Dealing with Bullies in the Workplace

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Most people think of bullying as occurring between children in school. While this type of
bullying is the most common, it is possible, however, for bullying to occur between
adults in the workplace. Just like in the schoolyard, there are many different reasons
why adults bully each other and many different types of bullies.

Sometimes an adult bully will act out because they are under stress. They may not even
intend to target others at first, but because of stressors in the workplace, they begin
targeting others to take their stress out on. These types of adult bulli
es will usually realize what they are doing and stop after the trigger event subsides.

Many times, an adult bully will target a person who is in a position of authority.
Sometimes employees will target their boss. In some cases, employees will be bullied
by the people they are serving. Most commonly, this occurs in nursing and in schools.
Patients and students will relentlessly target the people trying to help them for a variety
of reasons.