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Old Jul 12, 2017, 02:17 AM
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Originally Posted by leomama View Post
https://letmereach.com/2014/02/17/se...es-of-smeared/

How do you think someone would respond to a smear campaign if they didn't have complex ptsd?

For me whether it's at work or in my personal life, when I find out someone has painted me in a negative light to other people behind my back I feel furious.

I wonder what a normal reaction to that would be. What do you think?
About 11 years ago, about a year after I started at my current job, I had a very bad situation with a co-worker who had a habit of dumping stuff on me so that she could take long lunches, leave early (she was salary), go talk for an hour with her boyfriend, stuff like that. I finally put my foot down one day and told her no, this is your job, you do it, I have my own job and have been working overtime just to keep from getting too far behind. She filed a complaint with the division director, who after discussing the situation with us both in her office basically backed me on it. That began months of her talking crap about me to several other people on the team. I knew they were doing it, because I had people tell me about it and, when I walked by them while they were all talking, they would suddenly stop. It was a really bad time. I started having panic attacks at work and started taking different routes to the break room or storage room so I didn't have to walk by them. It got to the point where I told my supervisor that I was looking for another job because of what was going on. That made her take action and she of must of told the director who must of talked to the gossiping witches and it finally stopped. The one who started it moved to another position, and I still work with two of the others. Don't trust either one of them at all.

So for me, yes I get furious, but I also hide that and tend to isolate myself. Luckily, this hasn't happened again.
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Thanks for this!
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