Archive for the ‘Bullying in the News’ Category
Horrible Bosses
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Read the digital copy of VIVmag, including an article on workplace bullying by Laurie Tarkan. Click on the picture below.
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Mass shooting: Can adults be bullied?
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
This was the rather glib connection made by Los Angeles-based NPR radio host, Patt Morrison for her April 3 show about the Oakland, CA massacre of seven students by a 43-y.o. former student on April 2. It seems the shooter, who did not commit suicide but turned himself in, excused his decision on being “bullied” at school for his Korean accent – this in a school comprised of completely Korean students. This was a man looking for an excuse. Here’s the audio from the show.
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Note: WBI believes bullied targets commit murder only if they are bullied for years and frustrated by institutional representatives who ignored their genuine pleas for relief from abusive conduct. It must be said that bullied targets seem more likely to commit suicide in silence and disappear from situations without anyone ever hearing those pleas.
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How you can fight back against age-based bullying on the job – AARP
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
By Diane Cadrain
AARP
“Stupid old woman.”
“Too old to keep up.”
“You should just retire.”
Taunts like these, aimed at the growing number of employees over age 50, are coming from bullies in the workplace. It may be the boss, it may be a coworker or even a customer who’s hurling the invective.
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Adults Can Be Bullies, Too
Friday, March 30th, 2012
Read the accompanying online article here.
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The Namies discuss workplace bullying on Seattle TV
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
New Day Northwest show host Margaret Larson discusses workplace bullying on KING-TV, Seattle on March 22, 2012 with Dr. Ruth Namie and Dr. Gary Namie, founders of the Bellingham, WA-based Workplace Bullying Institute.
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The Hook: Bully buster? VQR spurs UVA launch of ‘respectful workplace’
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
This is a Kevin Morrissey suicide story update. The Hook’s investigative reporter, David McNair, reports on the launch of the University of Virginia’s respectful workplace policy and program. Here are my thoughts.
Tags: Kevin Morrissey, policy, respectful workplace, Ted Genoways, Teresa Sullivan, University of Virginia, VQR, workplace bullying
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U takes on workplace bullying: Faculty and staff are learning how to recognize and address bullying.
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
By Meghan O’Connor
Minnesota Daily
March 08, 2012
Employers nationwide increasingly have had to implement policies to handle concerns beyond typical workplace dilemmas –– or what’s now called workplace bullying.
This week, the University of Minnesota’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action held a session about the issue to ensure staff and faculty know how to recognize and address it.
The University’s Office of Human Resources defines bullying as an imbalance of power and the intent to cause harm and repetition. It is not outlined in Minnesota state laws like harassment or discrimination.
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When bullies go to work
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
The hidden epidemic of workplace mistreatment affects over a third of workers — and is hurting us all
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Wednesday, Mar 7 2012
Salon.com
My friend Dennis* remembers the exact moment he knew he’d had enough. Enough of the “nonstop nagging and ostracizing and accusing” that had become his weekday routine. He was standing on the platform of the subway station at Union Square, leaning out toward the tracks to see if the train was approaching. “And I thought, if I don’t pull back, if I stay here like this, so many problems will be solved.” Dennis’ tormenter? Not a schoolyard thug shaking him down for lunch money, but a high-ranking executive in one of the largest financial institutions in the country. When the mean kids of your childhood grow up, they don’t all evolve into self-aware, contrite adults. Sometimes, they just move from the playground to the corner office.
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Shots In The Dark: “Murder By Proxy” Takes On The History Of Workplace Violence
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Arturo Garcia
AlterNet
March 4, 2012
How bad labor practices led to “going postal.”
At one point in his documentary Murder By Proxy, director Emil Chiaberi attempts to advance the theory that school shootings like the one this week in Chardon, Ohio, have roots dating back much further than just the Columbine massacre of 1999. In revisiting some of the workplace shootings that inspired the term “going postal” during the 1980s, Chiaberi argues that each set of killings was spurred on by similar motives – most specifically institutionalized harassment and alienation of “undesirables.”
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Smell the Coffee: Bullied at work
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Karin Fuller
WV Gazette-Mail
March 3rd
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Back in February of last year, South Charleston Middle School’s Tolerance Club put on an emotional assembly that focused on what can happen when bullying reaches the level where the victim commits suicide. It’s something that’s become so prevalent among teenagers a new term has been coined to more aptly describe it: bullycide.
Even though bullying is hardly new, technology has enabled the ugliness to reach new levels of cruelty. Embarrassing photographs and videos enter cyberspace at warp speed. Gossip no longer depends on whispers and phone calls to spread now that it has reply all.
The sad part is that bullying doesn’t end with the distribution of diplomas. (more…)
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