Asking for Help Weird, deformed world in which stressful, overflowing agendas have become a status symbol. With all its consequences. And taking good care of yourself, protecting yourself and asking for help when that status symbol grows over your head, instead, is seen as weakness. Again, with all its consequences. One million Dutch employees have […]
Ten days ago (19/04/19) a series called “Bullied from 9 to 5” started on Dutch television. Fantastic initiative! One in eight Dutch employees is being bullied at work and it costs the Government an estimated €900 million a year. Five victims of Workplace Bullying participated in this episode. One participating victim finally got the opportunity […]
If indeed one million Dutch employees are being bullied at work, that means that hardly any company or organisation is spared this outrage. Of course there are workplaces where it happens more often than in others, with remarkable similar characteristics. And, fortunately, there are also, predominantly younger, smaller and more innovative organisations, that proceed more […]
Outrageous really that the threshold for filing a complaint when you are plainly being psychologically harassed at work is so ridiculously high. In a country like the Netherlands. Still, my theory remains that the more people who file a complaint, the more indispensable improvements will become. It is exactly the fact that way too few […]
Not much really. With six years and overall ultimately even more than nine years of experience, the advice is and remains : focus on your Self! Which does not mean that you should not try to make use of the “tools” that are available internally. If only to prevent, at any point in time, any […]
In the series “Tools to Defy Workplace Bullying”, a positive start : An Encouragement! ‘Workplace Bullying’, being a ‘Victim of Workplace Bullying’…., it has a connotation of “weakness”. Not very helpful if you want to overcome the gigantic taboo on Workplace Bullying. For companies and organisations it is difficult to admit that it actually concerns […]
Workplace Bullying : is filing a complaint effective? Not infrequently, it will cost one’s job! Income, obviously and understandably, is almost always the most important consideration. Although it isn’t even guaranteed, judged from the position that you are in. Is it worth your job? What is the alternative? Taking into account that you can basically […]
Have you ever started a new job with all enthusiasm and interest in the world? Where that turned out to be idiocy? Where you are completely cast aside as of the very beginning. Where you’re treated with angry and dismissive looks. People pitted against you, behind your back. Who subsequently give you the cold shoulder […]