given by the CEO was to create a spreadsheet of the office budget and to not let anyone know I was working on it....

Bullied by the CEO Part 1  I had quit my last job as an Assistant Manager at a Fast Food restaurant because of the way they treat their Managers. I pulled an average 60 hours a week ...

Increasingly Isolated  I am on the end of a slander campaign by one or two people in my community. This is related to my previous entries on the supermarket mobbing I have experienced....

Harassment And Legal Action  I have been working with this company for 7 years. 3 years ago, I was relocated to a foreign country on a 3 years contract. I'm hard working and extensively ...

The Christmas Party  I trained DF when he started at the same insurance company as me. He was very confident and brash.

After a year of working there, he stopped speaking ...

Wall Street Analyst  I have done exceptional work all year for my new company. I'm the first one in every morning, I work hard, in a year I've never taken a sick day, and ...

Bullying Online - Cyber Bullying  Hi, I have been bullied on line by a person know to me through one of my previous work. He and his gf and his other friends mock and ridicule me at every ...

The Loan Sharks  Banks have sure changed in the last twenty five years. I was bullied by a bank. I did the most stupid thing I took out a loan which was way over my head....

I'm Being Paid To Be Abused  I've worked for my boss for one year now. At first, he was funny, kind, giving, and supportive. And within two months, it began. The put-downs but he was ...

Bullies Rife In The Caring Professions  A few years ago I worked with a woman who I am sure had a narcissistic personality disorder. Going to work was like walking into hell. Though I knew she ...

Director of Training and Staff Development  I've been currently working for this nonprofit for 4 years now.

The past year has been hell for me. One night after working hours I received a call ...

Getting Blamed For Manager's Mistakes  Everyday my manager would blame me for every mistake that happened in the office, I even got in trouble for her mistakes. She lied to the director about ...

Bullied Nursing Home Personal Care Attendant  I have recently been a target of workplace 'mobbing'. This isn't the first time I've experienced bullying and I'm at the end of the road.

I'm a Personal ...

Music Director At Church  Hired more than 5 years ago to play instrument, direct choir, now 28 years of experience.

There is an elderly woman also in employment who plays weekly....

Professional Speaker and Trainer  I read lots of stories about workplace bullying and sometimes is appears more like having a 'toxic personality' in the workplace rather than a bully. Bullies ...

Why Do People Bully In The Workplace?  Why do people bully in the workplace?

There is a lot of literature out there devoted to describing the negative consequences of bullying in the workplace....

Staff  Our bully is our human resources director. Over the years, she acquired three titles in addition to being human resources director. (Human resources director ...

Victimized Personalities  "Murphy" the author of this letter cannot seem to escape his tormentors. They are in his past, present, and future. Murphy moves and... out with the old ...

Relentless  I had a workplace bully situation that was very threatening. The bully would follow me around whenever I entered an elevator, escalator or even in the ...

Big, Bad Bullies!  Oh my goodness, have I been bullied before. My one piece of advice to anyone who realize they are being bullied in it's earliest stage is to recognize ...

Sweat and Tears - Is this Deja Vu?  Sweat and Tears

Maria enters the parking lot and parks her car. She has 15 minutes before she has to go to the unit so she reclines her seat and closes ...

Petition Against Workplace Bullying In Higher Education  If you are a UK citizen / resident please sign the petition at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Justice-Bullying/ that reads :

?We the undersigned petition ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...