🧠 What Is “Mobbing”?
Mobbing is a form of group harassment where several people, often within a workplace or community, band together to isolate, discredit, or expel one person.
It isn’t one loud act – it’s a slow, coordinated campaign that looks like:
- Spreading rumors and false complaints
- Social exclusion or forced isolation
- Attacks on credibility (“She’s difficult,” “She’s unstable,” “She’s combative”)
- Abuse of procedures or policies to justify mistreatment
- Emotional and psychological harm designed to make the target quit or break down
It’s recognized in organizational psychology as collective bullying. In condos, workplaces, or schools, it follows the same script: the mob convinces itself the victim “deserves it.”
🧩 How It Applied to My Case
Everything that defines mobbing happened to me inside this community.
- Rumors and False Narratives: They fabricated “multiple complaints” about barking dogs – proven false by the CAT.
- Public Shaming: They sent a 3-page community-wide letter portraying me as a rule-breaker, even after legal rulings in my favor.
- Abuse of Power: Directors used corporate instruments (letters, lawyers, “code of ethics,” by-laws) to punish me for asserting my rights.
- Collective Denial: Instead of questioning the abuse, many owners looked away or joined the chorus, blaming the victim because it was easier than confronting the truth.
- Retaliation and Isolation: When I stood up, they stripped access, restricted forums, and portrayed me as the problem. That’s classic mobbing – institutionalized cruelty disguised as governance.
💔 The Human Cost
Mobbing doesn’t just bruise reputations – it destroys health, trust, and safety.
It caused me measurable harm: emotional distress, anxiety.
They weaponized community mechanisms – not to protect, but to punish.
🚨 Why It Matters to You
When a mob succeeds once, it becomes the culture.
Tomorrow, it won’t be me. It’ll be the next person who asks a question, requests transparency, or challenges authority.
Mobbing thrives in silence. It ends when people stop confusing cruelty for order and start recognizing patterns of abuse.
