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New Documentary Announcement
Please check out this film! The Drs. Namie and the WBI Legislative Campaign are featured. It’s a documentary that begins with post office homicide and then introduces bullying as a potential toxic...
View ArticleGuest blog: Bullying and Nurses
Destructive Workplace Behaviors and Turnover in Nursing by Cheryl Painter, MBA/HCM/NHCE, BSHA, PhD candidate, published in the Arizona Healthcare Executives, Spring 2009. Destructive workplace...
View ArticleA little "good" bullying?
Hateful, despicable people often act as apologists for bullies. For instance, corporate attorney Jeff Tannenbaum from Littler Mendelson long ago told the SF Business Times that some people deserve a...
View ArticleWhen adults cyberbully others
Raphael Golb, a 50 year old literature scholar and real estate lawyer with a Harvard Ph.D. and an NYU law degree, posed online through false identities as academics whose scholarly work about the Dead...
View ArticleThe developing human brain and bullying
At WBI we use physical sciences to complement the “softer” social science research. It is useful to convince all opponents (the courts when involved in legal cases, business lobbyists fighting our...
View ArticleBullying writ large
For a long while we have watched President Obama put a higher priority on compromise than any other mode of operating in the political arena. He has been accused of capitulating by his supporters. His...
View ArticleWarren Buffett: Why Did He Enable a Bullying Exec?
By John Baldoni | April 28, 2011 While I will not admit to enjoying the downfall of others, it is refreshing to see an executive who treats others poorly fall from power. Such is the case with David...
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CNN study: Schoolyard bullies not just preying on the weak
Everyone already knows of the common stereotype, how bullies pick on the weakest kid on the playground. It is often used to justify the act of bullying itself, like a form of social Darwinism that...
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Workplace Bullying is not incivility or mere disrespect
What’s in a name? Plenty of power to change. We at WBI have long recognized that bullied targets cannot even begin to reverse their situation until they acknowledge that their work lives have been...
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Trudeau-Doonesbury exposes Romney’s adolescent “prank” as assault
Remember bullying was once excused as a “rite of passage” for children. No longer. Gary Trudeau is brilliant with “Bullies are people, too, my friend” and (Hate crimes) are “part of growing up, my...
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Jennifer Livingston, TV anchor, blasts her cruel bully on TV
A man wrote a cruel letter to local WKBT-TV anchor, Jennifer Livingston, in La Crosse Wisconsin. He wrote “”Surely you don’t consider yourself a suitable example for this community’s young people,...
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Support Group for Targets Forming in Seattle
WBI's Administrator and licensed mental health counselor, Jessi Eden Brown, MS, LMHC, LPC, NCC is forming a support group for targets of workplace bullying. Jessi's private practice is located in the...
View ArticleFast Company: Good article on woman-on-woman bullying
We reprint a good article on the topic of woman-on-woman workplace bullying. You can read our own thinking about it here. The W-o-W bullying phenomenon was also captured in the WBI 2010 U.S. Workplace...
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Huff Post: Republicans ‘demogoguery and bullying’
Chris Hayes of MSNBC said it, we didn’t. He was referring to the Senate nomination hearing for Hagel as Secretary of Defense.
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Defending Barbara Coloroso, genuine bullying expert
This summer the Toronto Star reported on a lawsuit between co-authors of a book on bullying, The Bully Trap, to be published by HarperCollins. The story angle was too cute — bully book authors bully...
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EEOC, Whistleblower Protections, and Federal Shutdown
The Federal Shutdown is hurting the middle class and the working poor the most. A co-coordinator for the California Healthy Workplace Bill Advocate group gave us some more news about the shutdown’s...
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Cities and counties declare Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week!
As part of Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week, the WBI has been encouraging cities across the country to take a stand. So far over 200 have since 2011. We’ve created a gallery of proclamations to...
View ArticleThe Commons Online: Brattleboro VT teacher claims bullying by administrators
Town School Board rejects public discussion as inappropriate part of formal grievance process By Olga Peters, The Commons, October 23, 2013 BRATTLEBORO —The five-member Brattleboro (Vermont) Town...
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Bullies: They’re Not Just In Middle School
by The Associated Press October 27, 2013 9:02 AM NEW YORK (AP) — Was a losing team bullied? Is your angry spouse a bully? How about that co-worker who’s always criticizing you? Or the politicians who...
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Daily Show: Lessons from Dick Incognito for all workplaces
After Jon Stewart sets the context for needing new NFL rules, at the 1:40 mark John Oliver and friends clarify the “Do’s and Don’ts” for workplaces. (Warning: language potentially unsafe for work)...
View ArticleStone: Why Does It Take a Richie Incognito for Us to Start Talking About...
By Kerri L. Stone, Associate Professor of Law, Florida International University, Huffington Post, Nov. 16, 2013 In the wake of the Richie Incognito suspension, a big question that we need to ask...
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Hazing in China, the same the world around
The New York Times reports on a disturbing June 2012 video posted on YouTube of severe hazing within a brigade of the People’s Armed Police, a Chinese group that provides for internal security and...
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Here’s a bullying thug: GOP Congressman Grimm
Last week, the FBI arrested Congressman Michael Grimm’s (R-NY) fundraiser (and ex-girlfriend) Diana Durand on charges of illegally contributing more than $10,000 to Grimm’s 2010 campaign through straw...
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Flipping a switch: Abuse is wrong in a violent (NFL) workplace
Ever since the media explosion in October 2013 following Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin’s decision to leave the team due to an abusive work environment, jock pundits struggled to...
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Jonathan Martin explains targeting for abuse in the NFL
Jonathan Martin, Miami Dolphins offensive lineman, left the team in October, 2013. His voluntary decision to leave an “abusive environment” caused a firestorm of controversy in the sports world. On...
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NFL: Bully PR smears victim despite facts
The Miami Dolphins bullying scandal mirrors in so many ways what happens to bullied targets in corporate and government jobs. Follow the full NFL story in the Category list in the sidebar: NFL:...
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Report to NFL on workplace conduct/bullying at the Miami Dolphins
On Nov. 6, 2013, the National Football League hired Ted Wells and the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP to conduct an independent investigation into issues of workplace conduct...
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NFL Dolphins react to Wells’ report – fire coach & trainer
The owner of the NFL Miami Dolphins fired offensive line coach Mike Turner and trainer Kevin O’Neil. Turner was named as an accomplice in the mistreatment of Jonathan Martin by Ted Wells in his report...
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Issa should be embarassed by his bullying conduct
US Congressman Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight Committee bullied fellow Congressman Elijah Cummings and below is the video record of it recorded by C-SPAN. Issa allowed no one to testify at...
View ArticleUniv of Minnesota: Graduate student bullying
Grad and Professional Student Bullying Rises By Christopher Aadland, Minnesota Daily, November 24, 2014 University of Minnesota surveys show peer-to-peer and faculty-to-student bullying has risen since...
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Expansion of civil rights law – transgender protection
“Protection” of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extends to claims of discrimination based on an individual’s gender identity, including transgender status. Of course, “protection” actually...
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Firing of coworker who drove correctional officer to suicide upheld
WBI: Justice is about to be meted out in Madison Wisconsin three years after Philip Otto took his own life though he was close to retirement from the WI Department of Corrections. Otto had transferred...
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Watch adults do the right thing when overhearing kids bullying a peer
Though at WBI we focus exclusively on adults bullying one another in the workplace, there are lessons to be derived from attempts to stop schoolage bullying. A wonderful experiment exposed adults at a...
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Sac Bee: Former Folsom prison Dental Assistant Awarded $1.1 million
By Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, July 28, 2016 with WBI commentary inserted Sacramento jurors, in a $1.1 million verdict Wednesday, sided with a state corrections employee who claimed her higher-ups...
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Boss abhors “snowflakes”– won’t hire ’em
A brash owner of a small marketing firm in Manchester, Connecticut is making news by describing his hiring interview strategy. Unapologetic about being comfortable leveling applicants with personal...
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