Is work place bulling an issue in the UK

IS WORK PLACE BULLYING AN ISSUE

 

 

Is work place bullying an issue in today's work place, well in my experience yes it is, I myself have been through it and know what it is like.

 

In my former job there were days when I would get up in the mornings before work and be physically sick because I knew I would be working with a certain person, who at the time would ignore me and blank me, yet when I spoke to my supervisor about it I was told "It's my own fault think what I had done", so no support there then, I thought about going to HR, but I had always had a feeling that Senior management were behind this after a mental break down I had had a few years earlier, some of the girls were asking sexual questions to me like had I ever had a threesome and what are you doing under the table wanking.

 

There were times when I did think of ending it all, taking my own life so to speak, but then that would only be allowing them to win.

 

What I found with my former firm is that there was a culture of bulling and innuendo, they said they had an anti bullying policy yet they were the ones doing the bullying, from the top.

 

When I mentioned to HR about feeling Isolated, Alienated and alone, I was told I only had myself to blame.

 

Typical brush it under the carpet attitude by a firms HR department when they don't want to deal with an issue, that is bullying.

 

When I did make a complaint nothing was done, no investigation, no disciplinary, yet I was dismissed because I allegedly lost something, while suffering from stress, yet I know I never, all they seem to want to do is brush the issue under the carpet. 

So if you are being bullied or know of someone who is speak out before it is to late, I wish I had, I have since found out that it was senior management who sanctioned the bullying, after I had had an emotional mental break done 2 years before this all started, I ended up being pushed into an investigation and disciplinary for something I didn't do, thus I lost my job.

I look back and wish I had something but, never because I was to scared to.