Here Are 10 Ways On How To Spot An Office Bully And To Deal With Them Cleverly!

Office Bullies! Those namakool types people in the office who wouldn’t just let you breathe and make every possible effort to make your life in the office, a living hell!

You simply cannot escape them! They are the hunters who are always ready to prey the innocent humans and eat them alive! The only feeling that I get when I see one is to poke my fingers into their ribs and pretend that my fingers are sharp knives, and keep swirling them around till my heart and brain are satiated enough!

Enough said! Let us find out some effective ways How To Spot An Office Bully and deal with them cleverly. This is going to help you tremendously if you are new in your job.

1. Office Bully Will Plainly Disagree To Whatever You Say

They actually take classes in how to irritate people by contradicting to their ideas and insertions. If you simply say, “I am hungry”, they would definitely contradict to it by saying, “No you aren’t, you are just too over starved”! Well, really?

Here’s How To Deal

Learn to see through them. IGNORE!

2. Office Bullies Change Colours When They Need Your Help

No matter how bitchy and unfair they have been with you over the course of time, but when they need your help on some project that they cannot handle on their own, they would wear a layer of honey. They would try to trap you in working for them, by showing false benefits.

Here’s How To Deal 

Learn to say NO. Maybe a little politely, but do it!

3. Office Bullies Have Mastered The Art of Insult

To them, all the people they have to deal with are below their standards. They are the superior breed who are sent to earth for mass correction. They don’t like people’s humour, their attire, their hair, and even the food their lunch boxes. And they are not wary of pronouncing it on their face.

Here’s How To Deal

I say, responding to them would make you another BULLY! Do nor validate them in anyways. Keep your boundaries safe by not mingling with them at all.

4. Office Bullies Eat, Sleep and Drink Gossip

Yes! As dirty as it may sound, but they love to do this and they have a filthy behind-the-back name to possibly everyone in the office. They wouldn’t spare the peons and guards even. They just simply love to gossip about everyone and speak ill of everyone around the moment they turn their back. The forbidden sadistic pleasures you see.

Here’s How To Deal

Run away as soon as they start to gossip with you about another person. Back biting and bitching is a vicious circle, which will gobble your productivity and efficiency at work, beyond your levels of imagination.

5. Office Bullies Have An Eye On Everyone’s Personal Life

Call it prying! They love to sneak into people’s private lives and get the intricate details about what they eating, who they are sleeping with and where are they shopping at. If you are engaged in a work-talk with a co-worker, they would just barge in to know what the hell are you talking about. They even bribe the office phone operator to keep a tab on incoming and outgoing calls for all and to keep updating them.

Here’s How To Deal

If they barge into your domain, announce it to them in a stern, yet polite tone, that you are not here to take a prying eye in your life which is no business to them. Ask them to hold on to the boundaries. Speak to the seniors about it, if the need be.

6. Office Bullies Are Self Proclaimed Gurus of Everything

They are pro at everything. They can possibly handle everything from a peons job to the work-profile of a CEO. They know your job better than you. They know everyone’s job better than everyone else. The only person they are always praising about is, themselves!

Here’s How To Deal

Don’t bother! Just concentrate on your job and how you can improve on your skills every day. Your work reviews and appreciation from your bosses will eventually shut them up.

7. Office Bullies Are Fault Finding Machines

Dare you get late to office by 5 minutes, they will remember it for next complete year and will point it out at every winning feat that you might be displaying in front of your co-workers and bosses. They would make every possible effort to pin down your tiniest of mistakes to ruin your impression.

Here’s How To Deal 

Be their friend here. Be polite, say sorry and get out of their way! Do not give them another reason to backfire by arguing with them.

8. Office Bullies Are Envious of Office Bonds

If you are becoming closer to a colleague and sharing lunch hours together, office bully’s ass will be on fire. They will get so envious that they put their own equations with people on stake, in the effort to break prospective friendships in office

Here’s How To Deal

Keep them off your trust circle. Let them talk filth of anyone they wish to, do not trust them blindly and talk to the person in question, directly.

9. Office Bullies Are Credit Hoggers

If you happen to be in a team-project with them, they would try to snatch your credit and put it in their kitty, when in reality their contribution would have been negligible. They would always be the first one to present it to the boss and talk about it.

Here’s How To Deal

Either, avoid being in a team with them, or if you are bound to, keep them out of loop cleverly, so that they do not know the timelines and finish dates of the project.

10. Office Bullies Dread Good Performances

Anyone who is suddenly performing well, is a sure shot target of their dirty games. They will start to ask meaningless questions which are like not less than a thousand, to the person who got a golden card form the managers. They get so insecure that they start to ass-lick the manager to get those extra brownie points.

Here’s How To Deal 

No matter what they say and do, your job is to focus on your own work and performance thereof. If you are concentrating on the right things, no one’s games are going to affect you.

I am sincerely hoping that by now you have identified the office bully in your office and have equipped yourself to deal with them, positively and productively.