Yeah, they lost me a bit at that too. Sounds crazy, but that’s practically word for word what the HR lady told me.

I truly do wish it were that easy.

I’m not the type of person that ever shies away from any task in the workplace. Even if it’s vacuuming the floor, I don’t care. But the one thing I will not do is play pointless politics. It’s counterproductive, makes for worse employees, and gets in the way of getting the job done. I…

As someone that’s been through it, there’s literally nothing to learn. Only that life is tragically unfair and that it will eventually find a way to screw you over.

Good points, but as I sometime look back on old archived emails, I realize how utterly sociopathic the guy was and wonder how I lasted as long as I did. I truly promise that I am not being dramatic or embellishing when I say that I literally tried to kill myself because of the stress the situation put me under. I woke…

Can confirm, at least on my front. I went to HR with my situation and they were ultimately pointless. If anything, they actually defended my workplace bully.

(Not sure why this had to show up twice, thought it ate my post the first time.)

I’ve obsessively played out so many different scenarios in my head of what I could have done differently. This guy was just such a dirty player, I’m convinced any effort on my end would have been spun in his favor.

It’s slightly comforting to know that there’s nothing I could have done anyways, but still horrifically…

I’ve obsessively played out the whole thing in my head ever since, and I can’t think of anything I could done to have made things any different. Had I confronted or tried to communicate things to him earlier, I’m convinced he would have found a way to leverage that to his favor. Had I gone to a supervisor, he’d have…

(Using a burner account so I can get more detailed with the specifics of the situation without identifying myself.)

I was on the business end of a workplace bully a few years ago. I was in the fifth year of a very fruitful career in what essentially was my dream job. I was kicking ass and taking names, and had…