No Bullying. Bullying is when someone tries to hurt, humiliate or upset another person repeatedly. It can be hurting someone’s body or feelings, spreading rumors, playing nasty jokes, name- calling or deliberately excluding someone. Bullying can happen face to face or via the Internet or mobile phone (Cyberbullying). Bullying and put-downs are NEVER acceptable. Bullying is serious and illegal behaviour. It spoils things for everyone. Everyone can act to stop bullying. Even one person doing something small can make a difference. Let a teacher know if you are aware that bullying is going on. It is brave and the right thing to do because you are trying to help someone who is in trouble. To protect ourselves from bullying we can: • stand up for ourselves and others • think for ourselves, state our own ideas and opinions • use confident body language and stay in safe places If someone is being bullied we can: • stand up for them, let them know that bullying is wrong and mean • include them in groups and games • ask for help from a teacher • never join in, even by smiling or using other body language that supports the bullying behaviour If you are being bullied you need to: • tell the person bullying to stop, calmly and firmly • ask a teacher for support. Teachers care about you and want to stop the bullying. • remember that the person bullying is doing the wrong thing, it is not your fault and there is nothing wrong with you. If you bully others you need help. Your parents will be contacted. Many young people who bully become adults who mistreat and hurt others.
No Bullying. This includes, but is not limited to, name-calling, making threats, spreading rumors, excluding someone from activities, hitting/kicking/pinching, making fun of someone’s appearance, making fun of someone’s family, and taking or breaking someone’s things
No Bullying. Bullying, piling on, mobbing and other personal attacks are prohibited. Demeaning and harassing behavior and speech are prohibited. “When conversations descend to the level of name-calling, mocking, sneering, belittling, threatening or other forms of harassment, pleas to others to curb abusive behavior are not tone-policing. Lashing out with the express intention of hurting someone is not activism, it’s bullying.” See xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/think/what-tone-policing Complaints of “tone-policing” are inapt “when arguments are personal rather than targeting a large group or structure.” “In ‘pile-on’ situations (where a large number of people ‘call out’ an individual online, sometimes for days or weeks), even the most justified argument, when repeated by a large volume of people in variously polite and abusive ways, can cause high levels of distress.” See xxxx://xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/2015/04/23/words-for-cutting-why-we-need-to-stop-abusing-the-tone- argument/ “When we talk about ‘toxicity in activism’ this is one of its most crucial vectors: the use of things like the tone argument to excuse any and all expression, no matter how abusive, because it can be garlanded with pretensions to forthright opposition to oppression. You’re not brutalizing someone to tears, you’re attacking patriarchy or white supremacy. You’re not a bully, you’re a fiery radical. You’re not rhetorically violent, you just won’t be silenced by xxxxxxxxx norms of politeness.” “Not every emotion we have is a great strike against oppressive forces. Sometimes you are just being too loud, abusing people verbally, triggering them, and so forth. Sometimes you are just being a jerk and our tone is a fairly reliable indicator of this.” See xxxx://xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/2015/04/23/words-for-cutting-why-we-need-to-stop- abusing-the-tone-argument/ See also xxxxx://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx/2015/07/21/on-tone-policing-and-acceptable- expressions-of-anger/
No Bullying. You may not use the Website to threaten, abuse, harass, or invade the privacy of any person.
No Bullying. The County and the Union do not tolerate bullying behavior from anyone. Whether it be: Employee to employee, Employee to manager, or Manager to employee. Bullying behavior defined: any repeated severe or pervasive verbal or physical actions that a reasonable person would find unwelcome under the same or similar circumstances, at the place of work and/or in the course of employment. If the bullying is employee-employee, the employee who is the recipient of the bullying will notify their direct supervisor. If the supervisor fails to act or if retaliation occurs, the Union may file a grievance at step 2. If the bullying is from a Manager or Supervisor, the Union may file a grievance at step 2. If the bullying is from the employee’s Department Head, the Union may file a grievance at step 3.
