Archive for the ‘Target Tale’ Category
The Courage to Face Workplace Bullying Demons
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Are bullies demons? Bully apologists abhor “demonizing” abusers in the workplace. What’s the alternative? Revere them. Thank them for showing us how loathsome and dark can be the human condition? Ignore their cruelty foisted on the best and brightest workers whose principal goal of every day is to be “left alone” to do their jobs? Of course, that’s exactly what bully apologists do. We think they stand on the wrong side of the moral fence.
We at WBI are target-centric. We’ve chosen the other side. We didn’t start the U.S. Workplace Bullying movement to treat it as an academic exercise in neutrality. Targets deserve and need support. Institutions do a fine job of defending perpetrators.
Tags: bullies, courage, coworkers, demons, EFT, EMDR, evil, Gary Namie, Ruth Namie, witnesses, workplace bullying
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Office Mean Girl: Memories of a Workplace Bully
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
By FlourishAnyway
Link to FlourishAnyway’s HubPage
The loud laugh was unmistakable. I heard the voice of my bully in a department store as she rifled through sales racks with her son. Although her back was turned towards me, spotting her took me back to that awful place five years earlier.
The Dream Job — With One Small Catch
Since I was a child, I yearned to work for a particular Fortune 500 company that is well respected in my community. When I scored a job in their Human Resources (HR) department, I believed it was a dream fulfilled. However, HR has bullies, too. What I didn’t know when I signed on was that my coworker, “Betty,” had a track record of tormenting coworkers whom she found threatening. Worse yet was that she seemed to have management’s consent. Betty had chased my predecessor off in less than a year using petty personal attacks and uncooperativeness. I was simply next in line.
Tags: flourishanyway, target story, workplace bullying
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Exiled NYC Science Teacher Strikes Back Against Workplace Bullying
Friday, March 1st, 2013
At a video shoot in New York City this week, I met an extraordinary man. Francesco Portelos, a highly paid engineer, switched careers to middle school teaching for the love of teaching kids at great expense to his young family. He is a skilled man who taught youngsters to accomplish technological goals believed to be undoable by lesser-skilled teachers. The woman principal at his Staten Island school, Linda Hill, couldn’t stand the young professional’s passion for making the school better (true reform of education vs. faux reform aka privatization). She banished him to a room in a basement 20 miles from his school and students. This is the old “rubber room” tactic no longer permitted, except that it is done. Ironically, to support her campaign of hate, Francesco draws his salary and serves as his union’s (UFT) representative from exile. He maintains an informative website and video streams his “doing nothing.” Free Portelos to be productive again. He wants to earn his salary. His kids miss him. The poor-performing, low-ranked school needs him. Free him.
Francesco (far left) tells his story at 20:40 on the timeline in the video below.
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Tags: Francesco Portelos, Gary Namie, NY Schools, rubber room, teacher in exile, workplace bullying
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Support Groups for Workplace Bullying Targets in Seattle Area
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
WBI's Professional Coach & Licensed Psychotherapist, Jessi Eden Brown, will be offering support groups starting in February. This resource is designed for current and former targets of workplace bullying. Participants receive support and ideas from fellow group members, as well as expert advice from Jessi on how to address specific bullying situations and cope with the aftermath of being targeted. Groups will be held at Jessi's private practice in North Seattle. If you're interested, please email Jessi Eden Brown to find out more.
Tags: Bully at Work, counseling, Jessi Eden Brown, PTSD, support group, therapist, therapy, workplace bullying
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Susan: A survivor of workplace bullying
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Reporter Angie Goff of NBC4 in Washington, DC interviews Susan, a bullying veteran
Tags: Angie Goff, Gary Namie, Healthy Workplace Bill, Susan Rae Baker, target tale, workplace bullying, workplace bullying laws
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BBW: Taming the workplace bully
Monday, November 26th, 2012
Taming the Workplace Bully, By Adam Piore, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, November 21, 2012
It started during the training sessions for her new job. Elizabeth Santeramo, a cancer information specialist in New York, saw a woman across the room glance in her direction, whisper in the ear of a co-worker, and then snort derisively. The episode seemed so brazenly immature, as if plucked directly from Mean Girls, that Santeramo shrugged it off. “The work we were doing was to help people who were just diagnosed with cancer,” she says. “We’re all empathic, compassionate people, I told myself. I’m just being paranoid.” A few days later, the abusive snickering intensified.
Tags: bullied target, David Yamada, Gary Namie, Workplace Bullying Institute
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Let’s Talk with Kalola: Music Teacher
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
Let’s Talk with Kalola, where targets can share their experiences with WBI’s blog readers. Here we go!
(more…)Tags: Kalola, let's talk, target stories, workplace bullying
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Susan Rae Baker supports WBI and Healthy Workplace Bill, 9 of 9
Sunday, October 21st, 2012
Susan Rae Baker, Life and Business Coach, supports WBI, Healthy Workplace Bill, and Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week, National Press Club, Oct. 15, 2012. Baker tells her personal story.
Presenters Roster: Namie | Shelton | Henry | Holway & Sorozan | McNeill | Bethel | Cooke | Dias | Baker
Tags: Freedom from workplace bullies week, Healthy Workplace Bill, Susan Rae Baker, WBI
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Neal Dias supports WBI and Healthy Workplace Bill, 8 of 9
Sunday, October 21st, 2012
Neal Dias, Verizon-displaced bullied target, supports WBI, Healthy Workplace Bill, and Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week, National Press Club, Oct. 15, 2012. Dias tells his personal story.
Presenters Roster: Namie | Shelton | Henry | Holway & Sorozan | McNeill | Bethel | Cooke | Dias | Baker
Tags: Freedom from workplace bullies week, Healthy Workplace Bill, Neal Dias, Verizon, WBI
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Lana Cooke supports WBI and Healthy Workplace Bill, 7 of 9
Sunday, October 21st, 2012
Lana Cooke supports WBI, Healthy Workplace Bill, and Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week, National Press Club, Oct. 15, 2012. Cooke is one of the West Virginia HWB State Coordinators.
Presenters Roster: Namie | Shelton | Henry | Holway & Sorozan | McNeill | Bethel | Cooke | Dias | Baker
Lana’s husband describes the bullying experience from his perspective.
Tags: Ernie Cooke, Freedom from workplace bullies week, Healthy Workplace Bill, Lana Cooke, spouses and bullying, Virginia Healthy Workplace Advocates, WBI
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