Dear Rebecca:

Reading your post above I remembered what I saw in a recent Country Fair- there was an exhibit of a few young pigs- three of them were grey or brown (I don’t remember) and one was white. The three grey pigs were bullying the white one non-stop. I wanted to get in there and slap the three silly. I was so annoyed. They kept poking the white one who was doing nothing to them but trying to get away. They kept at it, poking and pushing him.

Visibly clear, the one bullied was the white one, the different one, the one that stood out. Possibly, in your case, you are the empathetic worker, the one that stands out. Do you think that is the reason?

anita