Nope I’m back. I got bullied at my work place just up the road from where I live, last year. Tesco express but I started there when I was 22 and it was a one stop. Worked with a man that was shiftleading same as me, and really wanted everyone to kind of think he was the best you could get. Volunteered for St. John’s etc.. and I had a lot of time for him. And then that changed when they put up a competition vote box in the kitchen for staff to vote for the best shift leader. Basically he opened the box while on a break with a young lad that worked on the till, cos the box wasn’t sealed! And I more votes, which was the overall start of the entire thing. A boy I worked with late on an evening started playing up for me and making my shifts harder, subsequently making my shop closure a bit late. It came out that the other SL had started spreading stuff around and even stated to the lads parents on his shift close evening, when the lads parents had came in to pick him up that I was a concern as I was an alcoholic mess etc... from that point, things grew worse, and it spiraled... People that I had known in my local community, people I had worked with, everybody had started dropping like flies. I went and spoke to my store manager, personnel and arranged all sorts of grievance meetings. They sent to other store managers, one of which, I later realised was mates with the bully. Cut a long story short. He had a previous complaint made and was moved stores due to an issue with a female manager, and after his interview about my claim he resigned from Tesco. Basically, my claims against him were very serious, and actually could be backed up, so he jumped voluntarily as advised by his mate! I however left a couple of weeks later, as I couldn’t cope with the other members of staff that had it in for me, and who me I had known for years. Even the union rep, That was a till operator Made my life hell. Three of them that had it in for me were over 55! I had always been able to handle myself but I can’t handle mind games. I don’t like being lied about, and not having the opportunity to reply. I’m my community, everyone gossips. I have zero friends now. The latest lie that I heard on the grapevine was that I took cocaine. So from alcoholic to junkie. I lost 3 stone in weight through it and my views on everything has changed. The bully as mentioned, volunteered for St. John’s ambulance you see. And everyone has hailed him a hero of late due to the virus etc... the good man etc.. not just that but I look at everyone I used to know now and think, What two faced twats, and what a waste of my life it has been, when everything I had known was a lie.. 43 and I have no one at all I trust, zero. I have 2 contacts on my phone. My hatred for certain things is trapped inside me, and even my partner after my disagreeance with a view on something the other night shocked him.. he said to me “ I wouldn’t say that in public Kelly cos you will get a back lash from people! “. And he’s right actually my opinions on lots of stuff now isn’t socially except able, And I see the world a lot differently, but have been trying to start my own blog sort of thing of my own, where I can say what I want, like it or lump, and not agree with every one else’s opinions. That is why I have been starting threads etc.. on here as I’m not totally sure on how to operate this site now!