Workplace bullying/harassment casts a shadow over the victim that does not go ever go away. Everything in life is experienced in terms of before and after the bullying experience. It is a permanent stamp forced on the victim. Unless you are interested or even willing to get down into the dirt with the bullies and use the worst profanity and threats and insults and such, you will be completely damaged; very probably even if you do go there with them and play the game fighting back.

Victims would most all rather not even be taken there. We are interested in working and accomplishing goals and having dignity and happiness. We don’t want to have this terrible and horrific experience tatood on the fabric of our being until death.

It’s strange, we teach our children and even adults to walk away from confrontation, or if you see trouble to cross the street. What do we do when we cross the street and even pick up the pace and it follows and catches up with us and nobody will help us evade it. HR does nothing and laws say that human emotional health is able to handle constant blows and chipping away without consequence. We know that this is not true. Emotional health is wired into our very being. We can turn away and try and block out traumatic events such as confrontation and harassment but it will catch up with us and is ever-present.

I hope we all as a society get a clue and lawmakers support citizens.