Bullying Facts
True or False: Bullying in the workplace is often used to intimidate and control another individual, whether a co-worker, employee, or supervisor.
True
This kind of bully has to always talk over the target(s).
Yellers (another similar word is acceptable)
True or False: A supervisor can claim a student worker's work as their own.
False. This is a type of bullying when a supervisor sabotages an employee’s work or claims it as his own.
True or False: You should keep good records by detailing the pattern of bullying.
True: Encourage the employee to keep good records by detailing the pattern of bullying.
True or False: Bullying tactics can often be degrading, humiliating, insulting, affronting and intimidating.
True
This type is great for slamming or trying to destroy the good work product of the target. He/she will also seek to undermine the reputation of the target as well.
Blockers (another similar word is acceptable)
True or False: Being bullied outside of work by another student worker that you work with is not something that a supervisor can help you with.
False.
True or False: You should wait until the bullying is out of hand to tell a supervisor.
False. You should tell your supervisor immediately. It is to be reported immediately if an individual feels he/she is being bullied, regardless of who the alleged perpetrator is.
True or False: Certain types of bullying are acceptable.
False. Bullying is never acceptable and can be a very traumatic experience for the target.
This classic office bully works in the shadows spreading ugly rumors and gossip about the target.
Backstabbers (another similar word is acceptable)
True or False: Receiving a workload that is impossible, has an unreasonable workload or deadline is a type of bullying?
True: Over-delegating or giving impossible or unreasonable workloads. Overloading employees, setting unreasonable deadlines, and requiring extra hours of work beyond full-time, without additional pay. NOTE: if the average wage because of this added requirement dips below Federal Minimum Wage, legal action is allowed.
True or False: The employee could lose credibility if their complaint is fraught with emotion.
True.
True or False: There is no clear definition of what workplace bullying is because there are no laws in place
True.
This bully loves to find fault with everything the target does, no matter how trivial, and will find something wrong with whatever the target suggests.
Nitpickers (another similar word is acceptable)
True or False: If you do not target someone directly by gossiping about them or making a joke about them, it is not a form of bullying.
False. Being the target of gossip or rumors, yelling, personal name calling, joking or making insults based on race, gender, disability, national origin directly or indirectly is a form of bullying.
True or False: You should save texts, social media posts, and other documents that prove someone has been bullying you.
True. Always show these to your supervisor.
True or False: Bullying typically is not difficult to distinguish from other behaviors such as retaliation, sexual and racial harassment.
False: Bullying can be hard to distinguish from other behaviors such as retaliation, sexual and racial harassment.
Using the Internet, a smartphone, or other technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person, it is cyberbullying. If an adult is involved in the harassment, it is called cyber-harassment or cyberstalking.
Cyberbuller (another similar word is acceptable)
False. When employees or supervisors are aware of workplace bullying and do nothing to correct it they share in the negative consequences.
True or False: Bullying is only grounds for progressive disciplinary action.
False. Bullying is also grounds for immediate termination depending on the severity.