Remember Remember
November 7th is amost upon us,and we would like to remind you that it is BAN BULLYING AT WORK DAY.This gives employees everywhere an opportunity to reflect on what they have seen or experienced with regards to bullying.
As you know we at Pilton Sucks are actively campaigning for an end to bullying in the workplace,and will continue to do so.
You will have read the torment suffered by the Muirhouse Two at the hands of a serial bully,torment which has not come to an end and will not until the bully is caught and punished. You will also have read how bullying is covered up to avoid having to do something about it,and so is allowed to flourish unchecked with the resulting suffering of victims.
Along with the Andrea Adams trust and others we want to highlight the pain,suffering and subcequent ill health which bullying causes.Bullys always know what they are,but are convinced by some warped mentality,they are right and everyone else is wrong.
This is classic bullying syndrom experienced by the Muirhouse Two and others who have unfortuatly fallen victim to workplace bullying.
Those who have witnessed bullying in the workplace have a moral duty to come forward and tell what they seen. No-one is safe from the clutches of a bully and once their target is no-more they will move on to another. Oh of course it wont be right away,that would be giving the game away. But such is the high opinion they hold themselves in,it will not be long before another victim is chosen.
The bully is a predator,and needs victims to satisfy his craven need for power. Usually an inadequate person,the bully needs to force his opinion on others and because he is not capable of reasoning,without getting angry,his obvious port of call will be to return to his tried and tested method,bullying the person into submission.
It is clear from research carried out that the bully is usually known to others,but the attitude is taken that if they do not have to work with him they will not suffer.That is a mistaken ideal,for the virus of the bully can spread into other departments,causing staff to take stock and realise that this character truely is a bully,and must be stopped.
People who have witnesed bullying or have had to treat the effects bullying has on a person will know the utter horror which the victim has had to live with.and what he is going through.
It is abudantly clear we are all potential victims of bullying in the workplace either directly or indirectly,possibly as a victim or as part of a cover up,either way suffering is amplified if nothing is done to flush the bully out into the open where he can clearly be identified as a workplace criminal.
So as you go about your daily business on November 7th remember,remember the victims who you know, the victims who continue to suffer,the destruction of one person by another. And remember if you can do something about do so,come forward speak up.
Cowardice asks the question is it safe? Expediency asks the question is it politic?Vanity asks the question is it popular? But conscience asks the question is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular,but you must take it because your conscience tells you it is right.
REPORT THE BULLY.