you should try working where i am, we have a rather militant group led by an overbearing bully (or so he thinks), he even pinned the general manager against the coffee machine a few months back, in all fairness the general manager is a bit too soft and is walking a fine line between needing the guy and having all the tools to chuck him out the door with his tools after 27yrs.
we have to tolerate the bully for the time being until we find a resolve, we had a new member of staff 3 months back, he sweet talked her, was nice to her ,even giving her a new mp3 player, then when she was fully into him he told her to lodge a complaint for bullying against me,
unfortunately for the pair of them i never miss anything thats going on on account of all the gossips at work, so we had a meeting with her and she struggled not to drop them all in it along with herself, shame, she really slipped up when she announced that she had previously been in the same position before in several companies, oh well, she is being told monday that her contract is finished as we don’t need any more disruptive elements at work,
in the whole i feel sorry for her as she has been manipulated by the bully and ultimately it cost her her job, and during all this time i never said a bad word about her and was always very helpful, never mind.
about 30% of our workforce is this way inclined and seem to spend most of their days complaining about people telling them to do some work and stop standing round, they don’t even realise their actions could cost us all our jobs if they don’t do some work soon, still you can’t sack them because they is infringing their rights to be employed and they see it as bullying or discrimination against them..
50 cal..5:30 in the car park that would be a good resolve. 😉