Well yeah I was bullied I guess. Mostly from racist pricks. Not that I ever stood for it. Bullies are idiots most of the time and just are lashing out because of some deficiency on their part. Same with legit Internet Trolls. Ignore either one and they tend to go away. Bullies got their asses kicked at my school though. Guess its a Kauai or Hawaii thing. Of course if someone acted stupid they got their ass kicked too. I love Kauai...

Bullies are cowards. Punch back and they will go elsewhere, is what I did when the bullies in my school tried to start on me

I would yearn for friendship, announcing every remotely interesting thing that happened to me so someone would listen. Nobody did and I never got any friends, so I didn't talk much at all anymore. Everybody ignored me while I was trying and while I wasn't trying. But I transferred to a college early, and I start to make friends, but then the quarter ends.

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I am sad now. Time to play some Fallout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMo_HcRBnUY

On top: I was never bullied on, but picked on 1 or 2 years when i was a little kid, which is a good thing to know the other side... makes you humble right?

No, I kept to myself usually.

A little bit in middle school, then I got tall and got some mass, took up boxing, and eh... no bullying didn't really happen to me after that.

I wasn't bullied on a consistent basis, but I was never part of the "in crowd" either, so it felt like I didn't fit in during my middle school and high school years. A couple of my best friends, however, were bullied a lot. Strange that no one ever went after me considering I hung around people who were usually being picked on, but seeing my best friends being picked on constantly was almost as painful as if I was being bullied myself. My friends didn't seem to care that much, but it bothered me to bits. The worst part is that I had very little confidence back then, so it was difficult for me stand up to them. That said, I wish I would have done so more, and sometimes I regret not doing so.

Either way, I suppose it doesn't matter too much anymore. I'm still friends with the same people, and two of them go to the same college as me. We pretty much have little contact with other people from high school, and we've come to a consensus that it's probably better that way.

yup... 1st through 10th. Same bully, and whenever I stood up for myself he would tell on me and get me into trouble. He was a mental bully. Basically the worst kind of bully out there. Not to mention he was one of the most popular kids in my elementary, junior high, and high school, so getting any friends wasn't all that easy. But luckily he isn't in the same college as I am. He is very lucky and so am I. I would probably be in prison, sued by his family and put into a mental institution if he was.

This is true, but often times in work place bullying there is usually enough dirt on the bully that they are very easily shut down.
Usually something known that the bully doesn't want someone else to know...speaking generally and with out getting too specific.
advlts in the workplace can be taught to behave themselves (in many cases)...or else.
I'm talking about cases where someone is really using intimidation in a way that's over the line by most standards.
[edit] The thought just occurred to me concerning going to a supervisor...if it's job related or some kind of sixual thing, but if it's more an annoying personal thing that doesn't warrant going that route...there are other ways to deal with bullies in the workplace...to be clear.

aside...*trying out the new avatar of my Fallout 3 character*

People gave me a hard time, I guess, either inadvertantly or purposely. Couldn't always tell.

I wouldn't call that bullying but I do see that sort of thing at my job like everyday. And I call it the back door method because it's usually the managers/head dept managers doing the bullying, to get someone to quit or rage so they can fire them(and be denied unemployment).

But that doesn't hold a candle to school bullying. Not by a long shot. I don't have to worry about running for my life every single day, when 3PM hits, at age 29. Although now, I kinda want someone to bully me, so I can exert all my frustration.

Having witnessed workplace bullying I'd say it can be every bit as bad, if not worse. It's not usually physically violent (at least not in white-collar jobs) but daily intimidation, social ostracising and the usual tactics in what's the major part of a person's life can be a pretty miserable experience. It's apparently the cause of quite a lot of suicides from what I understand, which suggests to me that it's really pretty serious.

Yea, never been bullied.

Unless you count teachers but I always let them know to step off because their jobs rely on me.

Not terribly. I'm not even sure it counts as bullying, but way back in middle school I had a group of friends and we all hung out for half the year. Then for some reason the leader of the group decided he didn't like me and all of my friends turned on me and started ostracizing and making fun of me, stabbing me with pencils, and talking general [censored] for the rest of the year. Come to think of it that same exact thing happened in kindergarten too.

Then there was that kid (still in middle school) who kept throwing crap at me on the school bus. A dozen paper balls every day, wet svckers, broken pens. I actually got so mad one day that I grabbed one of the svckers and tried to throw it back at him, but being the unathletic throws-like-a-girl Steampunk I let go too late and hit a random girl right behind my seat. I still feel bad about that. Where ever you are random girl who had nothing to do with it, I'm so so sorry.

That's pretty much it. I got over a lot of things in mid high school, and one of them was dealing with people. I think there were some isolated cases of people doing stupid things to me, once or twice, but eventually they just forgot about it and left me alone. By my senior year people would apologize if they accidentally hit me with a pen in class while throwing it at their friends. I think everybody just grew up.

You could say I was at the bottom of the social chain at school. I was bullied for a while, until one day I simply turn around and with one push, knocked the other guy to the ground right in front all all his mates. He left me alone pretty much after that....pretty much they realised I was holding myself back from just flattening them.

However, even though I was at the bottom of the social chain, I played on the school soccer team and I could hang around with many different groups of people....though I preferred to run the school chess club at lunch times rather then play sports or hang around and chat with people.

I was bullied somewhat in Primary school because of my ginger/auburn hair. I was also the "good" boy out of all the boys in our class.

I'm pretty scrawny, but I use my massive charm to get around everything.

People try to bully ne through verbal abuse, hardly ever works/I just burn them even harder

Yes, but only by someone that everyone else resented. I was actually pushed into a puddle for no reason...in high school. The guy was such a jerk!

I was bullied as a kid (like elementary age), sometimes for racial reasons, I guess. But I ended up turning into a bully myself by middle school/high school. I think THAT started off with good intentions - the need to assert myself and fight without hesitating - but it got to my head. I started being the person who pushed his weight around. I think I ended up ruining myself for awhile during this period (even as far as professional prospects go. I ended up getting assault charges, jail time, stuff like that). By my late teens/early 20's, I found some balance.

I was not the most popular kid in school but i did have a good deal of friends, which in my view was the main reason i was not bullied.

I kept to myself mostly, yet there were times I was verbally bullied. By high school, I just didn't care anymore. I tended to have more friends that were not my age (older and younger). My grade was pure jerks.

Same.
It makes me bitter thinking about it, they encouraged me to be passive, to do nothing about it. I think about those years, and it would have been so much easier if I just ignored them and beat the [censored] out of some people. But no, I could never get in the right state of mind, all becuase the ones I was supposed to trust were [censored]s, who would rather the problems be more hidden.

Self-defense was encourged in my school, and also My dad taught me if someone physically assualts you, you assault them back.

How I wish one could practice self defense at my school without getting suspended for protecting my physical wellbeing. Always found that annoying and one of the few school rules that I actually had issues with (nearly got suspended during the 9th grade). I'm not saying that violence will work on every bully mind you but it certainly works with many of them who would take on those they deem a 'weak' target out of a sense of cowardness.

There vermin, they pick on the people they seem weak, they try to make them suffer and lose hope of escapeing them, they disgust me...