According to Bench & Bar, the Minnesota State Bar Association’s publication, 37 percent of workers in the U.S. have been bullied, making on-the-job bullying four times as common as sexual harrassment. And employees have successfully taken their employers to court over this. The publication discusses the anti-bullying legislative movement, and Katherine Kersten asks if Minnesota is ready for such legislation.
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8 Reader Comments
4:45 am
As usual, KK either has no clue what she’s talking about or realizes that she has little to stand on and purposely misrepresents it so she can look like a sensible, no-nonsense genius when she tears it apart.
I don’t think I’ve been bullied by bosses… or at least not in any way like how I was bullied as a kid.
However I’ve definitely been treated like shit and had things that were illegal happen. Retail/low-paying office work sucks and attracts the worst people possible who have no respect for you because you are disposable. (And this is why I’ve scared myself straight into going back to school to get a degree.)
7:37 am
37% sounds like one of those pulled-from-my-butt numbers. Please define “bullied” in a workplace context. Salespeople are bullied all the time, to make their numbers, but that’s part of the job description. The uber-sensitive types would believe bullying to be anything disagreeable, e.g. having their work corrected.
9:35 am
i work with a bully. he’s hovering over me right now.
9:57 am
It seems like a broad term. How is bullying different from (nonsexual) harassment?
10:01 am
i work with a comically huge bully. i’ve made it quite clear that i know enough about him that he’s unwilling to f*ck with me. a friendly arrangement born of mutually assured destruction can be a good thing.
10:06 am
Good god, this is ridiculous.
I wish she would cite some of the ’successful’ lawsuits against ‘bully bosses’, because the scenario she describes in the opening of the article does not sound like bullying. Poorer performers will often take the brunt of criticism, especially when the guy in charge is the guy who hears it from upper managaement about the poor performers under his management.
10:07 am
Ok, I see some cases cited in the bench and bar article.
10:46 am
I had cause to research workplace bullying a few years ago. Bullys aren’t just jerks who treat everyone like crap, bully’s target a victim and then try to use the staff they oversee to go after this person. A Bully will usually choose a victim who he secretly suspects has more skills and talents then he does. He’ll choose a victim he knows has too much integrity to treat him the way he’s been treating the victim. Staff members under his supervision become fearful that if they don’t go along with the bully (or at least condone his behavior by their silent acceptance of it) they will be the next victim of his cruel treatment. The bully will back off the victim just long enough to make that person think that everything has gotten better between the two of them, then he’ll strike again. It is total mental abuse.