DEAR ERIC: I’m 75 and I have a problem I’ve dealt with for a long time. It has to do with bullies. In school I had fists shaken in my face, I was laughed at because I was skinny, shy and had bad pimples. I couldn’t wait to leave school each day.

At a very large company I did well professionally, however, the bullying never stopped. It consisted of people talking over me at meetings or one-on-one, laughing when I walked through an area. At one point management tried to make me supervisor over four people. One member was loud, outspoken, a bully and would make fun of everyone.

To this day, I relive all the times I walked away from or endured bad treatment. I’ll never see them again, but the events still play in my head now and then. Since then, I’ve learned that they or their wives each ha

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