George Bush, Workplace Bully

[OrdinaryTa]

Bush strikes me as a workplace bully. He's insecure, he has a mean streak, and he pushes blame on his underlings. Rumsfeld and Cheney also look like they have sizable mean streaks. It must be difficult to work for either of them. Condoleezza Rice regularly swallows her pride, tells clumsy lies, and takes blame for other people's bad decisions. For all we know, she did object to the 16 words.

This must be the Golden Age of workplace bullying. Jobs are tight and the nasty guy in the White House gives his subordinates demeaning names; he objects to being upstaged; and he insists on absolute loyalty. Every workplace bully in America must feel empowered by his example.

I once reported to a workplace bully at a time when I desperately needed a job. He got more and more brazen as he went along, thinking that he could continue to get away with it indefinitely. After I'd squirreled away enough money that I could risk being fired on the spot, I waited for him to trap himself in front of witnesses. He did. He said something of an unambiguously sexual nature that I was able to file a harassment complaint.

He got me fired, but the company lawyers had to do handstands to get it past the EEOC. However, the fact of that complaint is part of his work record. If he does it again, the company itself is on the hook for a huge damage claim. Because workplace bullies typically know just how much they can get away with, I can't imagine being in a similar situation now. These people take advantage of desperate times, making the lives of their subordinates utterly miserable.

http://www.kickbully.com/main.html

[meow2u3]

1. Bush isn't the only workplace bully around

Look at the U.S. House, and you'll see the epitome of workplace bullies: "Toxic" Tom DeLiar!

[HungryLoser]

2. That site just described my ex-supervisor

she's a woman who openly addmitted she hadn't had a boyfriend in 3 years... hmmm, somethings pent up there. I found another job for more pay, but sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't have stuck around just to agravate her. I don't bully easy, I make them lose their tempers when they don't phase them, then they lose their tempers and end up looking like assholes. I think I scared my boss, because that's what ended up happening.
But there doesn't seem like there's much else to do with them, they're usually the ones in power.
Everyone I know thinks Ari got fed up with G DUHbya and quit, I always liked him, if not what he was saying, there's only so much crap a person can eat without getting sick.

[OrdinaryTa]

5. Why Ari Quit

When I look at Bush all I see is his creepiness, but lots of people are taken in by him. The Boy Prince has gone through life with a sense of entitlement, but it must grate on the people that he works with. Especially if you didn't have success handed to you; you had to work for it.

To give Ari Fleischer credit, being a spokesman for an ignoramus like George Bush has to be a challenge. In return for Ari's efforts, Bush addressed him by some demeaning - and possibly antiSemitic - nickname. Ari got a shock when his visit to his alma mater provoked a sizable protest.

[JackSwift]

3. Republicans love high unemployment

because they can abuse employees and generally treat them like crap and pay little. It makes them feel very powerful to be really abusive to employees, its a high for them.

[cthrumatrix]

4. * is just following the orders of corporate america and the laws that are

passed enhance their bottom line.

[SharonAnn]

6. Read The Addictive Organization by Anne Wilson Schaef

Bush is a drunk, albeit he may be a "Dry Drunk" and the organization he leads is dysfunctional because it's run by him and others like him.

As a recovering alcoholic, I'm hyper-sensitive to these signs and when I see organizations like that (or am in organizations that are like that), I run like hell. These are sick, vicious people and they're very dangerous to people and other living things. They only way to survive in them is to become part of the system which makes you part of the problem. And if you try to limit their damage, you end up enabling their behavior.

And you're right, they take no personal responsibility for anything.