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  Posted by wecanhelpyou@rocketmail.com Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:24pm PDT

  Go to http://www.urlchop.com/uvw728 . You dont have to work in a hostile place, work at home

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  Posted by crawford8348@sbcglobal.net Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:26pm PDT

  We have a woman in our office in a leadership position who bullies the new hires. They are new and just take it since they are just trying not to rock the boat. When I stood up to her in front of them, she reported me to the manager saying that I hurt her feelings and created a hostile situation in front of the trainees. (they applauded me...she had them scared of her and doing all the work off of her desk so she can come to work and take smoke breaks all day) I explained to the manager what occured and that what I did was correct her on something that she was telling them to do that was wrong. (manager agreed with me) She is, needless to say, still bullying them but she is more subtle about it. They now know that you don't have to take that garbage from anyone on any job. Who wants to work in that type of enviornment...even in this economy?

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  Posted by Mystic Woman Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:49pm PDT

  In Oregon, you can lose your job for no valid reason. Oregon calls itself an "at will state", meaning that they can get rid of an employee without any just cause. This is highly abused thruout the state, as their high unemployment rate shows. People mean nothing to the employer. Oregon has many loopholes that do nothing to protect employees from employer abuses and use their stinking laws to even ignore the Federal laws. Oregon thinks so highly of themselves as a separately governed state they kick their own behinds and create the awful mess their local economy is in . They hire foreign workers and pay them the same wages that Americans get. I personally trained them and was let go. Now the entire crew is foreign in the department I worked in. I was bullied, lied to, insulted,belittled, not given equal opportunity as according to laws, written up and accused of doing something deliberately that was an accident. When I was injured as well as many of my coworkers, we could not tell anyone because the plant manager would verbally bully you with mean remarks and insults and lie and say no one else ever got hurt doing the same work.The 1st aid boxes were located several places around the building and were used continually by everyone on the production floor. Cuts and burns were the most common on a daily basis. The cabinets were the most well stocked I had ever seen anywhere and included a mini over the counter drug assortment. The noxious fumes continually made us all sickwith sinous and bronchial problems. A foreigner was made supervisor and over the last 4 months he has hired only those from his continent. Yesterday heand the plant manager got rid of the only two American production laborers, so now the entire crew is from Russia. To protect themselves from discrimination charges they pulled two American people from another department to work occasionally in my department.This is only the tip of the iceburg of all the unfairness. When overtime was available for Saturdays, the Supervisor would not allow any to the American production workers, at that time this past spring, we had several Americans,like 5 or 6, and about 40 Russians. Since Spring I have seen all the Americans gotten laid off. We need to help our own. My Russian coworkers have enjoyed vacations and visit Russia, as we were allowed a lot of vacation at our company. They have nice homes---some brand new ones and me and our fellow Americans are going without jobs!!!!!! One of my Russian coworkers commented that he thought Americans were so stupid!!!!! I am not the governing power that let the Russians and other foreign people take our jobs !!!!!

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  Posted by c-badgirl Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:18am PDT

  Whats worse about Bullying is when the upper management allow it to go on. I am working right now in an environment where the upper management is aware of the bullying and allowing it to go. The person doing the

  The bullying is a female who up til a few months ago was just a regular

  employee with a nastt dispostion, No one really had to deal with. Then for some unforseen reason she was promoted to position of somewhat importance. No experience mind you in the position at all, only have the

  degree qualifications which none are in the field,nevertheless she was available at the time of an crisis so she became it. Low and behold the bulllying started Day One. It was like she won the Lottery. Management knew in the begin she was unfit but nevertheless they still promoted her and Let her continue to Bully.

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  Posted by ddes Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:33am PDT

  As hard as it may be the best thing to do is confront the BULLY. Life is too short & hard to take crap at work. I've thought about it, and I spend too much time at work to be miserable. I believe many of the after the fact job shootings is simply due to the bully going TOO FAR with no one saying anything. I've chosen the 1 on 1 method of confronting a bully in the past and it worked GREAT!!

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  Posted by Susie Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:08pm PDT

  We have a woman in my department who hasn't even been there all that long who just bosses everyone around and tattles. It's like being in junior high. The poor girl who sits in front of her puts on her headphones and ignores her now. I'm waiting for her to try and tell me what to do and then I'll have to show her she ain't the boss! I can't stand a bully.

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  Posted by linnielou0728 Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:33pm PDT

  I ahve worked in an environment with a bully - in fact there were three of them in a "click", that got their jollies out of berating me! On a daily basis. I went to the management about it, and they did nothing. It finally came down to a confrontation with the meanest one of the bunch and the result was my getting fired. Thank God!! It was a REAL blessing in disguise. I also know that the behaviors and attitudes were their insecurities and not my fault. I am in a great place now, where my boss thinks of me as an equal, not as a doormat. I am treated wit =h the respect I deserve, and it feels great!! It's the same as being in a violent marriage, it only goes on because the victim allows it to. Now that I am away from it I can see that. So do yourself a favor, and find another place to work. Life is too short to be that unhappy!!!

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  Posted by Mysterious Gryphon Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:21am PDT

  You know though, your coworker who takes a lot of sick days to look after her children is, in her own way, taking advantage of those she works with.

  Having children is a choice, and getting a divorce is a choice; being a single mom, therefore, was her choice, and now she expects you and everyone else in your office to pick up what she leaves behind when she goes off to look after little Billy.

  If your single-parent coworker takes an inordinate amount of sickdays, your boss has every reason to speak to her about living within her means in order to hire a nanny or put the kids in daycare (or at least demand that their father step up and watch the kids some days). Don't let her bad decisions lay extra work upon you.

  Indeed, I think that everyone else in the office should be comped a certain number of extra vacation days when a signle parent abuses the system.

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  Posted by grh360 Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:37am PDT

  You would think people would grow up when they get out of school but some don't. There was a person at my work,,could never grow up....his mind in 7th grade still. But if you ignore them the more they try to mess with you. I put him in his place by being adult and knowing what I knew. He made a fool of himself in the end.......the best part was he knew he made a fool out of himself with me pulling the strings.......So, Chalk one up. Its best to do behind the scenes stuff that will make them trip and never recover. Most bullies hate their lives so they try to make it miserable for everyone else. But you can always outsmart, outwit one, they are actually pretty stupid in reality.....

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  Posted by Wonder Woman Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:51am PDT

  Emily Jane, people like you make me sick with your "having children is a choice and I shouldn't have to pick up your slack" nonsense. Most companies give sick days as a benefit for working there. Unless she's using more sick days than she's entitled to there's no problem. Furthermore, you suggest her hiring a nanny! First of all, the average person cannot afford a nanny. Second, if her child is sick it's not the nanny's responsibility to take care of him/her. Remember that choice you mentioned? She has to take care of the kids she brought into the world. Lastly, I've covered many a time for childless people who go gallavanting off around the world. I don't complain. Vacation benefits are for those who work and if you work then you deserve time off. Not only that, it's called teamwork. You fill in for those who are out, and they return the favor.

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