Charliene McWeeny
Staff Writer

Everyone can probably still remember the people who took lunch money, threatened, and locked others in the lockers in high school. Many think that walk out those 2 main door graduation day will be the end of the torment and bullying, but what some don’t realize is that it doesn’t just stop there.

Once people graduate from high school and move onto working in bigger and better places. What they find is the same exact thing they were trying to leave behind. Co-worker retaliation is a type of competitive strategy that eliminates the competitors within the work place.

What retaliation can cause is fear and it shows the immaturity that many people still suffer from. The reason people retaliate is usually after getting caught red handed at something everyone knows they should’ve been doing. So in order to protect their reputation they retaliate to find a way out and many times it’s a ploy that could potentially get the other person fired.

Or at least stuck in a bad place in the boss’s opinion of them. While the retaliator or in a sense the “bully” gets off by looking good and in certain cases getting a raise or a promotion because their co-worker is afraid to speak up about the incident that occurred.

In the future if someone happens to be doing something wrong at work and someone speaks out about it and retracts their statement and there’s suspicion about one retaliating. Never let the retaliator intimidate in anyway they’ll keep retaliating knowing that it’ll work. The only way to stop it is to speak up.