Incidents construed as workplace harassment queensland can involve anything from a mild form of abuse to an outright aggressive form.  These include the following things: a repeated ridiculing or needling, abusing, or humiliating a worker in front of other workers, offensive phone calls or email, excluding a worker from group activities purposely, petty criticism or spreading gossip, sabotaging the work of an employee to get them into trouble, or gestures that debase a worker in front of others.  Any form of offending, threatening, humiliating, or intimidating an employee and causing them to perform their duties less efficiently as a result indicates workplace harassment according to Queensland law.