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> I don't really know what the right course of action here is. But certainly 
> this kind of behaviour is unacceptable, and should not be legal.

This is exactly what has been happening in France with France Telecom (aka 
Orange). It took around 25 suicides (a guy even stabbed himself in the 
stomach during a meeting) for things to become public. It's been a matter a 
national debate in the past months and some corporate heads were cut. It's 
difficult to say if things are really going to change but at least the 
victims are no longer alone wondering what they did wrong.
In any case, it's really a matter of employees banding together, going 
public with this and making as much noise as possible. The harassement 
methods you describe are 100% identical to those used by FT (down to the 
people targeted by the bullying, i.e. senior engineers), so there's a 
precedent for it.

G.

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