Rest assured you won’t be the only one to notice her childish behavior.Bullying is an aggressive behavior among school-aged children. So act your age, behave professionally-and let your bully lie in the bed she’s made. After all, the only thing worse than a bully is a bully-convert. Yes, you’re an adult now, but it’s okay to tattle when a co-worker is clearly incapable of behaving like a grown-up.įinally, regardless of the type of bully you’re dealing with, there are several important high school lessons that should stay with you: Take the high road. If someone’s behavior is repeatedly out of line, don’t waste your time and energy combatting it on your own. Situations like these are best handled by the professionals. And unlike the previous two bully-types, who can be talked down from their high horses, this one just won’t budge.
They may bring up your private life, write you insulting emails with foul language, or gossip about you with your co-workers. They use outright, in-your-face threats, they raise their voices to a level that’s far beyond “passionate,” and they turn arguments into personal character assassinations. To thrive in your office, identify these three types of workplace bullies and learn how to respond to their assaults. Now that you’re an adult, identifying malicious behavior and responding to it professionally will not only deter the perpetrator, but will show your colleagues (and higher-ups) that you’re the mature woman you wished you could be as a teen. But unlike high school, you don’t have to put up with them for the sake of looking cool.
Like the high school bullies of days past, adult bullies use intimidation, public humiliation, and underhanded insults to manipulate those around them. And while you probably won’t wind up trapped in a locker, listening to your own breathing as you silently compare your current enclosure to a coffin, it’s entirely possible that you’ll face another bully in your lifetime: the Workplace Bully. I’d like to tell you that bullying is an exclusively adolescent problem, to assure you that you’ll never again find yourself rushing to the ladies’ room, hoping you can hold back the tears (or the profanity) until you’re safely behind a stall door.
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