Not a unique situation, it's community mobbing.
ElleMD, As I stated, I'm looking everywhere and anywhere for suggestions that I can use to end this harassment. If you were in this situation I'm sure you would not just sit and take it, you would want to do whatever you can (within reason) to make it stop, and you would want justice. There are things people can do such as making people aware of this situation to shed some light on this situation and maybe Congress will put an end to this. It's frustrating!
Some answers. First, the most likely reason you are being harassed on the job is that you work in EHS/Safety. I happen to work for EHS/Environmental, and yes, we see exactly the same kind of tactics used in our workplace (a very large government entity with many work sites).
So first off, the tactics used (color sensitization, for instance) are usually quite visible. To see this effect in action, I could post photos of our parking lots. A typical example (which I showed to our police chief today) is to have 4-6 RED vehicles all clustered together, or, to have a red and white vehicle together (sometimes also in clusters). Red is not that common of a color, representing just 12% of all cars of any color purchased in the last couple of years (the color fades and is a color that attracts police attention). In a parking lot, color distribution should be random because people do not choose colors to park next to (unless you are a member of this group of harassment-for-hire stalkers). Our parking lots also had (today) 3-6 light grey cars or white cars, all parked together (angle parking). Very easy to see, once you attune your eyes to look for the pattern.
Other tactics are not nearly so benign. They (revenge-for-hire, proxy stalkers) will hack your work phone and computer so that they can meddle optimally. Calls are not received, and your voice mail message may be redirected to an in-box belonging to someone else. Files go missing and your desk will be broken into and items removed, if locked. You are deliberately excluded from meetings and given many trivial items to attend to by others. Your food and beverage may be tampered with (drugs, diuretics, speed/PCP). Your office will be equipped with small microphones for covert eavesdropping. Office mates will deliberately come and go exactly when you do (in another building, the stalking staff will come out of the bathroom or nearby restroom at exactly the same time that I leave a meeting with their service chief. Ditto in our contracting unit, when meeting with my contracting officer, a nearby office mate of hers (she is also harassed heavily and now knows it) will just happen to come out of the bathroom, where they are no doubt listening in by cell phone (yes, there is an app for that, too). When out on campus, my vehicle is constantly cut off or passed by red vehicles AND pedestrians wearing red and red motorcycles, and more recently, our Fire Service vehicles, too.
We have full Service Chiefs whom are stalked/harassed (all, notably, are women, save one who is male - he will not discuss his harassment). Using pocket protector sized devices (mini microwave devices made from DVD laser modules), stalkers can hit at: eyes, ears, knees, instep of feet and shin bones, to cause pain or burning sensation. Larger devices can be set up with remote control (and yes, it's a cell phone app, again) on simple servo's to point-and-aim at (for instance) your desk seating, or the most common place you sit when in meetings. This is the so-called 'no-touch' or touchless weapons that you will find described on proxy stalker sites.
The largest versions are full fledged ground-penetrating radar devices, and they can be quite painful when aimed and funneled (using a cone concentrator) to a very narrow beam. Distance of operation can be hundreds of feet.
Who does it: revenge-for-hire firms, which can be found online. Are now global in scope and can be hired by subscription for as long as you are willing to pay, or until the victim either expires from inflicted damage or commits suicide. The International Drug-and-crime cartels appear to be washing money through these groups frequently these days. Groups used are most often the 'citizen militias, also called Sovereign Citizen Groups. They are anti-government/anti-regulations and very much anti-women and anti-religion (other than Christianity). Other websites offer similar services to stalk divorced 'exe's, and we think some subscribers may be former employers who fear reprisals from ex-staff. Police who are incorruptible are also on their hit list.
USDOJ is well aware of this alarming trend and have hundreds of thousands of cases on file that describe the methods and report various types of damages from harassment/group stalking campaigns.
Make no mistake, this is Organized Crime (RICO applies) and it's Domestic Terrorism.
That is why more than 100 law enforcement agencies now consider these Sovereign Citizen groups (who often have Tea Party affiliations) to be most dangerous terrorist threat in the US - they are ranked higher, for instance, than ISIS., for relative domestic terror tactic risk (including attack on public infrastructure, gassing and drugging of victims, and mass internet and phone hacking/ID theft).
Of note: this crime was first reported in the early 2000s in the Netherlands, when more than 10,000 individuals were nabbed in a large crime cartel ring, targeting judges, lawyers and politicians. The drug cartels were thought to be behind it; reports were published in criminology journals describing the Stasi-like methods employed.
So you can hang-up your reservations that this is just hooey. It's real, very very real, and it's now a global crime pattern.
The government is most often cited as the cause, but this is dysinformation to frame various agencies.