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Evidently harassment, bullying and physical altercations in the workplace are on the rise, marked by increases in call volume to EAP's (employee assistance programs which offer confidential counseling to employees) and workers-rights organizations.

Have you ever experienced or witness violence or threats of violence in your workplace?

If so, how have you handled them?
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- October 5th, 2009, 05:40 pm
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Unfortunately, yes. I have had to deal with:

~ Two female employees throwing punches at each other. Over a chair. (Fired)

~ Two (different) female employees bullying and harassing staff. (Fired)

~ Two male colleagues wanting to 'take it outside'. (No fight - so warnings)

I'm on the receiving end of a lot of phone calls where I am screamed at and called names. My approach to all is ... 'click!'.
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Funny this topic should come up. Just a couple of weeks ago, I had a coworker try to fight me in the middle of another department's meeting because she felt I had offended her. I sat down and kept doing my job while she continued to yell at me and act like I was egging her on. Kind of hard when you're sitting down and not even facing the person. All I did was keep telling her to shut up and go away, she kept yelling, and after a while the shocked guys around me started trying to talk her down. Eventually she calmed down and walked away.

Not surprisingly, she is the girlfriend of the guy who falsely accused me of sexual harassment a year ago. Nice.
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