The school playground isn't the only place you might find a bully. They could be at your own workplace. A workplace bully needs to control people, and might make inappropriate comments about others while at work. Signs of a bully on the job include: makes your life difficult at work, threatens or harrasses you, and even takes credit for the work of others.
Verbal, nonverbal, psychological and humiliation are forms of bullying withough using physical force. Experts also say don't let a workplace bully isolate you from other work colleagues. You should still keep your work friendships.
Counselor Lee Martin says bullies that prey on employees aren't difficult to spot.
" Anytime somebody has another agenda, and some of those characteristics that person might have might be somewhat of a superiority complex. Thinking that they can control other people, that other people are inferior to them."
Statistics say that just under 50% of american workers have either been bullied themselves, or have witnessed a coworker being bullied.
"Once you see an angry person you realize that probably behind that is some fear that they have and I think to learn to operate from that standpoint. You can really set some boundaries for yourself communicate to that person that this isn't appropriate." Martin says.
