>>68946301Honestly this all screams bad HR/Pr To me and lack of experts.
Bullying shouldn’t even get to the point it did. Usually it starts with someone being an “outsider”. Maybe they don’t watch the same tv shows, maybe they’re new to the town so they dont know the inside jokes, etc.
The outsider burns out from feeling a lack of common ground/ or gets excluded from something because insiders figured “well, outsider wouldn’t like the thing we’re doing anyway”, and they begin acting avoidant, kinda like “im here to do my job not make friends”.
Then the not-outsiders see the sudden standoffishness as the outsider hating them. They start acting different too. Maybe it starts with one person noticing the difference and consults the other friend wondering “does outsider just hate me? Or is everyone else also feeling it”.
Resentment grows til a non bullshit person confronts the avoidant outsider in a really rude way, and makes the situation worse. Something like ”what, you think you’re better than us or something?”. Outsider would confront HR now who would translate the issue between both parties, explaining neither side really hates the other, it’s just a collection of overthinking/resentment and fucking do something for everyone.
Instead what probably happened is that the person who would be in charge was like.. you know that lazy parent who asks the eldest kid to discipline the younger ones? So the manager asked another liver to do it instead (Elira, Vox/Ike). That! Or the manager just victim blamed the victim because they fucking suck at their job.
It’s probably a mess of all of the above.
