I hope my readers have a wonderful 2017.
It has been suggested that if I had not started writing my blog the online personal abuse about me which has continued for a long time would not have happened. I therefore want to explain my reasons for writing about the bullying and the order in which things happened.
We all know people who are attention-seekers, and after a couple of alcoholic drinks most of us become attention-seekers. It is usually fairly harmless, low level behaviour when the alcohol has made us lose our inhibitions. However, there are those who turn everything that happens in their lives into a drama: from burning the toast in the morning to the evening train being late, it all becomes fodder for this type of behaviour. The people in their lives can reach overload as it can be exhausting for the “audience” if it is relentless without periods of relative calm and stability.
I decided to write a blog about workplace bullying to inform readers about the facts: what happened, how it was dealt with and the outcome. I wanted to enable readers to recognise the signs of workplace bullying if something similar happened to them. In my next post I hope to give people some skills in dealing with being bullied in the workplace. With hindsight, there are some things I would have done differently in order to achieve a better outcome.