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I just started this job and I have already had it with a workplace bully

Posted by: pla1554
Date: 3/14/2006 3:30:26 PM

I will try to be brief. I just started a union job 3 weeks ago and love my job. Except for this very toxic co-worker. She is the reason that we have so much turnover-no one can work with her. We work at a town community center and so the entire town comes there for sporting events, to work out and the kids all come here after school and weekends. After the 1st week I had seen enough already! She tells the kids and parents that our 3 bosses are stupid and don't know what they are doing. She bad mouths every single person that works there behind their back but are nice to their face. She loves to start trouble. I knew it was only a matter of days before she would trash me and it happened my first day off. I thought I could ignore her but then she trashed my 15 year old son to my co-workers. What she said was very wicked! Even if that was her personal opinion she should have never let anyone know she felt that way. And now I am seeing things happen every day with kids and parents of the community because of her gossip and talking about everyone who works there. How do I go about working on this to stop it? I love my job and don't want to quit. I have told her she's mean when she says things but she says "oh well". I have stuck up for my co-workers when she says nasty things about them and told her that they are my friend and I like them and tried to walk away but she just keeps it up. She is a backstabber and workplace bully that needs to be exposed and stopped. Several people want to quit because of her. But on her days off it is so pleasant and we know things would be great if she was gone but she has been there longer then even our 3 bosses(even though she is still at the starting job and would never get promoted). Any suggestions? She is the town gossip and it's really bad! My son was assulted at school-a kid hauled off and punched my son in the nose and broke it really bad. My son never laid a hand on the boy. She told my co-workers that she was glad my son got his nose broken and he deserved it. Her and I have been "friends"(just saying hi and such but not hanging out or calling each other at home or anything) for a long time just from me going to work out and pick my son up at the community center and so why would she say such a nasty thing. But she says really mean nasty things about most of the kids of the town anyway. We live on an island in Alaska with 4000 residents. Before I worked there she always told me that my son was a pleasure to have at the center and no trouble. And my son is a really nice kid. No reason to say that nasty thing about him! Except that she is evil. Quitting would be the easy way out-I think for the sake of the kids and the community she needs to be fired(or stopped for sure) but I am so new there and don't know how to let the bosses know what is really going on. Other people are afraid of her retailiating against them so they just quit and don't do anything about it. All the kids can't stand her. She's a very unliked person so I don't get it how she keeps the job. She has been caught doing stuff to be fired for but they don't fire her.

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