Inside The Workplace

Today’s post is an excerpt taken from my book, Alligators in the Water Cooler, A Guide to Identifying Bullies & Their Buddies in the Workplace. You are being emotionally and psychologically beaten up.  Your physical health has been impacted by the stress.  Your life is not your own because the bully has managed to rob you of your [...]

David Yamada in his” Minding the Workplace” blog had this to say regarding the difference between being mobbed or bullied.  I found this article to be very helpful and it  answered the age old question for me, was I bullied or mobbed out of my position at a hospital in So California?  Here’s the article.   [...]

Researchers say, Workplace bullying could cause more harm to employees than sexual harassment. Using belittling comments, exclusion from outings and criticism of work may seem relatively benign and get brushed off by business higher-ups as “kid’s stuff.” But the consequences to employees and even the bottom line are far from child’s play. “Organizations don’t realize [...]

This is an excerpt from a Time Magazine article: Worker abuse is a widespread problem — in a 2007 Zogby poll, 37% of American adults said they had been bullied at work — and most of it is perfectly legal. Workers who are abused based on their membership in a protected class — race, nationality [...]

In this post I will be covering the workplace bully’s behavior and what you can do about it. It’s important to realize that changing a workplace bully is rarely an option. The best way to deal with them and to retain your sanity is to know that ahead of time. It’s like marrying someone with [...]