Workplace bullying

Nonnie I consulted a solicitor specialising in Employment Law; unless you have the money and are prepared to lose, it's a non -starter.
I couldn't afford to even try, sadly.

Well Nonnie - I'm flabbergasted. After the thread you started about stress at work and the comments therein and now you say you were bullied and spent 6 weeks in hospital? What on earth do you think causes a lot of stress at work if not bullying?

I don't understand your question GT. It feels as if your are criticising me but I don't understand why. There are many reasons for workplace stress and bullying is only one. Overwork, poor work conditions, moaning from colleagues.................. and so on. Even not having enough to do could be stressful

Bumping because I would like to understand.

Teachers at a school near us made complaints about the bullying head teacher. While investigation was ongoing the HT resigned.
Recently, investigation finished by supporting the complaints and stating that there was a bullying culture at the school, caused by the HT.
I don't know if there is any effect on the retired HT but should think it is a relief to the teachers to have their complaints upheld.

I know a male primary Headteacher who actually struck a young pregnant member of staff. I was on secondment from this school at the time and I was told about it by several members of the staff, but only several months later, at my leaving do.

She, the victim, did not take action and neither did any other staff, including the female deputy. I wonder if she even told her husband.

I never did go back to that school as I was kept on permanently by the LEA

I am no longer a member of staff but have worked as an exams invigilator since retiring. A month ago I signed an online petition against proposed changes to my former school's admissions procedure (being an academy now they seem to be able to do this) and also wrote a very mild and not in the slightest defamatory tweet expressing my support for the local parents who were afraid their children might lose out to children from out of catchment with a particular talent (music).as I am a local resident I believed I had every right to hold and express an opinion, no? 2 days later I had an apologetic email from the Exams secretary saying how sorry she was but she had been asked(i.e told) not to employ me as an invigilator in future.

I worked in the same government department for 37 years prior to retirement. About 10 years before I retired we were told that our office was to be disbanded and we would have to go to other offices within the same dept. and re-train. A job came up on another floor which involved the work I was doing at the time so I volunteered as I didn't want to re-train and liked what I did. What a mistake! There were 4 other women on my section, one of which took an instant dislike to me. The problem was that they were overloaded with work so obviously an extra pair of hands meant that the work was getting back to people quicker and I got a fair bit of praise. This seemed to infuriate this woman (she was just one grade higher than me but not my boss). She did everything in her power to make me feel excluded and was even insulting at times. I had been there a week when I took a pre-planned week's holiday. When I returned to work she had erected a partition between my desk and hers saying 'your fast typing is getting on my nerves'. She would go out and buy bars of chocolate and hand them around. She threw mine over the partition! Why oh why didn't I throw it back? I was in a very difficult situation as she was very well 'in' with the bosses and if I had complained they would have said 'well it was OK until you came' so I had to soldier on. It was horrible. She eventually told one of the bosses she was in love with him and he was horrified. She rather smartly went on a 'career break' and was never seen again.