Emotional Abuse in the Workplace - It's Real!
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Hi, my name is Katherine in this podcast is about workplace harassment horror stories. We all have them, we all know about them. But what I find interesting is when it happens within large organizations, for example, of bureaucracy, whether it be at the federal level or at a provincial level, it is very difficult for managers and uh people at very high levels to really acknowledge what it actually is when a workplace becomes toxic and it's very interesting. I have lived through it, but I've also observed it from the outside and I find it interesting that sometimes people can be promoted and actually made to feel like a hero for treating people like absolute crap. Anyway, it happens. Uh there are people who have been severely uh affected by it emotionally and in an environment where mental health is really just so important for someone to have good mental health. Why is it that some employers can get away with pressuring and emotionally abusing staff? I find it really, really sad because most people won't speak up about it, They endure it and they just go along with it. I actually have a hip disability where my hips turn in and I had a manager called me into her office once and say, what could we do to improve the way I walked. I was born that way and managed to deal with many things to overcome it. And this person was trying to intimidate me and trying to make me feel bad about a physical flaw, which is really a minor fall and something that really wasn't meant to um to be mentioned in a workplace. So I share those stories that there are some people that have suffered um imaginable emotional trauma at the hands of people who have power or think they have power. And I had a really good manager once say to me, you know, you could be judged by the way you treat your support staff, and I always remembered in my career to treat administrative and support staff with the utmost of respect. Not everyone did that, and I think it's very interesting that some of those people that didn't do it moved up much higher than I did anyway, just food for thought.