Workplace Bullying - Your Experiences

[Perciful]

@Pyper

At first I thought, “I haven’t been bullied since I was an adult,” but then I remembered my experience as a camp counselor when I was eighteen. As counselors, we all had to rotate shifts in the kitchen. The older lady who ran the kitchen was the camp ranger’s wife, and she was an evil, evil bitch. She specifically chose me as a target and would bully me and belittle me every time I stepped into the kitchen.

One day, when I stopped to get oven mitts before picking up a hot pan, she said something like, “Oh, poor widdle Pyper, doesn’t want to hurt her poor widdle fingers.” I put down the pan and walked out of the kitchen. I went straight to the camp director and said I would no longer be working in the kitchens. And I didn’t for the rest of the summer. What were they going to do, fire me? They would be short a counselor in the height of camping season. Also, everybody could clearly see what was going on, I think they were just embarrassed to speak up because of the evil bitch’s position as wife of the ranger.

I think I know this lady! People like this should work alone. Great on standing up and getting a different position and saving your sanity at the same time. You can’t win those types. I call them professional button pushers.

[LurkerInNJ]

I was bullied very badly at a new job, and when I complained I was told “she’s been here over 15 years” and “she always does (insert whatever was happening) to new people”.

I was there about a month before I really couldn’t take it any more and got my coat and left without saying a word.