Being part of the workforce is something all of us will experience at one point of our lives. It can happen anywhere such as working for your grandfather at his woodshop, to being a part of a huge fortune 500 company. With work that the company provides you with comes a downside, workplace bullying. Which is “the unethical and unfavorable treatment of one or more persons by the others in the workplace” (McCornack, pg A-17). This can include almost any negative behavior from you or your coworkers, from verbal to physical injury, sometimes even reaching the heights of using the internet to cause harm known as Cyberbullying. For myself, I have been a part of the mistreated and the offender parties.
One of the most memorable times I have encountered workplace bullying was in the military, as obvious as that might seem to some people this was definitely not normal hazing. When I finally joined my first assigned command unit, I was greeted with warm smiles and courteous words. This should have been my first sign of trouble, but I was too naïve. Within the first hour of being assigned to my workshop I went from being treated like a guest to being …show more content…
I have both suffered and inflicted multiple forms of bullying in a workplace. The first would be isolation, you are cut off from the rest of the command and are not allowed to talk to anyone outside your immediate supervisors. Then comes the constraint of professional responsibilities, the trainee was only assigned same repetitive tasks that held little to no value. During all of it verbal abuse would be constant, being ridiculed and insulted for not being fully qualified was a daily routine. Somedays the bullying was unique, some things I cannot say but it was not pleasurable, and the closest thing that I can describe it as is the destruction of professional reputation, because it devalued your standing within the rest of the
One of the most memorable times I have encountered workplace bullying was in the military, as obvious as that might seem to some people this was definitely not normal hazing. When I finally joined my first assigned command unit, I was greeted with warm smiles and courteous words. This should have been my first sign of trouble, but I was too naïve. Within the first hour of being assigned to my workshop I went from being treated like a guest to being …show more content…
I have both suffered and inflicted multiple forms of bullying in a workplace. The first would be isolation, you are cut off from the rest of the command and are not allowed to talk to anyone outside your immediate supervisors. Then comes the constraint of professional responsibilities, the trainee was only assigned same repetitive tasks that held little to no value. During all of it verbal abuse would be constant, being ridiculed and insulted for not being fully qualified was a daily routine. Somedays the bullying was unique, some things I cannot say but it was not pleasurable, and the closest thing that I can describe it as is the destruction of professional reputation, because it devalued your standing within the rest of the