Comments on: What You Can Do To Create Your Template for a “Bully Free at Work” Workplace Bullying Policy! http://www.bullyfreeatwork.com/blog/?p=806 Your Ultimate Resource to Stop Workplace Bullying Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:35:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Featured Article for March 9, 2010 « Stop Workplace Bullies…Now! http://www.bullyfreeatwork.com/blog/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-1201 Featured Article for March 9, 2010 « Stop Workplace Bullies…Now! Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:46:13 +0000 http://www.bullyfreeatwork.com/blog/index.php/?p=806#comment-1201 [...] Featured Article for March 9, 2010 March 9, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments What You Can Do To Create Your Template for a “Bully Free at Work” Workplace Bullying Policy! [...] [...] Featured Article for March 9, 2010 March 9, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments What You Can Do To Create Your Template for a “Bully Free at Work” Workplace Bullying Policy! [...]

]]> By: Gina http://www.bullyfreeatwork.com/blog/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-1141 Gina Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:25:05 +0000 http://www.bullyfreeatwork.com/blog/index.php/?p=806#comment-1141 what can i do when the supervisor knows what's going on and she does nothing about it? i am a target of 6 people. they verbally humiliate me, make fun of me, treat me as if i don't exist, they watch my every move, they try to be intimidating. one person starte this and she told the others to do not talk to me. that one person spread it thru out the work place. they always want to know my business so they can criticise and gossip. i didn't go to work fri. feb.5,2010 cause it got to me so bad. i cried after work on thurs. because of all the crap that has been going on for 4yrs..if i do something about it again. it will get even worse than before. no matter what, still get abused. i know the rest of the dept doesn't like me but they do talk to me. i am getting deeper and deeper depressed. i do take 3 medications for this. what can i do when the supervisor knows what’s going on and she does nothing about it? i am a target of 6 people. they verbally humiliate me, make fun of me, treat me as if i don’t exist, they watch my every move, they try to be intimidating. one person starte this and she told the others to do not talk to me. that one person spread it thru out the work place. they always want to know my business so they can criticise and gossip. i didn’t go to work fri. feb.5,2010 cause it got to me so bad. i cried after work on thurs. because of all the crap that has been going on for 4yrs..if i do something about it again. it will get even worse than before. no matter what, still get abused. i know the rest of the dept doesn’t like me but they do talk to me. i am getting deeper and deeper depressed. i do take 3 medications for this.

]]> By: Dana Stone http://www.bullyfreeatwork.com/blog/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-1133 Dana Stone Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:44:04 +0000 http://www.bullyfreeatwork.com/blog/index.php/?p=806#comment-1133 (I felt a need to get some of my angry, sad, frustrated feelings to the surface by writing a poem about my experience.) "The Target" Cringing at the awareness of her hand on my hand stopping me from sending an email. Feeling my heart stop when she prevented me from going to an seminar that would advance my career. Frustration, boredom, disbelief... Over wasting 2 hours for "training," By an unqualified speaker, uncertified... (And the "training" was never put to use because that program was dropped.) Plato... would have never appealed to the students in our alternative school. Degraded, humiliated.... Disrespected, expected... to do the impossible. Long meetings dominated by 3 women all clamoring for recognition just people wanting to hear themselves talk. Lost time with the physical therapist Lost time to take care of myself Feelings of being blocked, inertia.. Memories of her shrill voice... Ridiculed my handicapped car tag... She thought I was just lazy. Saying I didn't do "enough"... Telling me that I'm "in decline"... She was a toxic boss, harsh like the sound of fingernails on a chalk board... belligerant telling lies, spreading rumors I shiver at the sound of her shoes... her shoes padding down the hallway click, shuffle, click (little slip-ons with bows on them) caused dread in me... I should get down on... my knees and thank that God I'm out... I'm out, I'm out, I'm out... and I am not like her. But I must deal with the trauma...and heal, and be happy. This is my goal. (I felt a need to get some of my angry, sad, frustrated feelings to the surface by writing a poem about my experience.)

“The Target”

Cringing at the awareness of her hand
on my hand
stopping me from sending an email.

Feeling my heart stop
when she prevented me from going to an
seminar that would advance my career.

Frustration, boredom, disbelief…
Over wasting 2 hours for “training,”
By an unqualified speaker, uncertified…
(And the “training” was never put to use because that program was dropped.)

Plato…
would have never appealed
to the students in our alternative school.

Degraded, humiliated….
Disrespected, expected…
to do the impossible.
Long meetings
dominated by 3 women
all clamoring for recognition
just people wanting
to hear themselves talk.
Lost time
with the physical therapist
Lost time
to take care of myself
Feelings of being blocked, inertia..
Memories of her shrill voice…
Ridiculed my handicapped car tag…
She thought I was just lazy.
Saying I didn’t do “enough”…
Telling me that I’m “in decline”…

She was a toxic boss,
harsh
like the sound of fingernails on a chalk board…
belligerant
telling lies, spreading rumors

I shiver at
the sound of her shoes…
her shoes
padding
down the hallway
click, shuffle, click
(little slip-ons with bows on them)
caused dread in me…

I should get down on…
my knees and thank that God I’m out…
I’m out, I’m out, I’m out…
and I am not like her.

But I must deal with the trauma…and heal, and be happy. This is my goal.

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