Say you work in an office of 100 people. Chances are slim that any of them will ever strike you, call you names or sexually assault you. Given the same context of 100 employees, however, it is quite likely that any number of Slam Clubs exist throughout its ranks. Slamming may be more subtle than abuse, but its negative effects can spin an entire corporation into a downward spiral of work poorly done, tasks left unfinished, ideas squelched and profits lost. It is the precise quality of its pervasiveness that makes slamming as large an issue as abuse, yet its dangers are not seen for what they are.
Abusers cause trauma.
Slammers cause unending contention. It is the difference between a sharp pain and a slow burn. The dynamic may be different, but the net result of ugliness between people is the same. Just like abuse, it hurts people. Just like abuse, folks need to know what it is so that it can be stopped.