Workplace bullying: my boss is a bully

They usely imploy bullies because they like to boss people around. Hence why they make a good boss.

Thank God I was as a public sector (top) manager with a strong team behind me. Iv'e now retired early at 55( pulled a sicky) and don't have to worry about anything anymore, huge pension,lots of holidays abroad in the sun, nice new luxury car every year, but here's the snag,I really miss the office banter and all those days at the golf club( I should have been in the office really).It really use to upset me when I heard all those poor little people crying they were over worked and stressed but my advice to them then was "If you don't like it, find a job you will be happy in, but until then just get on with it"

I work in a managerially dysfunctional company, a huge multinational. There is a unchecked culture of bullying right down from the top. It's like' a huge British public school with the senior boys fagging and constantly bullying and beating up their juniors. Bullying is fully endemic within this institution.

There are approx 7 layers of management between myself and the man who lives in the billionaire's mansion on the top of the green hill faraway. None of the managers in-between have any real authority. Most of them are useless, serve no purpose. Our firm has one of the lowest income per employee ratios in the industry. It's no wonder: there are huge armies of useless managers in this organization having to be propped up. These managers bully as they have nothing better to do with their time. I guess they measure their comparative perfomance against those of their colleagues, as to how ruthlessly each can "manage" his/her part of the organization.

This is not a real innovative, go-ahead company. It has no real imagination. It's a company waiting to be superseded by another capitalist empire from elsewhere; this will inevitably happen. It's a company living on its past glories. It is a company in total terminal moral decline. I predict it will eventually collapse as all monolithic "empires" do. Even Genghis Khan's empire eventually collapsed.

As I look out of the window, is the sun setting rapidly on this monstrosity?

My manager's boss works in another country, and is complicit in the guilt of bullying, but denies any involvement in it. They refuse any hearing. HR locally is complicit with management locally

Anyone that bullies you at work be it the cleaner, a collegue or the manager needs reporting to hr immediately. If you don't have and hr then go to the bullies manager. Make yourself heard or it will never stop.

if she takes your work more often than not even after the snorty comments, and just once in the meetings, say your points yourself so she doesnot keep feeding onn your good work and getting all the credit to give you a hard time after it all. these people are just trying to eliminate the competition

Our boss has been complaining about a huge backlog in our work. He asked for suggestions. I sent him a 15 point memo explaining why there was a backlog, and what was need to be done to address it.

To my utter surprise he simply rejected every single proposal I made.

And then turned round to everyone saying he expected everyone to work harder to overcome the backlog, even though half the outstanding tasks had no value or added no value to the business and were bureaucratic in nature.

She is jealous of you. Ignore her, put a smile on your face and what ever you do, do not let her know that what she does or says bothers you. Been there, done that. You will outlast her.

Sorry to hear that you are being treated this way, there are many things that you can do: the first is to 'name' the behaviours and politely ask her to stop the behaviours. You could talk to your HR or personnel people, union rep or an external professional. Keep a confidential record of all the events: dates, times etc. If the behaviours continue, then you may have to make your complaints formal or leave.

GOW If a misunderstanding is the worst that happens to me today I will be more than pleased, it lead to a lively exchange of views, Petra was great wasn’t she? "All’s well that ends well"

Boblet, I apologise if I was wrongly casting aspersions. Although there was this, posted by you on the "Amazon Negative Feedback removed" gripe; "People get annoyed by something they cannot understand such as turnips."

You see, it's that word "cannot". It implies that MikeP would not understand the reference even if he was familiar with Blackadder. Maybe you should have said "do not" instead.

I did not have time yesterday to trawl back through other gripes; but I do remember it being Petra who first introduced Baldrick and turnips, I just didn't include that yesterday. My time on here is a bit limited at the moment.

Well in petra, humour is a subtle thing, but believe me a bully withers in the light of a smile, I wish you well, the subject is a complex one that has no single answer.

Yes, it was I and not Boblet who started the Blackadder thing, on another thread.

I won’t say exactly how it came about because I was having a little disagreement with Mike P and said I would let it go if he would, so I won’t rehash it now, but the Baldrick references came about because I said he had a “cunning plan”. It was meant to be light hearted and was taken up by Boblet and, I think, others.

Regarding the subject of this thread; bullies usually back down when challenged but anyone who thinks that they all, without exception, are cowards who will collapse if you stand up to them is wrong.

are a girl that's a bit rough "Goblet" its only a laugh though aint it?.

To Mikep and goblet thank you for entertaining this girl lol

Fair do's mikep I will put you on the back burner, be good. Don Diego

In fairness to Boblet, whose rantings still make little sense to me, I have to say that he is right, it was someone called Petra (I think) who originally introduced the drivel about turnips and blessing and Baldrick.

I have no idea what Mrs. Miggins' crack has to do with this either.

Thank you, GOW, for the clarification. I have heard of the series Blackadder, have watched an episode or two years ago, found it quite unaligned with my sense of humour, so don't know much about it.

Boblet, I have one thing to say to you : Trying to debate anything sensibly with you is a waste of my time and yours, so it's 'over and out'.

Well GOW how wrong you are it was brought up by another poster that mikep was bullying at the time. Maybe she will see this post & confirm that fact or Mikep will confirm her reference to the lowly turnip & her blessings. I have never referred in any post to a person’s intelligence. I defy you to give me an example. When I have an itch I scratch it. I realise that some of my means are obscure. I apologise to you Mr Hicks, but to explain spoils the potency. Mrs Miggins knows the crack.

MikeP, I think the turnip thing started off as a reference to a tv comedy called "Blackadder". It was very funny, but if you don't spend much time in England and have never seen it then you obviously wouldn't know what the reference means.

Boblet seems to equate never having seen "Blackadder" with a lack of intelligence; personally I can't see any logic there myself!

Boblet, as another poster has pointed out, your ramblings are barely coherent, and you clearly have a problem comprehending English.

I don't require 'the other party to change' as you put it, in fact you're asking me to change and I've said I won't. Why does that make me a 'bully'?

You are a waste of space, you ramble on about blessings and turnips and I've no idea what you're trying to convey, if anything. Is your medication wearing off?