Workplace Bullies
What does a workplace bully get from totally destroying another human being? Does the workplace bully know that his victims usually get up in the morning, vomiting and stressed at the thought of having to go to work? The victims of bullies never suffer in the bullies mind. He has made them into objects that do not have his level of feelings. He has feelings and rights and wants and his weak victim is in the way or the cause of his bad feelings and inability to advance and to be respected to the full level of his desires.
A bully at work looks at most people as lacking in the same degree of intellect and definitely in strength. He sees himself as being invulnerable to outside attack. He is too good, too smart, too connected and too caring of the needs of those less intellectual or strong as him to be attacked. That bully is using the soft side of the crab that he usually perceives other people to be to attack. If you have a vulnerable side, a bully in the workplace will find it and use it to twist your emotions and eventually your behavior to where he stands to profit from it.
While a workplace bully could be inflicting untold pain on someone, he can be telling his retinue of admirers that he is helping the company personnel to be successful. I am working for the good of the company from which we all derive our sustenance. If you don’t submit to me, I will make sure you don’t work here or anywhere else.
The two edged sword falls and the bully imagnes himself as holding the sword’s hilt. There is one defense against bullies and that is to understand their pain and try to find help for them to deal with it.