I think it depends a lot on the management of the organization. In a well-run organization, there's zero tolerance for that, because harassment is a signal of incompetence. It's a controlling style of management that signals to you....
This is not a soft issue. The issue is not that we shouldn't be nasty to people. The issue is that, when you see someone using a harassing style of management, you know that they're incompetent. You know that they cannot deliver the goods, because that's the style used by people in that situation.