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She came back and said that they had a contingency plan in place and wouldn't be requiring a resource. She didn't notice me, she was so worried. She looked extremely stressed and to me, worried that she'd be bullied into giving a resource which we didn't have. I got up from my desk and met my boss making her way back to my desk. She then went over to the individual who requested our resource and his supervisor and spent a good 10-15 minutes explaining we'd no resource. My manager told my colleague that she was invited to a meeting on the project. Shortly afterward, they left the department head. Two minutes later, he and his manager were over chatting with the department head, trying to persuade her to force my boss to give up a resource to work on the project, thus leaving the rest of the team struggling to meet deadlines. She spent several minutes explaining to this person we don't have a resource to give at present. Today, an individual on another team came over to her this morning, asking for an individual to work on a project. In the past, I've noticed and some of my colleague's scenarios where she's been bullied but is too afraid to stand up for herself. My boss is five months pregnant and is very nice. As such, it is important for individuals who are responsible for preventing bullying to take into consideration a bully's own position in the social hierarchy and whether he himself has been the target of negative behavior.
This type of bully victim may have a particularly difficult time receiving assistance if authority figures, such as teachers, focus mainly on his own acts of aggression rather than his experience of being bullied by others. Both the bullying and victimization may therefore be symptoms of the victim's own lack of social skills and understanding of appropriate social relationships. Some experts believe that both victims of bullying and bullies themselves often have poor social skills and have difficulty negotiating social relationships in a healthy way.
When the term bully victim is used to describe someone who is both a bully and a victim of bullying, it typically describes a child or adult who experiences bullying and, out of stress or frustration, engages in similar behavior toward others. Bullying victims often suffer from low self-esteem.