Rachel Goodchild’s Good Advice: Workplace Bullying and Annoying MILs
May 8, 2009 by Rachel Goodchild
Filed under Beautiful You, Couples and Partnerships, Inner Beauty
I had my first piece on Sunrise on TV3 this morning talking about mother in laws and work place bullying.
Here is the link to Rachel Goodchild’s Good Advice for those of you who missed it.
I’ve blogged the information on Mother In Laws on this blog already, but have added the information on workplace bullying for people who need that information below:
I was bullied at work last year. I did a few things to resolve the issue. The first thing is you need to work out the potential costs to you. Are you prepared to walk away from your job if it doesn’t work out? it’s important to weigh up all potential costs before you begin.
1. collect evidence. any emails, note any public bullying, provide documentation
2. collect support. are others being bullied? Collect evidence together that may help
3. Go to the top. Recognise you are talking to a friend of the person, but say it needs to be resolved. Personal grievances can cost alot of money to a company if there is evidence. they will want to sort it.
4. If they don’t sort it, and it’s endemic in the company consider long term effects to you. Perhaps this job is bad for your long term health. Even in this climate a bad job can be worse than no job!
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Greetings;
Your brief entry about bullying contains a lot of good advice. It’s wise to consider the possible effects of any action you take to try to stop the bullying and have a safe workplace again. One would think that management would be interested in protecting employees from bullying, but that is not always the case. In my own experience management supported the bully and eventually joined with her in targeting me with more harassment. This was at a Trinity Health medical facility in Boise, Idaho which advertises itself as the place where “advanced healing” begins! For myself and others it was the place where advanced injuring began. As the writer wrote it is very important to collect the evidence including any written correspondance and information about verbal exchanges also including date, time, location, and the names of witnesses if there are any. I’ve written about my experience under the heading “Workplace Psychological Abuse” on my blog “The Cambium Level” at http://www.leonardnolt.blogspot.com if you are interested in reading more.
Best wishes and stay safe.
Leonard Nolt
Leonardnolt@AOL.com