Common Abuse Tactics by the Serial Bully at toxic Worksites

Serial Bully  Abuse Tactics within an Organizations   

They  recruit management and any other member within the organization  to do his bidding. He will use  them to tempt, convince, communicate, threaten, and otherwise manipulate his target, within the abuse triangle. He controls the   gullible and unsuspecting by various means. Once he has ‘scored’ the desired political points these By-Standers now cooperate in his abusive agendas.

They are  used as bargaining chips or leverage. This is Abuse by Proxy.  A common tactic used is that they (now a minion) are instructed and encouraged by the abuser to shun the victim, (the scapegoat), criticize  and inflict on them  various forms of ambient (covert) or overt abuse.

Life is a game to him. A prime motivator running through his life is to see how much he can get away with.  

The victim's prey  are those that are emotional dependent in some way on him. They are  easily amenable to his  considerable charm, persuasiveness, and manipulativeness.  He can easily and does offer a plausible rendition of the events and interprets them to his favor. The victims are only driven more "crazy" which is exactly the covert abuser goal.


When a third party is asked to judge ‘mental fitness’ between a polished, self-controlled, and suave abuser and his harried casualties  the most common assessment is that the victim is the abuser and hence the phenomena of ‘blame the victim’, or that both parties abuse each other equally. The prey's acts of self-defense, assertiveness, or insistence on her rights are interpreted as aggression, liability, or that they obviously have a mental health problem”. The victim is viewed as the ‘first cause’ of the behaviorally chain of events that ‘caused the abuser to abuse’.  


He attempts to perverts all the relational systems their victims come in contact with- therapists, marriage counselors, mediators, court-appointed guardians, police officers, and judges.
He tries very hard to recruit them to pathologicalize the victim as well. The fear of course is to prevent empowerment of the victim. His manipulative/ abusive power game is up if he is ever exposed and rejected. This is of course his greatest fear.    


Abusers like him are insatiable and vindictive. They always feel deprived and unfairly treated. They always have core paranoid and sadistic elements.  If he fails to continue to be successful in his  manipulation of  his children , the emotional immature, those 'suckers' in his 'camp' into abusing by proxy  he will quickly turn on them and become aggressive and target them as enemies as well in order to get back control and superiority.

A two headed snake who's only interest is to slitter up  the organizational chart, reserving his aggression and brutality for the persons below him.  They  will defame the reputation of the targets below them  to boost their own self-image and ego.  They will spread rumors and engineer "divide and conquer" schemes within the work teams  to try to turn workers against each other. Their version of events is always believed in when  the targets perspective is always dismissed,  discounted.

They are the gatekeepers obsessed with control. He has now controls the information and staffing to ensure the team's failure. His only  interest is  ensuring he maximizes his self-serving interest of optimizing his overtime.

Further Characteristics:

·         Various use of Abuse of power tactics.

·         Disrupt and destroys historical loyalties.

·         "Baits" through provocative behaviours.

·         Blame the victim through fabrication of the facts.

·         He is encouraging the employer and employee to engage in adversarial interactions and destructive conflict in which there will be no winner’s, only losers.

·         He gains gratification for manipulating then watching others destroy each other.

·         Compulsive lying, frequent use of charm to gain plausibility.

·         Professional blackmail. Has likely gathered facts / liabilities on the doctors that he can use against them or threaten them if he needs to.

·         Once conflict has been initiated, he  gains increased gratification by exploiting individuals instinctive need to defend themselves which he then can label ‘harassment’ now against himself, gain supporters for his version of reality and them justify further abuse of power to control those ‘individuals that are now out of control”.  Classic blame the victim.

·         Adept at reflecting all accusations and attempts at accountability back onto his accusers.

·         Exploits everyone who has vulnerability.

·         Creates an environment where levels of denial are so great that those involved are oblivious of their denials when presented with the facts.

·         This type of Bully’s leaves behind them a trail of dysfunctional organizations.

·         One would likely find that he has a history of such behaviors in other worksites

·         Overly friendly with new targets, overly helpful. Uses flattery to keep people in authority on his side.

·         Supported by line manager.

·         He’s overconfident because he fully expects to get away with his behavior.

·         Gains gratification from encouraging intergroup strife.

·         There is increasing employer liabilities for his behavior.

·         Recruitment of supporters (now dependents) through favoritism.

·         Gains gratification from provocations of others into emotional irrational responses but is then quick to claim he has been provoked by others when challenged.

·         When challenged, he fabricates.

·         Poorly defined moral and ethical boundaries.

·         Fuelled only by self-interest, hiding behind the employer.

·         Uses inappropriate and unprofessional sarcasm.

·         Unwilling to conform to the nurse’s code of conduct and professional practice standards.

·         Becomes very indignant, especially when challenged.

·         Charming, especially those who are capable of protecting or enhancing his political position on the unit.

·         Excels in evasion of accountability.

·         He work very hard, at being the gatekeeper of information on the unit.

·         Gives perks and privileges to the politically weak, particularly those with little experience, on the unit by offering them positions of power and influence. Now they will have to pay off this debt to him.

·         Quickly has identified those individuals essential to his survival on the unit and then began to manipulate them and making them feel special and thus obliged to reciprocate when support and protection is required.

·         Has successfully manipulated our doctors,  one in particular into covering for him to the point where now she is unwilling or unable to expose him, has  increasingly become trapped as a pawn  in his overall abuse strategy.

·         Creates an environment with a level of denial is so great that those involved are oblivious when presented with the self-evident facts.

·         Leaves behind a trail of dysfunctional units.

·         Skillful at identifying, undermining, discrediting, neutralizing and destroying anyone who directly challenges him.

·         Easily manipulated unit manager to acting as an agent of harassment for his own vendettas.

·         Gains gratification provoking others into engaging in adversarial conflicts.

·         Once conflict has been initiated, he gains increased gratification by exploiting individual’s instincts in their need to retaliate; this is achieved by encouraging and escalating people’s adversarial conflict to mutually assured destruction.

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