How To Stand Up To a Workplace Bully
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When a fellow employee started bullying Christy at her workplace she took the situation to her supervisor, Human Resources, and even filed grievances with her union. But the situation never improved. In fact, it got worse to the point where Christy had no choice but to walk away from her job of over 30 years. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Megan Hunter – co-founder and CEO of High Conflict Institute and author of BIFF at Work: Your Guide to Difficult Workplace Communication. She offers insight into the bullying Christy experienced and shares advice for anyone who might be in a similar situation. "We just have to know the rules and then we can manage that relationship instead of having that person and their fear-driven operating system manage us," Megan says. With input from Christy, Megan sheds light on how to handle a toxic work environment.
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| 0:00.0 | People spend a third of their life, you know, in workplaces. |
| 0:05.8 | They can't just get up and walk away. |
| 0:07.3 | If I have a dispute with somebody in the street, I can say I'm not talking to that person |
| 0:10.7 | ever again. |
| 0:11.7 | But when it's in the workplace, we have to go back to that. |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome to How To. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Amanda Ripley. |
| 0:19.4 | 85% of people say they encounter conflict at work. |
| 0:24.4 | Some of that conflict is good, right? |
| 0:27.3 | Obviously debate where we challenge each other's ideas can absolutely make us stronger as |
| 0:32.9 | people and as organizations. |
| 0:36.0 | But sometimes conflict can do real damage. |
| 0:39.6 | One in four people have seen conflictly to sickness or absences at work close to a third |
| 0:45.1 | experience conflict always or frequently. |
| 0:49.1 | That can make work and actually your whole life kind of miserable. |
| 0:54.5 | Our listener this week who were calling Christy came to us to share her experience working |
| 0:59.3 | in a toxic environment. |
| 1:02.2 | I had somebody who was continually yelling in my face. |
| 1:05.0 | I would speak up. |
| 1:06.0 | I would tell the person to stop yelling to stop screaming in my face that it was abusive, |
| 1:10.9 | that it needed to stop and that we needed to work together. |
| 1:13.9 | I was yelled at one day weeks before I left. |
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