CITY OF FORT BRAGG
ANTI-BULLYING POLICY
September 26, 2022
6 WOUNDED IN SHOOTOUT AT
RIVERSIDE CITY HALL
BYTOM GORMAN
OCT. 7, 1998 12 AM PT
LOS ANGELES TIMES STAFF WRITER
RIVERSIDE — Six people were wounded
Tuesday morning, including the mayor and two
City Council members, after a dismissed
recreation department chess coach opened fire
with a handgun in a City Hall conference room
and was finally shot by police in a terrifying
close-quarters gun battle.
BUSINESS NEWS
Postal worker’s mother says he was
bullied before shooting
October 14, 2021 6:06 pm
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A U.S. Postal Service
letter carrier who shot a manager and a supervisor
before killing himself inside a Tennessee postal
facility was not a violent person and was being
bullied at work by his superiors, his mother said
Thursday.
PROTECTING AMERICA’S SCHOOLS
A U.S. SECRET SERVICE ANALYSIS OF
TARGETED SCHOOL VIOLENCE
Finding
Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted or
injured by others prior to the attack.
Explanation
Almost three-quarters of the attackers felt
persecuted, bullied, threatened, attacked or
injured by others prior to the incident (Page
21)
Release Date: October 15, 2020
Workplace bullying—a form of workplace violence—is repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more people (targets) .
Bullying can impact a victim’s physical and emotional health, morale, overall productivity, and potentially, their finances. Workplace bullies seek to induce harm, jeopardize another person’s career, and destroy interpersonal relations. Here are some typical tactics workplace bullies may use against their victims:
Character assassination
Disrespectful, destructive interpersonal conduct
Work interference, preventing targets from performing their jobs Social exclusion of targets
Exploitation of targets through abuse of management roles Personal criticisms that humiliate and shame
OCTOBER IS BULLYING
PREVENTION MONTH
DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND
SECURITY
ACTUAL EXAMPLES OF BULLYING
CITY EMPLOYEES
March 10, 2021 Email
Your work is controversial because so far it has been of such low quality… In particular the terrible first impression that ..was based on the….staff report and presentation. If your work was of higher quality and the public had reason to trust your accuracy…
July 27, 2021 Email
I … don’t understand why anyone thought hiring her in the first place was a good idea….why is she still employed as a XXXXX despite her lack of competent work, frequent unprofessional conduct… XXXXXX continued employment ..is undermining … public trust in the City as a whole.
October 13, 2020 Email
XXXXXX comment was particularly ridiculous… You might be interested to know she pissed off your boss by being your front … of course, XXXXXX may be petty too….. XXXXX complaining about your passive aggressive BS at work …and how she considered firing you.
ACTUAL EXAMPLES OF BULLYING
CITY EMPLOYEES
August 13, 2022 Email
I have a suggestion of what might serve the community better, which is our XXXXX to look into a stress-related retirement. If a job is too stressful for an employee (e.g. because they both lack the basic skills and experience to perform the job…. That seems a lot better option for everyone involved compared to the employer worrying that the stressed staff person could buckle under the pressure…
July 25, 2022 Email
Who is harmed by this apparently negligent planning work …I suspect this is another example of our unqualified planning staff failing…
ACTUAL EXAMPLES OF BULLYING
CITY EMPLOYEES
August 6, 2022
City Manager Peggy Ducey asked for clarification
on a public comment for the City Council meeting:
“Staff’s opinion or responses to my personal
opinions submitted in the form of formal public
comments to the City Council or Planning
Commission is not particularly interesting to me so
there is no need to respond…”