Yes! I am experiencing it right now. I got hired on at the University of Arizona, where I had previously worked in another Department that was very professional. The Department that hired me on permanently was a totally different story. I shared an office with a woman who was talking, yelling, gossiping, and/or verbally tearing someone down every second of every day. I would just pray for her to shut up. I would have simply quit, but we are not affluent, we don't even have savings, and we really needed the health insurance. So, I reported it. I could not return to work because the retaliation was so bad. The girl that shares my office, along with a clique of about 9 people, made my life a living hell. I was so nervous everyday, I hated going to work. The investigation is still going on. How it will end is anybodies guess. I'm hoping they simply put me in another Department, since I have proven that I'm a good, reliable employee. I simply cannot go back into that small office, where I am one foot away from that person who called me "Trash!", and racial slurs like, "Wetta" and "Cracker". It's a wonder I got any work done while in that office! At least I don't have to be there for now. I'm on paid Administrative leave while the investigation is going on. I am 45 years old and this is the first I've run across this kind of behavior in an office. So, either I'm real lucky, or it's not the norm, Thank God!
Linda Carmichael