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Bullying from coworkers My husband is 30 and developed a stutter out of nowhere at 26. We went to doctors and specialists, ruled out anything physically wrong, honestly they chalked it up to anxiety and a lot of stressors at the time. I don’t mind that he stutters, I know he can’t help it, and sometimes I know he has anxiety over talking so I’ll talk to people in his place. Recently he’s had some issues with an older woman at work. She just genuinely does not like him. She ended up yelling at him that, saying things like he’s a fat, lazy POS that stutters. He took that to his boss who basically said he would talk to her next week, and later said he can’t lose her, she’s the only one who knows her job…. Well, a couple weeks pass and my husband is still upset about the ordeal, she makes some sly comment again and my husband blows up calling her a “fucking bitch” — of course she goes to the boss and my husband gets called into the office and pulled off of work for that day. Boss was going to move him to a different department in the company, not the woman who started all the issues… anyway got that worked out and my husband realizes he shouldn’t have said what he did but I understand she’s attacking him on things he cannot help… boss is NOT handling this correctly IMO. It is not the first employee they’ve transferred because she can’t get along with them. Anyhow, there is now a new “nickname” going around the office for my husband that makes fun of his stutter. He didn’t know about it until someone slipped up. I’m hurt for him. Any advice? He loves his job, and if it weren’t for a couple guys who he considers good friends he said he would leave. It has become a very toxic work environment, and it’s a small company with no HR department. I don’t know what I’m trying to get out of this post, but I just feel for my husband who can’t help his stutter and these grown ass adults who are acting like children…. It costs $0 to be kind