Lunch Time Poll on Bullying

[shadowkat]

This is a quick poll adjacent to my last post on bullying. Bullying in case there is confusion is defined as teasing, verbal or physical in nature, in which the victim is made to feel shame, fear, pain, insecure, or humiliation. It includes but is not limited to - being called names, having insects put in your food or textbooks, or other creatures, poked fun at, etc. (It is not just being hit or pummeled physically. Mental and emotional bullying is as bad as physical bullying, and leaves scars, they just aren't always quite so visible.) [ETC: Bullying includes teasing, excluding in a way that is obvious - ie four people in a class, three group together and whisper about the fourth while they are there, and it can be by siblings or teachers or fellow students or parents.]

(Sort of hope people will respond. I hate doing polls for this reason. It's not like a post - if no one responds, no big. But polls...sigh. )

[Poll #1631388]

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

I had a boss who was the poster child for bullying. She treated every single employee like dirt, never washed herself so both her office and her person smelled, stole money from the cash box and if you asked for time off would generally refuse for no reason. And since we were in a separate building from City Hall, no one in authority ever bothered to see what she was up to - or cared for that matter. When she took early retirement no one missed her.