Do Not Let Workplace Verbal Abuse Dominate Your Career

As a general rule, verbal abuse in the workplace isThen if you should end up being terminated or
done by a supervisor or higher up in the companysuspended because of your inability to give the
and stems from being a disciplinarian that has thencompany your most productive work, you will have
escalated to consistent verbal abuse of the peopleevidence of abuse and an extremely good reason for
under his authority.the poor performance if the verbal abuse is what is
This is not to say that the authority figure will alwaysactually causing it.
be the one that uses workplace verbal abuse toThis type of workplace bullying can be the reason
control their target by denigrating and belittling them.behind many health issues that you might be
Co-workers can also be responsible for verballyexperiencing too so get regular checkups with your
abusing their counterparts and do it as a controllingdoctor and let him know that you are under an
measure to make the target feel lower in statureextreme amount of stress caused by being verbally
than the other workers in their departments.abused at work. The bottom line here is to
The apparent reasoning for this workplace verbaldocument everything so it will be on record should
abuse is generally all over the map, from theyou need it.
controlling boss wanting to keep his workers in aTry to reason it all out. Why are you being verbally
subservient role to a jealous co-worker wanting toabused and is it because of something you did to the
earn points with the boss.abuser that is causing it or is it just the way they
The actual reasons behind the verbal abuse in yourare. If it's just the way they are then a lot can be
workplace are not as important as what can be donedone to bring pressure on them to stop but you
about it. Besides just going to the abuser's supervisorneed documentation of the abuse simply to prove
and complaining loudly, you should be keeping athat it is going on and is beyond being reasonable
record of these verbal assaults on you every timediscipline, so prepare yourself first and you will have a
you are subjected to it.much greater chance of stopping it forever.