Re: Bullying

[allan wallace]

Hmmm, very interesting! I was on my way out but couldn’t help having a peep in here! I’m unemployed, and have had difficulties in staying employed when I have been employed. If it’s not the boredom of a job that kills me, it’s the dynamics of a place that does. ‘Mobbing’. I hadn’t seen that term applied before, but yes, I’ve certainly experienced it. I was always a misfit, so I never was Mr. Popular anywhere, but I very quickly assumed the position of nonchalance. Even in workplaces I’d experience it. Just a quick anecdote. I’d started a new job and made no effort to sit at a table where all the other guys sat to get to know them during breaks, and I’d read a book at another table by myself. For a few days I put up with the sniggers, and wisecracks, but on the third day I put my book down and told the loudmouth that had been leading the snide remarks that the next time he had something to say about me or the book that I was reading that I’d smack him in the mouth just where he sat amongst his mates, and that I didn’t care if I got sacked as the job didn’t mean much to me anyway. I didn’t hear another wisecrack, and the crap stopped right there. I’d just seem to not care about being excluded, and if anybody tried the physical stuff I’d fight like a little demon, so they soon learnt to leave me well alone. I always sort of hung out with the nerds that were also rejected, or the naughty kids who were tickled by the idea of a nerd that wouldn’t get pushed around, but I do have a special contempt for bullies. In my late teens and early 20’s I used to get a buzz out of tricking bullies into thinking that I was scared of them before giving them a bit of a ‘tune-up’. Hopefully they’d have had a different perspective on bullying people that somehow looked inferior to them… *hug*

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