[acb-hsp] When Bullies Go to Work

[Kevin LaRose]

I've always been hesitant to call what happened to me in the workplace bullying, because there was nothing really physical about it. I was a federal employee, and in the federal workplace, it's always seemed to me that, to clean up an often-used phrase, crap runs downhill. Fear and intimidation are seen by many as valid motivational tools, and that's true probably in any workplace. Nonetheless, I was subject to a lot of both in varying degrees of severity, and when I went to the union for assistance it got much worse. Sadly, the supervisor/employee dynamic lends itself very easily to bullying, particularly that of the psychological kind.
KL


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