Bullies at the workplace, how do you deal?

[Henrywrites]

Going to work and returning daily is never an easy task. When it comes to work relationship in order to achieve the organizational goals, how would you say you handle bullies at work?

 

[Cory]

Thankfully, I haven't dealt with a whole lot of bullies at work. The school was a whole different story, though. As for work, thankfully I worked in large retail stores and I could easily avoid people that way. I think in school, I dealt with more male bullies and as an adult, I dealt with more female bullies.

 

[Strawberry]

I think it's really important to raise these issues with your manager and/or HR, potentially put a grievance in. Going to work where you feel anxious or uncomfortable is just very detrimental to your mental health and your overall performance in the role, so there's no reason to suffer in silence. As a people manager myself, I make myself very available and my colleagues know they can approach me regarding any issues like this.

 

[Tracy]

In my 1.5 decades at an LEO, I ran across this several times... and I had NO issues reporting them to admin for the start of an internal affairs investigation. I had a REAL problem with an LEO (with the amount of power they are granted) abusing it. To me, those that did were sacks of crap and needed to be kicked to the curb. I was NOT a "big believer" in the thin blue line, but I WAS a big believer in honorable service. We are ALL humans and subject to making mistakes... those mistakes should not be punished, but corrected for future responses... but there was that small segment that got into law enforcement (and amazingly, many from the military) that could not get over the "I rule over you" attitude.

This is one of the reasons I take MANY of the fairy tales that come out of LEO confrontations with a LARGE grain of salt... and the pity is, like I said, I pushed the badge for 15 years.

 

[Cory]

I think it's really important to raise these issues with your manager and/or HR

One guy at my old place of work said F-you like 20 times in a row to my face and I told the manager and the next day he called me the P-word. I didn't tell them after that, but he did stop after he called me that. He ended up being fired eventually, anywho.