Message #62984

[raindance]

The Office Bully is a Blot on the Landscape.  We have one, and after many years of suffering this appalling woman, I have decided to view her as a sort of office pet - a malicious and untameable one.

Each Office Bully is different, but still has the same outcomes.

Our Friendly Office Bully will:

get very upset if its little ego isn't regularly fed flattery and platitudes;
organise its little friends not to talk to a specific person;
walk past its current "victim" and not greet them, and will then proceed to tell its little friends about how "clever" and "daring" it was;
exclude its victims from birthday parties, drinks, office lunches etc;
give its victims the very worst Christmas card it can find, whilst giving its friends the nicest ones;
ignore requests for help, information or repairs to equipment that it is responsible for carrying out.

A number of people have come to me about our Friendly Office Bully over the years to complain, and I have raised their issues with our CEO.  Nothing much happened until I was talking to its manager about a year ago.  Friendly Office Bully's manager (a Director) was complaining to me about something and I suggested that he might consider sorting out his own department starting with the Office Bully.  He went very quiet and white-faced.  Funnily enough, it has been reasonably well-behaved since then.  And its beginning to help people when requested.