Workplace bullying is a nebulous phenomenon, grabbing onto its victims and sinking them into a dark and sticky pit of despair before they recognize they have fallen. Because currently, workplace bullying is legal, outside of protective class, within the United States, unlike most other industrialized nations, workplace abuse continues to sit outside the corporate conversation. Thus, when someone becomes a target of bullying - which I define as an attempt to denigrate a person’s character by dismantling her reputation through gossip, manipulation, sabotage, exclusion, ostracization, and gaslighting with the ultimate goal of pushing her out of a job - there is often a strong and immediate attempt to minimize and / or gaslight the target’s experience in order to escape culpability. Moreover, due to bystanders’ fear of being targeted next if they go to the victim’s aid, it is not usual for colleagues to turn a blind eye to abusive behavior, sometimes even joining in on the attacks.