# What exactly does being "mobbed" at work imply?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 23, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-does-being-mobbed-at-work-imply/530176 "2010-02-23T21:36:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-does-being-mobbed-at-work-imply/530176/41 "2013-06-10T17:16:30Z")

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> [@obfusciatrist](#):
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> To me, if I said “I’ve been mobbed at work” I’d simply mean overworked and it was starting to pile up (the work is “mobbing” me, not the people).

Yep, that is exactly what it means.

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**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-does-being-mobbed-at-work-imply/530176/42 "2013-06-10T17:19:14Z")

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> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#):
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> Called your bank? Told not to do it again?
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> I’m confused…what does your bank have to do with a reprimand at work? (Only if you care to elaborate, of course; I understand if you don’t. Seeing as it’s a zombie thread I won’t hold my breath either way.)
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Count me as confused too.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_I\_Am](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Sam\_I\_Am](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_I_Am)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-does-being-mobbed-at-work-imply/530176/43 "2013-06-10T17:51:03Z")

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I have a friend whose workplace contains a group of women known generally as “the bitches”. They systematically choose one person to be THE ENEMY and make their life hell. I would guess it’s that sort of thing that the article refers to.

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-does-being-mobbed-at-work-imply/530176/44 "2013-06-10T18:30:22Z")

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> [@sandra\_nz](#):
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> My take on it is that the person was reprimanded for making a personal call (to their bank) during work hours.

Makes sense now. I missed where Nibbor said they _had_ called the bank, undoubtedly just prior and leading to getting called down.

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**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-does-being-mobbed-at-work-imply/530176/45 "2013-06-10T18:51:16Z")

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Since a “mob” is a gathering of kangaroos, I’d hope it meant that a bunch of kangaroos barged into the workplace and surrounded the worker, who may have gotten a bit scuffed up in the incident, but not seriously harmed.  
I can’t be the only one thinking this.

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