Being Bullied At Workplace

7 Signs of Being Bullied at Workplace

Socializing at workplace can seem quite a challenging task since you are expected to be professional as well as approachable and friendly at the same time. Hence, it can happen that senior authorities exert undue pressure and indulge in unfair activities on junior employees to show their superiority. Termed as bullying, this involves irrational behavior by a person on others and is aimed at hurting the other individual verbally, socially, psychologically or physically to indicate supremacy at the workplace. While the main aim is to prove dominance over the individual being humiliated, the perpetrator can sought help from colleagues and resort to different actions to belittle the target person. Though

For example, other team members of team are getting comparatively additional incentives even if all do the same amount of work. This could be in terms of extra free time, travel allowances or only selected employees are more preferred to handle new projects. You are given no valid reasons when an explanation is demanded.

You feel isolated from meetings

When bullying an employee reaches the highest level in an organization, it might occur that he/she might not be invited to crucial meetings and even excluded from conversations of important business mails. It can also happen that co-workers avoid discussion of work in your presence and keep minimum interaction to not give away clues. Also, you might not be invited for team parties and other events.

Your progress is purposefully unseen

Even if you have been a star performer and have put in all efforts by working overtime to achieve the target before deadline, your seniors are turning a blind eye to all the work done. You might be shifted on a different project which has urgent priority and the work done for previous project goes unnoticed as the progress you had achieved has not been applied by the newly deployed