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#11 - When the boss gives you a wedgie and a wet-willie.

If your name is Dwight Schrute.

not another "top 10"

I HATE SLIDESHOWS. Why can't it be on one freakin' page?!?!

ten signs that forbes.com is pimping you to look at their ads.

#1 sign you're being bullied by Forbes: They get you to click "Next" 9 times and after constant complaining, they still refuse to put their "In Pictures" part of a story on one page.

...and here's the article: http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/22/health-bullying-o ...

Work Means Misery-If you often feel like throwing up or are particularly anxious the night before the start of your workweek, there's a good chance you're experiencing workplace bullying, experts say. While few people look forward to Mondays, they shouldn't cause you to feel physically ill.

Constant Criticism-If the criticism from your boss or co-worker never seems to stop, despite your history of objective competence and even excellence, a bully might be to blame. Workplace bullies also tend to have a different standard in mind for their targets, experts say.

Lots Of Yelling-Overt workplace bullies tend to make their feelings known by yelling. If you are frequently screamed at, insulted or humiliated in front of others, you're probably being bullied.

Remembering Your Mistakes-If your boss or co-worker seems to keep a file of your mistakes and constantly refer to them for no constructive reason, you're likely being bullied. Falsely accusing you of errors is another common tactic.

Gossip And Lies-A covert office bully is more likely to spread destructive gossip and lies about you and your performance, rather than scream at you in front of your co-workers. Failing to stop the spread of a rumor can be an act of bullying, too.

Gossip And Lies-A covert office bully is more likely to spread destructive gossip and lies about you and your performance, rather than scream at you in front of your co-workers. Failing to stop the spread of a rumor can be an act of bullying, too.

You Always Need Mental Health Days-If it seems like all of your paid time off is being used for mental health breaks to get away from the misery of your office, it could be because you're being bullied. Other signs include spending your days off feeling lifeless or your family members showing frustration over your constant obsessing about work.

Sabotage-A workplace bully may try to find ways to ensure that you fail at your job. Examples include changing rules on the fly that apply to your work or not performing tasks crucial to your success, such as signing off on details or taking calls.

Impossible Schedule-A workplace bully won't hesitate to change your schedule to make your life more difficult. If your boss always schedules last-minute late meetings on the days when he knows you're taking night classes or you have to pick up the kids, for instance, he or she may be a bully.

Stolen Work-You've been working day and night for weeks on a project that's now getting good buzz at your office. If your boss or co-worker steals the credit, and has a habit of doing so, you're being bullied.

I was bullied at work... and I stole a whole bunch of crap when I left...

A bit obvious...

Why did most of those stock photos look like screengrabs from some angry office porn?

I don't have to worry about this only because my years in school made it very clear this is how people simply treat me. Some people just get abused and where you are or how old you are has NOTHING to do with it. The only people who think humans actually get more mature are people who don't have to deal with it in the first place.

The best thing to be taken from this subject is that if you are being controlled by the system, be it either enslavement to schooling or at an office job, you have no escape from bullying should it occur. The best option is to stay away from environments where the most pathetic types of people congregate, and ANYONE can settle for an office job.

Another "office job" list. As if none of this happens in the face-the-public retail jobs (and the level of customer service suffers for it, too).

Wow. Another pat on the back to the time-out generation.
Sure, there are always going to be assholes at your workplace. But this kind of article comes off as nothing more than a second-rate Psych major's attempt to justify his poor choice of career by holding the hands of people who aren't able to stick up for themselves. It's a lot easier just to grow a pair stand up for yourself, rather passive-aggressively analyze why that meanie's picking on you in the first place.

People are people! We just can't avoid unprofessional people anywhere even at our workplace. We have different personalities and level of professionalism. I myself experienced this kind of bullying but I didn't go to their level. I just took them forgranted like they never existed and just do my duties and resposibilities at work. If work-related matter of course I talked to them and did my best to always maintain my temper.

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See now to me that was more like 10 reasons to quit, or punch someone... ya know.. go out with a bang :)

If you need to read a list to realize this, you've got much bigger problems.
The job probably sucks anyways.

Forbes - you are spam. You're #1, Steve.

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Apparently mac-users are prone to work bullying.

If you're being bullied and DON'T know it, are you really being bullied?

they missed out number 11.

11: If you too stupid to see any of the previous blatantly obvious signs your being bullied, you probably deserve it.

Pretty vague article but I was bullied at work once and it was a massively horrible experience. I was a fresh faced 20 year old at the time, and was consistently placed in horrible situations, blamed for failed jobs which I wasn't even involved in, and subversively abused by people speaking in another language.

One day I'd been pushed as far as I could go, got in my car on my lunch break and drove away. Never looked back since. It was a defining experience for me. I'm now successful and would never put up with that sh!t again. It made me stronger, and the type of people that did that to me only served to push me past them.

Good gawd, not this pile of ***** again. This is a PR piece written by the Workplace Bullying Institute and reformatted by this horrible author. If you don't believe me, have a look at the rest of her articles and here also is a link to the "Institute."
http://search.forbes.com/search/colArchiveSearch?a ...
http://bullyinginstitute.org/

PLEASE stop it with the slide-shows. It's the most unfriendly way ever to split up 10 paragraphs of text into 10 separate pages that try to disappear while I'm reading them.

I just had a good laugh - all of your comments are great! While I was going through the lame article with the lame pictures (on a different page), lame captions, and too many lame ads, I said to myself, "Self, read the comments on this one - they're going to be pretty funny." I agree with the general consensus: quitchyerbellyachin' and stand up for yourself!

nobody cares. fatty

It seems this theme of on-the-job bullying keeps reappearing lately but, I have to say, no matter where in your life you put the focus, if it involves interaction with other human beings, you'll find bullying taking place. As I reminded someone just last night, there are really only two kinds of people just as among other animals - predators and prey. Neither is inherently bad, after all, we all have to eat which makes us necessarily predators of a sort. Being prey isn't a bad thing either; it's merely another way of saying there are predators in the world. There's always going to be something trying to eat you if given opportunity. If you are an especially cunning sort of prey, you live. It's really that simple. At any rate, the issue is whether you are behaving as a predator unnecessarily, i.e., just to be an ass. We can all agree, there are asses everywhere you look - not simply at the workplace. I think we all pretty much know this which is why this particular article isn't overly insightful. The question on all of our minds is, how can we teach asses to stop being asses and how can one avoid an ass when they are unable or unwilling to learn?

Good job Forbes, another ***** uninformative article. Also whats the anti-thesis of a bully? Because rather than getting excluded from lunches I constantly turn down offers so that I can sit in my car alone for an hour and maybe catch some Z's. Hmmm maybe that just makes me unsociable and tired?

I guess I'm being bullied.

Is it me, or the world "bully" is being used improperly?

I mean you may are not liked by your co-workers but this doesn't mean that they bully you, you know there's always this gray area. I mean WTF? Being not invited on a lunch with co-workers is bullying? I thought bullying needed an active aggressor and a victim, it is type of harassment, if you're easily harassed then fix your sensibilities, you don't have to feel harassed when you're not. I mean you may not be liked for company either due to personality differences or anything really, but being respected at the same time. Not being invited is certainly not bullying, it may be result of such incidents but in itself it is not.

Also feeling bad about going to work does not have to require to be bullied, I mean you're maybe a creative person and you're being stuck to an awfully repetitive work for your kind of standards, that's the nature of your work, it has nothing to do with your co-workers. The same applies if you really want to get some days out, the working environment may be perfect but the nature of the work itself may be depressing.

We live in a world of lawsuits, happy lawyers and all the more depressed people who are too sensible for their own good. Maybe if we had to toughen up a little and not be that kind of sissies we wouldn't need to know if we're being bullied or not and certainly we wouldn't need lawyers to "save" us.

1 Sign That You Are Incredibly Stupid

1.) You need 10 signs from Forbes to figure out if you are being bullied at work.

"If you are frequently screamed at, insulted or humiliated in front of others, you're probably being bullied."

NO WAI !!!

Buried for linking to forbes.com

The word is harassment, and it is legally actionable. "Bullying" is a whiny fashion statement, suitable for the talk show circuit and for use in the titles of stupid redundant laws made for no reason other than the press coverage they might get their sponsors. Since Forbes published this absurd PR news release as a feature, I expect to see both of the above showing up shortly.

It's obvious the girl in most of these pictures is rather cute.

It's not that they're harassing her, it's that they're so afraid of sexual harassment lawsuits that they keep her at arm's reach.

Sometimes what looks like bullying is simply a reaction to you not being competent at your job. I knew a manager who got frustrated with an employee a lot, but the reason was that the employee was careless (such as not actually checking to see if a change got made and worked, and then claiming "it's fixed").

Buried. Forbes slideshows deserve internet death.

Maybe the reason you're not being invited to lunch is because you're socially awkward and weird? Ever think of that one?

if you need 10 signs you're being bullied you are quite the wuss hehe.

I don't think anybody would need to check against 10 signs of bullying to know whether or not they were being bullied. I mean, come on now! I've been bullied and I can tell you right now I didn't need to 'check to make sure' haha.