Survive Bullying at Work

3 Understanding why bullies are picking on you

This chapter turns its attention away from the bullies themselves and on to their targets. People want to know what leads bullies to single them out for ill-treatment, but as we’ll see below, there isn’t one main issue: it can come from many reasons, but the most important thing to note is that no-one deserves to be bullied.

Targets should not think that they themselves are causing the bullying, either consciously or unwittingly.

Step one: Understand why people are targeted

Sadly, no-one is bully-proof—bullies ...