www.usatoday.com: On the playground, she's mean. She laughs at our lisp and calls our pigtails ugly. She gets a bunch of her friends to stand in our way when we try to climb the jungle gym.
Flash forward 20 years and, finally, we can wear whatever we want and walk confidently down the street.
That is, until 9 a.m., when we skulk past her corner office and pray she doesn't scream at us for making a mistake on our latest project.
The bully is back.
2 comments:
The fact that there is discussions about creating a law that will prevent and/or punish bullying in the work place is absolutely ridiculous. At some point, the people in today's society need to grow up and stop depending on the government to save them from everything. Someone's being mean to you at work? Grow up and deal with it. No one is ever going to go through life only meeting and working with happy, encouraging people. It just won't happen. Just like we were all taught in kindergarten, when someone is bullying you, you need to deal with it. That may mean sucking it up and ignoring them, or that may mean facing them head-on. Either way, it is up to you to make sure you are treated the way you want to be treated. It's not up to the government to make people be nice to you. Where has this generation's common sense and sense of responsibility gone??
I do have to wonder how much of the rise in workplace bullying is due to a greater awareness and thus more people reporting it, rather than any actual rise in bullying. I also think that this article is making a distinction between people just being rude to each other and outright bullying. It seems as though most cases of "bullying" are just people being rude, which is life.
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