You can’t Stop Bullying at Work with Employee Satisfaction Programs
July 3, 2009
Most people believe that happy employees are more productive, treat each other better and give better customer service. That’s not true.
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Coalition Stops Go Daddy Cyber Bullying Web Site
June 21, 2009
Numerous articles, including Sandy Maple’s on parentdish.com, “Teen Insult Web Site Shut Down,” have reported that online free speech has bowed to the pressure of community values. In an effort to stop online harassment, cyber bullying and abuse, a coalition has pressured Go Daddy, the internet host, to pull a web site, “People’s Dirt,” out of cyberspace. Calling it an “insult site” is misleading. The site was forum for anonymous hate mail.
What did it take to pressure Go Daddy to drop the site?
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Whose Job is it to Stop Bullies in Schools?
June 15, 2009
In his recent ABC news opinion column, “Want to Stop Bullies?” Lee Dye cites new studies that claim that:
- Girls are more likely than boys to intervene to stop bullying than boys are.
- Girls intervene more because they’re expected to by their parents, best friends and favorite teachers.
- Popular males are more likely to pick on weaker boys, while unpopular, weaker but aggressive boys are more likely to pick on girls.
Of course. So what?
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Stop School Bullies with Anti-Bullying Programs
June 13, 2009
As reported in separate stories by Yadira Betances and Margo Sullivan in the New Hampshire Eagle Tribune, some middle schools are effectively implementing anti-bullying, anti-abuse programs. The recent suicides of four teenage girls may stimulate a sense of urgency. There are some differences in the programs to stop bullies, but both have the seven elements crucial to success.
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Stop Relentless Bullies and Psychopaths Who Take Advantage of Your Politeness
June 11, 2009
We all recognize as bullies, brutes (male or female) at work or in our love and family lives who hit people or threaten physical violence. But more bullies get away with their harassment, bullying and abuse by taking advantage of their victims’ rules about politeness.
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Get Away from a Controlling, Bullying, Abusive Husband
June 9, 2009
Here’s an email I received from an abused wife, hoping her story helps other women recognize and get away from their controlling, bullying, abusive husbands before it’s too late.
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Transforming a Community in the Wake of School Abuse, Bullying and Suicides
June 1, 2009
Here’s a new slant on the cluster of suicides of four teenage girls from Schenectady High School, New York, that was stimulated by abuse and bullying in school and a war-zone environment outside school.
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Teen Suicides Should Lead to Anti-Bullying, Abuse School Programs
May 28, 2009
A rash of teen suicides (4 in the last six months) has alarmed a Schenectady, New York school district. At least two of the suicides have been directly attributed to abuse and bullying, especially girl to girl harassment. However, the school superintendent has been quoted as spreading the blame, “The community is also beginning to understand that these activities are embedded within neighborhoods and even in the homes across our city and across our country.” He has also made the point that educators aren’t parents and that their influence and control are limited.
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Backlash: Women Bullying Women at Work
May 11, 2009
In an article in the New York Times on May 9, 2009, “Backlash: Women Bullying Women at Work,” Mickey Meece describes numerous cases of women bullying women at work.
Of course, women abuse, harass and sabotage other woman at work, just like men do to each other. Sometimes they’re overt and sometimes they’re stealthy, sneaky. Isn’t that your experience?
More important than distracting questions and considerations about how much they do it, why they do it or do they do it more or differently than men, are:
- Do you recognize the early warning signs of bullies?
- Do you know how to stop them skillfully?
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Teen Suicides Stimulated by Harassment and Bullying; Students Unprotected
May 8, 2009
Two teenagers, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover and Jaheem Herrera, committed suicide recently after being taunted and bullied repeatedly and relentlessly while officials at their schools did nothing.
Unrelenting harassment led a third, Eric Mohat, to commit suicide a few years ago. Again, school officials denied there was a bullying problem. Yet he was one of four bullied Mentor High School students who committed suicide that year.
All three were harassed as gay. None was.
These three boys are just the most publicized tip of an epidemic that’s sweeping our schools.
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