Workplace Bullying and Harrassment

Definition:

Workplace bullying can be any of the following:

• Shouting at someone whether in private, in font of colleagues, or in front of other people
• Name-calling
• Belittling and making someone feel unimportant
• Being treated with disrespect
• Excessive monitoring
• Constant nitpicking/criticising/flying off the handle especially over trivial or minor matters or mistakes
• Making someone feel bad and ashamed
• Deliberately overloading someone with work
• Undermining someone such as setting them up to fail
• Purposefully withholding information which is needed for the person to do their job efficiently
• Excluding someone from normal workplace/staffroom conversations and making someone feel unwelcome (this also includes cliques)

You know you've been bullied at work when.....

• You feel like throwing up the night before the start of your work week
• Your frustrated family demands that you stop obsessing about work at home
• Your blood pressure and health problems tell you to change jobs
• You feel ashamed of being controlled by another person at work
• All your time off is used for "mental health breaks" from the misery
• Your favorite activities and fun with family are no longer appealing or enjoyable
• You begin to believe you provoked the workplace cruelty

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Information taken from workplace bullying.org