How did you handle your workplace bully?

[Hassaniscool]

[bigpauly]

No one has ever bullied me at work really. In school I just tried to become the witty guy who could make jokes before everyone else.

Here, I’m still trying to figure out how to deal with my gaggle of bullies 🤔

[Blackcupcake]

hello my friend

[bigpauly]

@Blackcupcake oh boy here we go

[Blackcupcake]

what!!! I just said hi😑

[bigpauly]

@Blackcupcake 🧐 ok then, hi 👋

[Blackcupcake]

and say hi to my friends!
@PrettyPriya
@ashleywonders

[bigpauly]

@Blackcupcake ugh lol

[PrettyPriya]

@Blackcupcake 👋 🤏 Pauly

[Blackcupcake]

hihihi😈🤣

[bigpauly]

@PrettyPriya what’s that gesture supposed to mean? 🙄

[PrettyPriya]

I dunno. 😕

[Ashleywonders]

Hello @blackcupcake and @PrettyPriya! Was someone else here or something? *looks right over tiny Paulys head*

[Blackcupcake]

@ashleywonders hahahaa hey!!! yes!! but you have to look down super low to see our peanut sized friend

[Ashleywonders]

@Blackcupcake oh! I may need a magnifying glass!

[WonderBell99]

Ugh. You guys are bullying him here as well? I won't let that happen. Not under my watch!

[PrettyPriya]

@WonderBell99 and here:

Do you have a preference for where you sit on an airplane? ↗

[Blackcupcake]

@ashleywonders I’ll order us some! we might need some back up ones for our growing team as well

[bigpauly]

@WonderBell99 I can’t even keep up!

[WonderBell99]

@bigpauly they are everywhere!😭

[Blackcupcake]

lmfao

[PrettyPriya]

@wonderbell99 you have to admit, the airplane seat was a stroke of brilliance. 🤣

[bigpauly]

@PrettyPriya she probably hasn’t had time to get through all your bs yet 😒

[WonderBell99]

@PrettyPriya I haven’t even seen it yet 😐

[ArrowheadSW]

He saw that I was initiating the termination process and then cleaned up his act pronto. Sometimes there is no dealing with someone without that extreme.

[Hassaniscool]

You the manager

[ArrowheadSW]

I was second in charge at that time. I was initiating the process for his termination upon approval of the manager. He did clean up his act somewhat but he still had some anger problems. There was one incident where he lost his temper with another employee. If the manager had been there at the moment and seen it, he would have got fired. Again that was another wake up call for him after that incident and he realized he had to calm down or be terminated.

[MCheetah]

Busted their nose open and left them on the floor, and promptly got fired for it.

[Avatar74]

I did that once to a guy in college, I was lucky not to be expelled.
I had witnesses that spoke on my behalf to say I was provoked.

[Avatar74]

I have never experienced a work place bully first hand. My course of action would be to confront and hopefully my temper didn't lead me to knock them out.

[Anonymous]

Either confront them, or ignore them.