Freedom Week: What can Bullied Targets do?

Make this the time to break your silence.

• Tell co-workers, friends, and family. Ask for help.
• Put your health first. Read the voluminous research on health harm related to unremitting exposure to stress from bullying.
• Schedule a coaching appointment with the WBI mental health professional who understands bullying.
• Talk to an attorney for one hour to see if you have any legal recourse.
• Refuse to believe the lies told about you and the shameful way you have been abandoned. It is not about you; it’s the perpetrator’s need to control others.
• Commit to either finding a new job or planning a fight-back strategy (involving co-workers, unions, the more rational executives) to reclaim your dignity. Everyone should be entitled to work without interference and assaults to her or his integrity.
• If you are mad as hell, call your state senator and state representative to ask them to sponsor the Healthy Workplace Bill.
• Ask your city mayor or city council to proclaim Freedom Week to draw attention to workplace bullying.

Freedom from Workplace Bullies Week sponsored by the Workplace Bullying Institute, is a chance to break through the shame & silence surrounding bullying. It is a week to be daring & bold. Here are different ways to celebrate Freedom Week:

• See what’s being done in your state
• Get anti-bullying buttons, t-shirts and more
• Join the activities on Facebook
• Learn more about workplace bullying