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[quote=Anonymous]I feel like I'm in a terrible spot.  I work for the federal government in a somewhat dysfunctional office environment.  I've been with the government for about 10 years but I am young for the federal workforce.  I'm relatively new to this agency.  I have a colleague that is at the same level as me on my team but is significantly older.  When I started he did not get along well with a coworker who has since left and took on tactics to belittle the coworker and decrease my coworker's credibility.  Since that coworker left the bully has directed his attention toward me.  Most of what he does is very subtle and hard to elaborate on.  But every now and then he takes actions that are more overt.  He will do things like not talk to me for several weeks because my boss is giving me a project that he wanted to work on, confront me with something minor and call me a liar when I explain the situation, make faces about when I say things and meetings.  We recently had a run in that left me very uneasy because I felt like he was attacking me.  Nobody was around to hear it which made me even more uncomfortable.

I reported incidents to my boss in the past and I think my boss has talk to him about this however all my boss really seems to tell me to do is to continue to documenting the situation.  I started to look for new work and I'm frustrated that this is the action that I have to take because I really like my agency.  but I don't see this person leaving anytime soon.  I also don't see his behavior improving because anytime I reported anything to my Boss my colleague retaliates more the next time.  I also don't want to be viewed as a difficult coworker and this situation makes it hard for me to assert myself in other areas.    [/quote]

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