A helpful and very informative web site is bullybusters.org , which gives information on how to combat these bullies and is helping to organize a campaign against workplace bullies. It would have been helpful to have discovered this site before I had to leave my job and suffer such agony. Emotional Abuse in the American Worplace, written by Noa Davenport describes a common and very damaging form of bullying called mobbing or group bullying. How to Predict, Resist, Challenge and Combat Workplace Bullying . He was a victim himself and details the type of people who are the bullies, what brings about their malevolent behavior and how they can be dealt with.
Most organizations have a serial bully.
It never ceases to amaze me how one persons divisive dysfunctional behavior can permeate the entire organization like a cancer. I wish all you working people good luck, God knows I need it. Just remember you are not alone, and not at fault. It is the bully showing their weakness and inadequacies. Hopefully, someday workplace bullying will not be so accepted and we can all sit back, breathe a sign of relief, and show the world what a good job we can do.