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Coyote_Bandit

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18. Some of the worst bullying I've ever observed

Reply to catbyte (Reply #10)

Thu May 17, 2012, 09:01 AM

May 2012

was inflicted by adults - some of them supervisors or part owners - of a very stuffed shirt mid-size business. The objects of their ridicule included their co-workers: the gay guy in the mailroom, never married romantically unattached women, fat people, poorer employees, employees whose formal business attire was not fashionable, those with unusual religious beliefs.

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900 Cries For Help... Now She's Dead [View all] MrScorpio May 2012 OP

Recommending. Cooley Hurd May 2012 #1

K&R. This is so unspeakably sad... Rhiannon12866 May 2012 #2

Jesus. What can one say? GliderGuider May 2012 #3

there are so many bullies SemperEadem May 2012 #4

OMG!!!!!!!! NT mfcorey1 May 2012 #5

Horribly sad, and even worse that .. Myrina May 2012 #6

Parents need to monitor their kids' computers. Also, is the Christian Right secondwind May 2012 #7

In MI they tried to pass an "Anti-Bullying" law that exempted bullies of LGBT catbyte May 2012 #11

It looks like she had some serious mental health issues that they hadn't yet found solutions for. Brickbat May 2012 #8

I agree, but... get the red out May 2012 #9

Years of being mocked, ridiculed, told your ugly, etc. can do that to you magical thyme May 2012 #13

magical thyme, I don't have any clever advice or anything, but I can relate to your story. Romulox May 2012 #15

It's tragic but 19 seems old to be bullied catbyte May 2012 #10

there is no "too old to be bullied" magical thyme May 2012 #14

+111111111111111 Tsiyu May 2012 #17

Some of the worst bullying I've ever observed Coyote_Bandit May 2012 #18

Wow. Maybe you don't know too much about bullying. lapislzi May 2012 #19

I am a woman abolugi May 2012 #22

You can be bullied at any age and in any format. I'm 31 and was recently cyberbullied. vaberella May 2012 #24

Her parents blame anonymous people of Facebook? "NO ONE had noticed..." Romulox May 2012 #12

That was my first thought laundry_queen May 2012 #21

Sometimes you don't. My sister was bullied for 7 fuckin' years and I never thought... vaberella May 2012 #25

Sorry your sister went through that. I hope it made her stronger, somehow. Romulox May 2012 #27

This isn't about bullying. It's about mental illness. lynne May 2012 #16

Or maybe it was the bullying and the mental illness that caused this. vaberella May 2012 #26

Troubled teens and the internet Alcibiades May 2012 #20

Conservatives make the world this way by promoting selfishness Evasporque May 2012 #23

If you click the link in the OP, then click the tiny avatars MineralMan May 2012 #28