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Bullying Boss

""A boss that bullies is bad – for you and for the business," says Brian McDermott, of GrowthWorks Inc., a Maple Grove-based training facilitation and consulting company. "You spend 50 to 70 percent of your waking hours at work. The stress of a being managed by a bully can make that time unbearable."

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User: Helpless
Date: 7/4/2005 1:30:00 PM

I had the worst boss in the world, manipulating, controlling, undermining, crazy, threatening which made me an on the edge, fragile person whose relationship broke down to nothing and a gambling addiction, why can't they pay, im now left with the aftermath, trying hard to rebuild my life...somehow....I don't know whether it is worth it....

User: Frustrated
Date: 9/6/2006 1:48:00 PM

Don't let the bad bully get you, you can rise again. I just quit a bully boss who let her assistant manager do all the real managing and unfortunately is was thru beratement in front of customers and tone of voice and constant threat of job loss every day for me. I finally asked is this job mine or not. I was terrified to make mistakes.

User: anonymous
Date: 10/30/2007 2:44:00 PM

I left a bullying/mobbing situation some time ago. It impressed upon me just how biologically aggressive the human race really is. Unless you've been mobbed by your own kind under the most flimsiest of excuses, the attacks really being based on a twisted, nasty need for power and punishment. My being mobbed stemmed from a psycho woman boss who was jealous of me and, I suspect, a closet homosexual. She was aided in part by coworkers lured into her games and won over by her 'charm' and lies. Some of us pretend that we are mostly a civilized nation when in fact we are not; and ignorance only compounds the problem. Strive to work for yourself, or find a place where the management is professional and employee rights are discussed during the interview itself. So many businesses seem to think they own you once you sign up - you want to avoid that feudal-serf mentality. Absolute power corrupts so if there's only one guy in charge, pay special attention to that; also, pay attention to the us-against-them mentality some bosses and their cronies display. Bullies always give off cues and we would-be targets ignore that at our peril.

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