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 [...]

The following article is one I wrote  about 7 years ago for the Upstate Business Journal in Chico, CA and I feel the information is still pertinent in todays workplace.    It doesn’t  focus on bullying in particular, but it does give some insight as to what you might do to recognize someone who could or is a bully.  I [...]

In this post, I’m going to share with you some things you can do to start healing yourself from being bullied. As with any traumatic situation, we all experience a loss of some sort. In most cases we experience loss of self- respect, and the ability to work as before in a secure environment without [...]

In this post I’d like to start from the beginning which is the actual job interview process. In the interview process there are a few things I’d like to point out that may help you avoid accepting a position with a company that has problems with workplace intimidation. If you’ve ever worked for a place [...]

People in the workplace that are being targeted by an abusive boss or co-worker have been taken from what they believed was an orderly world into a state of chaos where many of the former ways of doing their jobs, which they thought were right, are no longer valid. This confusion may make them question [...]