Office Tormentors Appear Normal but Pack a Wallop

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For 10 years after she left a job working for a woman who used to humiliate her, Kim Potter, a claims manager at an insurance company, had nightmares.

After law school, she took a job at a law firm, working for a senior associate who called her "stupid" and "incompetent" and said things like, "Can't you get anything right?" In one nightmare, she was back at her old firm with her old boss. "She had me making the partners red beans and rice instead of doing legal work," she recalls.

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Office Tormentors Appear Normal but Pack a Wallop

Potter's nightmares about her former humiliatrix also had contours of fear unabated or vengeance never meted. Whenever Potter took a new job, she would dream that her former boss started working there, too, only to rise...

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