If you can’t take the stick . . .

Jobs shouldn't have inbuilt 'stick'. Some roles will have awkward customers/clients that go with the territory, but colleagues should offer support not add to the issues.

It sounds as though he should be sacked, or at the very least retrained.

is this a case of the old acronym, NFN, =normal for norfolk ?
i heard incoming GPs, docs, not grans, would often put it in notes, but not since patients can ask to see them ...
what does it really mean. how did it arise.
any examples ?

I’m not certain that Mr Lawson was the only one accused of bullying, but he was accused of “orchestrating” the abuse towards the town clerk and other members of the council, (many but not all of them, women).
It was his comment about ‘taking a lot more stick’ as part of the job and ‘if you can’t take it, you shouldn’t have joined’ that seems to sanction bullying and I think it an unacceptable attitude.

Why on earth has this chap been allowed to stay in post when a further eight people have resigned (or have I misread?)?

Bullying is not acceptable in the workplace or anywhere else. If someone is a repeated offender they should be sent on courses to teach them better ways to deal with people, and if that fails they should be sacked.

It is not easy to know if bullying is really what's happening, or if the complainer is using the accusation maliciously (or is just so sensitive that they perceive any disagreement or management of their performance as bullying), but when more than eight people have accused the same man (if that's the case) then action definitely needs to be taken.

Sadly when people don’t stand up to bullies and back away, all that’s left are bullies.

That's a lot of resignations from one town council.

It does look as if he's condoning bullying and no, he isn't right to do do.