Problems At Work

[Bitingback]

Re: Problems At Work

G'day Cara Mia,

Sorry to say itsounds familiar, it is a horrible and stressful situation you are going through and you will have to decide how best to address it.

You employer has a duty to ensure your working situation is safe and healthy and if you are suffering bullying (sadly there is no legal definition of this) or harrassment, they have a duty of care to stop this from happenng.

Check out the links TANZ provided and also have a look (or better yet talk to)

http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=454

Tools put me on to them for my OH situation.

It is important to remember that the organisation has a process in place to protect you from this situation though it is up to you to initiate it. Thats the biggest mind shift, the thought of officially complaining about your superior (?), but hey you did it to the banks and won .

This is a purely personal opinion, but if you walk away nothng will change there and the person who is causing you stress will have freedom to use your name to coverup any failings within your work area.

If you do decide to leave, ensure it is on your terms and that your empoyer has to deal with (or compensate you for) the situation that has led to this result.

Also (I sound like I'm lecturing now sorry) bear in mind they will be providing references to other potential employers.

I'm happy to help so keep us posted.

BB

[Xena]

Re: Problems At Work

Sorry to hear about this Scar,

xx

[TANZARELLI]

Re: Problems At Work

HI Scarlet,

Not knowing to much about the company/org you work for it is hard to comment, however you have touched already on something which you need to do more of and that is to record/evidence the incidences of bullying that are taking place in the workplace. If your friend is happy to be a witness all the better as if it goes to any sort of tribunal this will be needed to back up your case.

Does the palce you work at have an internal complaints procedure? Or is there any sort of external support you are able to access?

It is not a nice situation to be in and you should not be made to put up with it. Remember you are the victim here.

Have a read of this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7191309.stm

Also here are a few useful links that may help:

http://www.workplacebullying.co.uk/

http://www.andreaadamstrust.org/

http://www.tuc.org.uk/tuc/rights_bullyatwork.cfm

I hope things improve but remember if they continue to stay the same without being challenged it will not only damage your health it will also say to them you condone them doing it to you.

Take care.

Tanz

[Amy]

Re: Problems At Work

Good start Scarlet, well done xx

[scarletrose]

Re: Problems At Work

Oh Enaid thanx hunny in an ideal world this person needs to retire and I need to stay with ?

scarletxxxxx

[enaid]

Re: Problems At Work

Aww scarlet afraid I have no answers for you, I'm not clued up on this at all.
Bitingback has had a similar problem, well his OH did have a read of that and see if you can pick anything up from there.
Just will add I hope you come out of this ok, keep your chin up and you know people on here will pull out all the stops to help you Enaid x