Posts Tagged ‘Kevin Morrissey’
Sister of deceased journal editor to speak on workplace bullying
Friday, April 29th, 2011
By Daniel de Vise, The Washington Post, , April 29, 2011
Maria Morrissey, sister of deceased literary journal editor Kevin Morrissey, will speak next week at a news conference in support of New York legislation on workplace bullying.
Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, Kevin Morrissey, Maria Morrissey, New York, Sen Diane Savino, worklace bullying
Posted in Bullying in the News, Legislative Campaign | 9 Comments »
UVa Report after Morrissey suicide – No negatives for boss Genoways
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Kevin Morrissey’s July 30 suicide near the campus of the University of Virginia where he worked set off a national uproar. His surviving sister, Maria, who had contacted WBI, called the boss Ted Genoways a bully who had tormented her brother for 3 years. Here at WBI, we didn’t care about branding Genoways and never did. Instead, we believed the employer was negligent in light of their failure to respond to numerous informal complaints Morrissey and others had made to various institutional offices including the President’s office and HR. Apologists rushed to Genoways defense. The internal audit (investigation?) report was filed on Oct. 20. Let’s take a look inside and decipher hidden meanings.
Tags: Dave McNair, Kevin Morrissey, Ted Genoways, the Hook, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Social Justice | 5 Comments »
Suicides indicate society’s emotional meltdown
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Japan has always had one of the highest suicide rates in the world — 12 straight years with over 30,000 suicides per year. The role of personal shame in the culture can partly explain the choice made by so many. However, the recent economic recession is driving up the number of suicides. In the Sept. 7 BBC report was a remarkable quote from Naoto Kan, Japanese Prime Minister, that “decreasing suicides would be one way to build a society with a minimum level of unhappiness.” The PM believes that suicide proves that too many people are suffering economically and emotionally. A study found that the economy suffers a $32 billion loss from suicides.
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Tags: Annie Lowrey, Foxconn, japan, Jodie Zebell, Kevin Morrissey, Marlene Braun, Naoto Kan, Omar Thornton
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Social Justice | 7 Comments »
Journalism ethics professor trivializes Univ of Virginia story
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Ed Wasserman was a reporter and is now a professor of journalism ethics at Washington & Lee University. He opined in his Aug. 29 newspaper column on the media about the Kevin Morrissey suicide story at the University of Virginia that would not have been a story without the “tilt of coverage toward this hot new social malady” (thanks for the back-handed compliment about awareness about workplace bullying).
Tags: Edward Wasserman, Kevin Morrissey, suicide, Ted Genoways, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review, VQR, Washington & Lee, workplace bullying
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction | 4 Comments »
Morrissey suicide story on Today Show
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
On Monday Aug. 23, the NBC-TV Today Show aired an interview with Maria Morrissey, sister of Kevin Morrissey who committed suicide on July 30 in Charlottesville, VA in connection with his job at the Virginia Quarterly Review on the campus of the University of Virginia. Also interviewed was Morrissey’s co-worker, Waldo Jaquith. For the most details about the story, read The Hook article.
Tags: Kevin Morrissey, Maria Morrissey, NBC-TV, Ted Genoways, the Hook, Today Show, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review, workplace bullying
Posted in Announcements, Bullying in the News | 6 Comments »
More on Morrissey, UVa employee suicide
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Virginia Public Radio reporter Sandy Hausman interviewed Maria Morrissey, sister of suicide victim Kevin Morrissey, Dr. Gary Namie – WBI Director, and Ted Genoways attorney Snook for Aug. 23, 2010 report.
Read this Aug. 23 article: “The Rise and Fall of Ted Genoways” by the editor of ZYZZYVASPEAKS, a journal of West Coast writers & authors
Tags: Gary Namie, Kevin Morrissey, Maria Morrissey, Snook, Ted Genoways, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review
Posted in Bullying in the News, Employer Action/Inaction, Media | Post a Comment »
Kevin Morrissey suicide update
Friday, August 20th, 2010
The most detailed account of events at the University of Virginia that led up to Kevin Morrissey’s suicide can be found in the Charlottesville newspaper, The Hook:
Tale of Woe: The death of Kevin Morrissey by Dave McNair, August 18, 2010
Take time to read the several comments, including mine.
Tags: Casteen, Kevin Morrissey, Maria Morrissey, suicide, Sullivan, Ted Genoways, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review, VQR, workplace bullying
Posted in Bullying in the News, Employer Action/Inaction | 1 Comment »
Depression or alleged bully boss prompt suicide?
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
ABC News coverage of the Kevin Morrissey suicide at the University of Virginia asks the question.
Tags: Kevin Morrissey, Ted Genoways, University of Virginia, VQR
Posted in Bullying in the News, Employer Action/Inaction | 3 Comments »
University suicide points to nonreponsive employer
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Ted Genoways, VQR editor accused of bullying by suicide victim
At universities, people tend to think of teaching and research faculty and staff as the only employees. At the University of Virginia, the president supports a literary journal, the Virginia Quarterly Review, prestigious to poets and fiction writers. Kevin Morrissey, 52, the VQR managing editor had been hired by a young Ted Genoways, 38, new himself to the editor post in 2003.
On July 30, Kevin Morrissey committed suicide after a reported three years of torment by Genoways despite the two having a genuine friendship at the start of their work together.
There was a record of several calls by Morrissey to university institutional helpers (HR, ombuds, EAP, president’s office). Either his call for help was not answered or treated with indifference. Those familiar with Morrissey’s complaints said that the rationalization for Genoways was that creative people like him could be difficult to work with and were often bad managers! In other words, live with him, adjust to him, Genoways is indispensable. Note the abdication of responsibility by this employer for the safe working conditions of its employees.
Tags: Alana Levinson-LaBrosse, bullycide, John Casteen, Kevin Morrissey, suicide, Ted Genoways, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review, workplace bullying
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Social Justice | 24 Comments »
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