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Employers Gone Wild: U.S. military banishes rape victims with damning psychiatric diagnoses
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Women in the American military are raped by fellow sailors and soldiers (still want to call them all “heroes”?). Despite the Defense Department’s “zero tolerance” policy, 3,191 sexual assaults were reported in 2011, the estimated actual number is 19,000. The crime of rape is bad enough, but the employer of these women, the U.S. Army, compounded problems for the brave women who reported it by ending their careers.
It seems the military psychologists and psychiatrists blame the women for their plight (as the Medical Corps has done to troops suffering from PTSD). They use the technique of deliberately mis-applying the psychiatric diagnosis of personality disorder to rape victims. This labels the women with a “pre-existing condition” because the diagnosis requires onset of conditions during adolescence. Being branded with a PD renders the women ineligible for post-discharge medical, military and education benefits.
It’s double jeopardy for the women — employer puts you in harm’s way, gets you raped, then the employer ends your employment while promoting rapists. Sound familiar? It’s the same paradigm experienced by bullied targets who lose their jobs.
Tags: Coast Guard, Marines, personality disorder, rape myth, rape victim, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy
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Abolishing Unions Creates Humiliating, Bullying, Dehumanized Workplaces
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
During the winter of 2011 in Wisconsin thousands of workers protested the ALEC-inspired union-busting laws enacted by the Republican-controlled legislature and Gov. Walker (facing recall election in June, 2012). Without having to deal with constraints of union protections for workers’ rights, employers can reign without limit. This is not a theoretical idea.
The New Berlin Wisconsin school district administration, led by superintendent Joe Garza, was swift to promulgate new rules without the collaboration with the teachers union. Employers like Garza and his Board have no limits. So, they beat up their teachers to show who is in charge. Here are some examples of the changes imposed on the teachers (New Berlin Education Association).
Tags: Joe Garza, NBEA, New Berlin
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Workplace Bullying Institute Study: Why Workplace Bullying Happens
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
The results are in for the first online 2012 WBI Instant Poll, a single-question survey relying upon a self-selected sample of 658 individuals with experience being bullied at work. The question asked was: Why does bullying in the workplace happen? Respondents were free to choose up to 4 of the 12 listed causes or reasons. A total of 2,384 votes were recorded and analyzed. Here are the results.
Tags: reasons for bullying, WBI research
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HR says workplace bullying declining
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
SHRM, the Human Resources professional trade association, released results of a non-scientific workplace bullying survey based responses from 400 members on Feb. 28, 2012. Remember, the phenomenon is seen through the lens of HR staff. Here are the major findings to compare and contrast with the national scientific survey conducted of adult Americans, last done in 2010 by WBI.
Tags: HR, SHRM, workplace bullying
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Bad advice for Federal workers about bullying
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Attention all AFGE members. We love federal workers and write to warn you about lousy advice from Tom Fox (a VP of the Partnership for Public Service). Fox wrote about bullying in the Washington Post.
Fox’s advice is the same tired “you’re the target, so you have to fix it” approach.
Tags: AFGE, Partnership for Public Service, Tom Fox
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WBI Podcast 25: Comeback Lines, Fuggedaboutem
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Comeback Lines, Fuggedaboutem
Too often people who have never been bullied at work suggest that clever, pithy comeback lines are effective defenses against bullies. But targets are targets — if they could have, they would have used them. Then, targets unnecessarily feel guilty if they don’t use. The simplest of all lines is offered here. Finally, employers have to stop the bullying, not the people victimized by it!
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Tags: comeback lines, WBI Podcast
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Marlo Thomas on Bullying
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
The world of experts on student-age bullying is vast. At WBI, we stick to adults. Writing about school bullying for the Huffington Post, Marlo Thomas today wrote an essay which includes one of our major themes for 2012. She wrote
“This isn’t a case of “there are two sides to every argument.” There’s only one side to this conflict, and we all know who starts it.”
In other words, by making the bully’s needs equivalent to those of the target, to treat the bully’s lies as having as much credibility as the truth that belongs to targets, targets’ power is compromised. It creates the power imbalance needed for bullying to be effective, especially among coworkers who presumably have equal status at work.
Tags: false equivalence, Marlo Thomas
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Bullies at Work: Bushwhackers by Design
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
People targeted by bullies for humiliation and degrading treatment always get a head start because their initial attacks surprise targets. You may ask, always surprise? Yes, they get bushwhacked.
It’s explained by the stark contrast in worldviews and developed personalities of the two, bully and target.
Tags: help for targets, PTSD, verbal assault
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Gov’t Worker Guilty of Felony Stalking Coworker
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
This just in from Seattle KIRO-TV. A woman harassed a woman coworker to the extent that she invaded every aspect of her life away from work and threatened her children. The nutjob, Christina Orozco, was convicted of felony stalking. Stalking is clearly on the rise. Bullied targets are rarely believed. Victims of stalking are never believed — the cruelty borders on the unbelievable — but is very real in this public case. (Tip to a WBI newsletter subscriber.)
Tags: coworker bullying, stalking
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Modern Work and Bullying Are Not “Human Nature”
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
WBI colleague, Peter Schnall (editor of the definitive book, Unhealthy Work and founder of the Center for Social Epidemiology) regularly points out that normal human blood pressure is 100/60. Unfortunately, only people living outside the industrialized world enjoy such a healthy BP. We are told our “normal BP” is 120/80, but that’s an average, according to Schnall. Working in our hurried world accounts for the difference.
The informative longitudinal Whitehall studies that track coronary health, including ambulatory BP of British government workers for 40 years, reliably find that workdays differ from weekends and vacation days. Metabolism differs. Just showing up for work carries a set of health risks.
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Tags: blood pressure, Center for Social Epidemiology, dignitarian, Peter Schnall, stress, stress-related diseases
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