You are mistaken if you believe that bullies only lurk in school hallways and on playgrounds… Mean kids grow up and become parents, co-workers, and bosses. They work in offices, businesses, for governments, in police departments, law offices, and charitable organizations.
They are cowards who lack the ability to work out problems in a reasoned, adult manner.
They need a fan club of followers and admirers who support their evil deeds, “flying monkeys” to persecute their targets, and/or technology to hide behind.
The adult bully character pathology is characterized by a lack of empathy, craving for power, manipulativeness, and deceptiveness. Bullies feel entitled to use others as they wish and they derive sadistic pleasure from the harm they cause.
Oh, yes. Adult bullies exist as well. The work force is full of them.
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This was so accurate! So beautiful. I love individuals who will kick the hell out of bullies. Yay! Anti bullying! I wish there were more individuals like us. Fighting for harassment to finally end!
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Dear Michael,
I would like to share this information:
1. Useful references about workplace bullying: http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/07bullying.html
http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/00BRjocm.html
2. It could be important to distinguish bullying vs. mobbing:
…” However, “bullying” often implies that one person, the bully, is harassing another person, the target or victim, often with the implication that this is a psychological or interpersonal matter. The term mobbing implies that the harassment is by a group: it is a phenomenon of collective behavior.”…
Yours sincerely,
Jorge
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P.S. Other sources of information which I collected about the topic:
http://chaoticpharmacology.com/2015/01/22/academic-bullying-a-serious-threat-for-free-speech-open-scientific-debate/
http://chaoticpharmacology.com/2015/01/13/about-informing-wrongdoing-i-e-criminal-behavior-by-private-academic-or-governmental-institutions-expect-high-doses-of-bullying-harassment/
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I’m a retired psychiatrist and was bullied in every community mental health clinic I worked at.
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