Tag Archive | bullying
Bullying at the Ballot Box
©2024 Gail Pursell Elliott With a new election year, comes a deluge of television advertising, passionate candidates, and impassioned supporters. Unfortunately in recent years, people who work at polling centers, many who volunteer their time, have been subjected to Bullying and Mobbing. The perpetrators are campaign workers or voters who support a candidate to the […]
Working the Gray Area
©2014 Gail Pursell Elliott “The only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradictory, the impossible, the irrational, and thus shake the concept of rationality in his victim.” — Ayn Rand Whether or not you agree with Ayn […]
When a Bully is the Target
©2013 Gail Pursell Elliott The term mobbing originates from the animal kingdom, generally referring to birds although it does occur in other species. There is a barnyard behavior known as chicken pecking which is not when one bully chicken picks on another, but when all of the chickens target and isolate one bird and take […]
School Mobbing and Emotional Abuse by Gail Pursell Elliott
School Mobbing and Emotional Abuse by Gail Pursell Elliott “Were you ever bullied, ganged up on, or picked on as a kid back in school? Sure, we all were. But today such attacks are taken a bit more seriously — and rightly so, for they can easily turn deadly. As Gail states, ‘Mobbing is terrorism.’ […]
When the Workplace is a School
©2013 Gail Pursell Elliott With the new school year just beginning, many anti-bullying programs are getting attention. A student came home last year after his principal had presented a well meaning bullying assembly program and observed that the program taught the students more of how to bully someone rather than how to stop it. […]
Mobbing and Bullying 