Most workplaces carry a certain amount of stress with them where tempers can sometimes flair and feelings can sometimes be hurt but that is only one type of workplace verbal abuse and usually only happens Sporadically. This is being written about a consistent form of workplace verbal abuse that is used as a measured type of bullying and harassment that goes on to undermine a person’s confidence and reliability at work.

As a general rule, verbal abuse in the workplace is done by a supervisor or higher up in the company and stems from being a disciplinarian that has then escalated to consistent verbal abuse of the people under his authority.

This is not to say that the authority figure will always be the one that uses workplace verbal abuse to control their target by denigrating and belittling them. Co-workers can also be responsible for verbally abusing their counterparts and do it as a controlling measure to make the target feel lower in stature than the other workers in their departments.

The apparent reasoning for this workplace verbal abuse is generally all over the map, from the controlling boss wanting to keep his workers in a subservient role to a jealous co-worker wanting to earn points with the boss.

The actual reasons behind the verbal abuse in your workplace are not as important as what can be done about it. Besides just going to the abuser’s supervisor and complaining loudly, you should be keeping a record of these verbal assaults on you every time you are subjected to it.

Then if you should end up being terminated or suspended because of your inability to give the company your most productive work, you will have evidence of abuse and an extremely good reason for the poor performance if the verbal abuse is what is actually causing it.

This type of workplace bullying can be the reason behind many health issues that you might be experiencing too so get regular checkups with your doctor and let him know that you are under an extreme amount of stress caused by being verbally abused at work. The bottom line here is to document everything so it will be on record should you need it.

Try to reason it all out. Why are you being verbally abused and is it because of something you did to the abuser that is causing it or is it just the way they are. If it’s just the way they are then a lot can be done to bring pressure on them to stop but you need documentation of the abuse simply to prove that it is going on and is beyond being reasonable discipline, so prepare yourself first and you will have a much greater chance of stopping it forever.