I know that part of the reason also that I feel upset is the way a male worker spoke to me.  That was even before the medication error was found.  Most of the people at work are pleasant – good at communication and maintaining work relations.  This guy D though has upset people with the way he speaks and behaves.  Two of the women have been upset by him and one of the males who is second in charge.

For me though, this is a pattern, I become very upset by bullies and conflict, and certain this is because of my childhood and later years in a home of mental illness, alcoholism, violence and verbal abuse.

I had been feeling good, and now feel flat on my back – not just the burn out, the humiliation and shame of the error, but by dealing with a really unpleasant person who has pressed my buttons of childhood abuse.

I’m sorry for the ranting, but I know this is an important reason why I feel knocked of my feet after recently feeling I had been coping so well.

There are bullies everywhere in the workforce.  Unfortunately, even in good workplaces, there would nearly always be one.  Like my relationships, I just  hadn’t been there long enough to have to deal with the negative side.

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