I'd still very much like to murder (hopefully with a very heavy chairleg or something) the former Head of Systems/IT in our Department who actively bullied me for the best part of 4 years in the mid Nineties.
And seriously maim all the management level people (one or two still here) who regularly drank with him in the pub throughout, and (on one occasion) advised me to 'just ignore him'

x 20 zillion!!!
Collaborators with bullies/target or victim-blamers are TOTAL CUNTS. No exceptions. Wherever they may be ...
Bullies only get away with what they do through having a claque of cheerleaders.
Trouble is, said psycho (and he WAS! no lie ... ) is in the States now, and I don't fancy lethal injections or life in a Yank prison ...
Just have to comfort myself with having been able to rewrite the bullying and harassment policy (with Union help -- I was a rep at the time) for my place of employment. This was after Psycho left, unfortunately, but I still occasionally think how much the book would have been thrown at him had the policy been operational when still here. Immediate sacking, probably -- threatening people (ie me) with serious violence in the pub definitely became covered by the new policy -- I made sure of that. Union Head Office helped wme with the wording ---
UNIONS ARE COOL -- MANAGEMENT ARE TWATS (although to be fair the Personnel people accepted almost all of the new policy with only minor technical objections re exact wording, which we sorted out no probs.)
Biggest regret was only taking six weeks out for distress/depression in 1998. Should have been six months ... over a summer
(but also

-- I was REALLY down at the time, although having the woman I fancied insanely at the time going out with my best mate didn't help in the slightest. All that's turned out for the best since though)
Another good thing is that after all that, mere average-level incompetence/pomposity/annoyingness by present colleagues is a doddle to tolerate or deal with
