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.   [...]

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 [...]

Eye rolling, glaring, a nasty comment are just a few of the methods of workplace harrassment. I know, it doesn’t seem like anything very significant, but that’s how it either get’s started or continued. Now the question is, who do you complain to that your boss is ridiculing you? Or, what about that co-worker that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In these first few blog posts I’m going to go into workplaces in general, the types of people that work there and how these differences can work either with you or against you. Dealing with different personalities at work can be one thing but when abusive behaviors take over, you need to take action. In [...]