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Find that job: Lesson 100. Stop the bully

Even if you're lucky enough to work with people you like, chances are that from time to time they will drive you mad. But what if you're being bullied? If people you work with threaten, undermine, offend or humiliate you?

A bully is a person who uses their strength or power to threaten, undermine, offend or humiliate others.

According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, most companies regard the following behaviour as constituting bullying:

  • Physically attacking others

  • Threatening violence

  • Making insulting comments

  • Humiliating or ridiculing others about their work

  • Removing the rights or responsibilities of others

  • Constantly criticizing others

  • Passing off the work of others as your own

  • Spreading rumours or gossip

  • Ignoring others

  • Invading others' personal space


    • So, how do you stop the bully? The advice is: meet the bully head-on. Nip it in the bud. Stand up for yourself. Tell him - or her, what you think. Like this, maybe

    Dear Elizabeth, Your behaviour towards me has been unacceptable recently. For example, you undermined my suggestion at the weekly brainstorming session last week, saying my idea was 'pie in the sky'. I found this very embarrassing in front of my team and my manager. And you also rolled up your eyes to heaven on the other three occasions I spoke during the session. This is an inappropriate way to behave towards me and I would like you to stop.
     
    aSłOWNICZEK
     
    bully - osoba, która zastrasza, tyranizuje, znęca się (nad słabszymi)
     
    to drive sb mad - doprowadzać kogoś do szału

    to bully - znęcać się, zastraszać, tyranizować

    to undermine - podkopać, osłabić, nadszarpnąć

    to threaten - grozić, straszyć

    to offend - obrażać

    to humiliate - upokarzać

    behaviour - zachowanie

    to constitute - tu: stanowić (coś)

    violence - przemoc

    insulting comment - obelżywa uwaga

    to ridicule - ośmieszać

    to remove - usunąć, odebrać

    rights and responsibilites - prawa i obowiązki

    to pass off - udawać, fałszywie przedstawiać/reprezentować

    to spread rumour or gossip - rozsiewać pogłoski i plotki

    to invade sb's personal space - naruszać czyjąś przestrzeń osobistą

    to meet head-on - stawić czoła

    to nip in the bud - zdusić w zarodku

    to stand up for oneself - stanąć we własnej obronie

    unacceptable - nie do zaakceptowania

    brainstorming session - sesja burzy mózgów

    pie in the sky - mrzonka, gruszka na wierzbie

    embarassing - żenujący

    team - zespół, ekipa

    to roll up one's eyes to heaven - przewracać oczami, wznosić oczy do nieba (w geście zniecierpliwienia, lekceważenia itp.)

    inappropriate - nieodpowiedni
     


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