It’s Not about You
How many times have you been told, that when you are bullied, it’s not about you. Your first thought is – of course it’s about me – it’s happening to me!!!! Well, yeah – but it’s still not about you.
How bad can workplace bullying be?
Check out this story of workplace abuse from Chicago. Back in August 2013 a story broke in Wheaton IL about a city worker who had been bullied for years. Unfortunately …
Don’t use the word bully
When dealing with bullying, the language we use to describe the behavior matters. If you’ve read my book you know that I advocate that we abandon the word “bully.” The …
Bullies aren’t very creative
It turns out that almost all verbal bullying (ie: insults) are about 6 basic things. This means that even though bullies like to insult people, they aren’t very creative in their insults. Perhaps if they watched more Monty Python or read the 7 page curse in Tristram Shandy they would be more creative. Of course, if they did those things, they probably wouldn’t be bullies in the first place.