With all this talk of bullying, it should be pointed out that bullying doesn't stop after high school. For a lot of folks, it doesn't get better, as the campaign suggests. A lot of folks just learn to deal. I didn't get bullied in high school, but I've certainly met my share in the workplace, particularly in the federal government where it seems all the mean girls got jobs as managers after high school. I once worked as a temporary replacement in a government department whose communications manager was an absolute monster. She would only meet face to face with the staff once a week and would manage using threatening emails. I replaced three of her staff members over four months, all of whom had taken stress leave because of her wicked queen like behavior. I've also encountered many bullies working in newspapers. They were called editors. I've been called every name in the book because they didn't like my copy. And in the early days, I was...
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