No (work)place for bullies: Stop a co-worker from bullying you

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It turns out bullying is not just child's play.

Adults are commonly bullied, too. A 2010 survey showed more than one-third of employees, 35 percent, experienced bullying at work at some time, said Heather Geerts, clinical director of Rochester's Zumbro Valley Mental Health Center.

Verbal abuse, offensive behaviors, threats, intimidation and humiliation are all forms of workplace bullying.

Bullying, Geerts said, is carried out by individuals or groups, and is characterized as any kind of persistent, aggressive or unreasonable behavior against a co-worker. Sometimes these repeated mistreatments are health-harming.

So, if you get bullied at work, what can you do?

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Source: www.postbulletin.com