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E-mail me!. Unfortunately, I can’t answer every question, but I do try to do as many as I can. To increase your chances of getting your question answered, please limit yourself to two-three reasonably sized paragraphs and try to figure out what your real problem is. Punctuation and capitalization are pluses.
All HR people are evil, it’s in our job description. Or at least, that seems to be the prevailing theory. In reality, there’s just more going on behind the scenes than most people know. I’m here to demystify your Human Resources department and tell you just why you worked your tail end off all year and still got a 1.7 percent bonus.
No, absolutely not. I too was bullied in school, and later found that most of my bullies had matured. They didn’t exactly apologize, but were genuinely nicer to me once we saw each other again later.
People grow up. There’s no point in pinning someone to the wall if she’s realized her behavior was reprehensible. Like you said in the article, Suzanne, there really should be no tolerance for it either from kids or adults. Bullying is a horrible thing, but it needs to be dealt with at the time it’s happening.
Yes. Saying to a 14 year old, “You should be nice because 7 years from now…” will go in one ear and out the other.
People may “grow up” after high school (or skate through with no accountability of how they treat others; or learn how to hide their toxic personality and repackage it to something more socially acceptable), but core personality and temperament traits such as integrity are pretty solidified even in childhood, and certainly by high school. I don’t think this is a case of people being unfairly punished so much as it is the chickens coming home to roost. People should be held accountable for their behavior and bosses should look for employees who have integrity and can be trusted to treat others with basic human dignity.