Posted on 06/07/2013 10:43:39 AM PDT by Sopater
In other words, some little collectivist twerp college professor is defining self-confidence, leadership, competence, and ambition as “bullying”.
Just the name “Quality Digest” said it all for me...and I stopped right there.
Nearly every workplace has, at any given time, the 20% to 40% lazy and/or incompetent twits that you have to arm-twist to get anything at all in the way of work product.
Is *that* what they call “bullying”? I guess I’m a bully then.
Not necessarily. I was bullied at work by a co-worker who was put into an unofficial supervisory position by our manager. He would constantly accuse me of coming into work drunk until one day I’d finally had and marched his ass down to our managers office. I told them both we can all go to the nearest hospital where I would submit to a blood test and if I passed I would sue both of them so hard their ancestors would feel it.
Never heard a peep out of him again. I now work under a new manager as well (they buttwipes never last in high tech).
It's simply the next phase of neutering males. It will start in childhood where boys will learn that if they ever try assert themselves or argue a point they are quickly labeled a "bully". By the time they make it into the working world, they will be submissive doormats to whatever feminist boss they work for.
Mainly because a punch in the nose is not permitted anymore!
“...at a mental health organization....”
I don’t know if those employees would be a representative sample of the population. Moreover, a non-profit bureacracy is more likely to be dominated by politics than a for-profit business.
I don’t think I saw “bullying” defined.
After years and years of him bullying people, mainly women, he was finally laid off and when it happened all the women he had abused stood at the top of the stairs and hooted and clapped and literally jumped up and down as he left the building. These women were basically useless the rest of the day, they could not contain their excitement and relief. Their euphoria went on for days, the whole atmosphere of the building changed.
The crusade against bullying is a thinly veiled attack on maleness and its attendant behaviors.
Great post,...ahem...can I just call you 65?
Bullying = Assign a specific person a task, with a suspense, and hold them accountable??
re: In other words, some little collectivist twerp college professor is defining self-confidence, leadership, competence, and ambition as bullying
Perhaps. But in my experiences I have seen employees whom I would categorize as bullies who continue to succeed, despite the fact that they are often very lazy, take credit for others’ work, and are even downright incompetent. They will play the “race card” or the “disability card” or the “woman card” or any other politically correct card. I have been shocked to see these very same people get promoted to positions of higher authority.
I think that if you look at how Obama got to where he go to, he used the bullying technique time and time again.
I found assholes usually moved up the ranks faster as other assholes brought them up so they could all work together as assholes. Mod: You can quote me on that! Merck, American Home products and Novartis. Especially Novartis!
I am sick and tired of the term “bullying”. Just because you are stupid and it comes out in your work... and I have to call you out on it to cover my own rear doesn’t make you a victim.
Hi boss, didn’t know you were on FR also! (And my arm still hurts)
After reading the first paragraph, Donald Trump came to mind. ;-)
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