A bully needs someone who will respond to them either in fear or in submission. They don’t really care which. Heck, getting made at them means they got to you and THEY controlled YOUR behavior.
Don’t allow them to control your behavior.
It takes courage, knowledge, a little bit of science and consistency to get a bully to stop. Doing nothing and hoping things will change doesn’t work.
Bullying isn’t a one off event. It’s a pattern of harassment that involves multiple incidents over a period of time. You can’t report it once and be done with it. You must have a strategy for what you are going to do IF reporting it doesn’t work.
Allison Corr created a wonderful comic called, The Bully – see – http://allisonillustration.tumblr.com/post/93320197050/the-bully-this-comic-i-made-over-a-year-ago-but What’s nice about this comic is that it illustrates the fact, yes fact, that often bullies are …
