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The last job I had before I was deemed totally disabled was Hell.
It was a call center for a lingerie catalog. You are familiar with the name.
My boss was satan himself. I used an electric scooter to get around the very large building, and he desperately wanted to know what my medical problems were, which is , according to the Americans with Disabilities Act, illegal to ask about or demand to know information about, if my disability does not interfere with my job duties. My disabilities at that time, did not stop me from answering the phone, suggesting more items to purchase, and key in the order. Jackass demanded to know if I lied to get this job, and he demanded to know what was wrong with me. I told him the ADA law. I also called his boss, who never returned my calls.
He gave me poor performance reviews, even though I was top producer time after time. Then I got into a car accident, and had to take time off. He used that time off to bolster his poor performance review.
This employer makes us clock in and out for bathroom breaks. Jackass said that i took too long in the bathroom, even though my scooter can zoom faster than people can walk.
It made me mad, but i used this bullying to my advantage by including it in my request for permanent disability, and I won.
At another job, i was hired to answer the phones, that's all. I told the woman who hired me up front about my limitations, and she was cool with it. 5 hours into day one of the job, she calls me off the phones to go work in the shipping room picking up 80 pound boxes and carrying them to the truck. Hell no. We argued and she threw a $20 at me and told me to get out.
I went and applied for a state job as a receptionist, and the man who hired me said that there was no computer keyboarding, which was great because my hands and arms were in braces, and i could not use the computer keyboard. I started the job on day one, and after I was settled in, he left for the day. The second in command was a witch who demanded that i remove my braces and jump on the IBM Selectric typewriter to do 300 envelope addresses. IBM Selectrics require a hell of alot more hand and finger strength than a computer keyboard. I quit after an argument and got a paycheck from them for 8 hours.
I worked as a temp at the cocacola bottling plant for exactly one night's shift. My job was to destroy the plastic bottles that were defective. I had to put them into a loud machine bin which shreaded them, spitting out tiny shards of plastic back out at me. No eye protection, no ear protection, no hand protection. You guessed it, I got injured within ten minutes of starting the job, moments after I refused to do the job without proper protection, and was flatly denied. Cocacola paid me for one shift, and paid for the hospital bill. I will not drink cocacola products. OSHA did not care one bit about my complaint. The temp agency labled me a troublemaker.
I was a debt collector for a while, and that employer was supposed to give me Wed nights off so i could go to a sewing class. Once I caught a coworker breaking federal debt collection laws and sleeping with her team lead, suddenly, I got scheduled for every Wed. night. I sabotaged my files before i quit, and without notice.
I once had a job where we did credit background checks on people who had applied for home loans. We got no lunchtime; we had to chew food between phone calls. This is illegal. They promised me $300 more per month than I actually received, so i made a complaint to the state employment commission, and quit. My promise of salary was never in writing.
When I tell these stories, I am not alone. There are terrible bosses everywhere. I am so damn glad to be out of that mess now.
The last job I had before I was deemed totally disabled was Hell.
It was a call center for a lingerie catalog. You are familiar with the name.
My boss was satan himself. I used an electric scooter to get around the very large building, and he desperately wanted to know what my medical problems were, which is , according to the Americans with Disabilities Act, illegal to ask about or demand to know information about, if my disability does not interfere with my job duties. My disabilities at that time, did not stop me from answering the phone, suggesting more items to purchase, and key in the order. Jackass demanded to know if I lied to get this job, and he demanded to know what was wrong with me. I told him the ADA law. I also called his boss, who never returned my calls.
He gave me poor performance reviews, even though I was top producer time after time. Then I got into a car accident, and had to take time off. He used that time off to bolster his poor performance review.
This employer makes us clock in and out for bathroom breaks. Jackass said that i took too long in the bathroom, even though my scooter can zoom faster than people can walk.
It made me mad, but i used this bullying to my advantage by including it in my request for permanent disability, and I won.
At another job, i was hired to answer the phones, that's all. I told the woman who hired me up front about my limitations, and she was cool with it. 5 hours into day one of the job, she calls me off the phones to go work in the shipping room picking up 80 pound boxes and carrying them to the truck. Hell no. We argued and she threw a $20 at me and told me to get out.
I went and applied for a state job as a receptionist, and the man who hired me said that there was no computer keyboarding, which was great because my hands and arms were in braces, and i could not use the computer keyboard. I started the job on day one, and after I was settled in, he left for the day. The second in command was a witch who demanded that i remove my braces and jump on the IBM Selectric typewriter to do 300 envelope addresses. IBM Selectrics require a hell of alot more hand and finger strength than a computer keyboard. I quit after an argument and got a paycheck from them for 8 hours.
I worked as a temp at the cocacola bottling plant for exactly one night's shift. My job was to destroy the plastic bottles that were defective. I had to put them into a loud machine bin which shreaded them, spitting out tiny shards of plastic back out at me. No eye protection, no ear protection, no hand protection. You guessed it, I got injured within ten minutes of starting the job, moments after I refused to do the job without proper protection, and was flatly denied. Cocacola paid me for one shift, and paid for the hospital bill. I will not drink cocacola products. OSHA did not care one bit about my complaint. The temp agency labled me a troublemaker.
I was a debt collector for a while, and that employer was supposed to give me Wed nights off so i could go to a sewing class. Once I caught a coworker breaking federal debt collection laws and sleeping with her team lead, suddenly, I got scheduled for every Wed. night. I sabotaged my files before i quit, and without notice.
I once had a job where we did credit background checks on people who had applied for home loans. We got no lunchtime; we had to chew food between phone calls. This is illegal. They promised me $300 more per month than I actually received, so i made a complaint to the state employment commission, and quit. My promise of salary was never in writing.
When I tell these stories, I am not alone. There are terrible bosses everywhere. I am so damn glad to be out of that mess now.
I was bullied by a co-worker. Having worked in the computer field he thought he was smarter than me - and he probably was - but would yell at me and call me names when nobody else was around and was nice as pie in front of most everyone else. One day when he was being sickeningly sweet in front of a superior I asked him (in front of her) why he was nice when other people were around and nasty when they were not. He had no words so I went on to tell him that I was going to start wearing a recording device when we worked together so I could prove how nasty he was to me when nobody else was there. He stopped treating me so badly after that. Sometimes you just have to bully the bullies.
I've been bullied and sexually harassed at every job I've ever had, except here at the nursery. The repeated abuse has further exacerbated my PTSD.
In my opinion, workplace bullying is one of the worst things humans have to deal with to keep food in their belly and a roof over there head. I wish there were more we could do to prevent and 'prosecute' even these terrible people who make others lives miserable, but I haven't found a way as yet.
Definate secondary wounding or us.
In my opinion, workplace bullying is one of the worst things humans have to deal with to keep food in their belly and a roof over there head. I wish there were more we could do to prevent and 'prosecute' even these terrible people who make others lives miserable, but I haven't found a way as yet.
Definate secondary wounding or us.
Portabella
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My manager where I work presently rides me like a frigging horse, she just won't get the heck off my back. I feel singled out and sadly it has me dreading work more than ever and looking for a different job. grrrrrr......
I once had a manager pull me into an office and he reamed me, slamming his cane down on the arm of the chair missing my hand by inches. He read me the riot act. You'll never guess what my crime was. I was guilty of interdepartmental communication. Yep, I communicated to another department about upcoming changes that would affect their workflow. Sadly, I didn't learn my lesson as I still communicate with others. But I'm working on it... :)
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(WebMD) There's no escaping the fact that life isn't always fair, but that usually doesn't make unfair treatment any easier to accept. Now new brain imaging studies may help explain why.
The research shows that being on the receiving end of fair treatment is inherently rewarding, activating the portion of the brain associated with happiness.
Being treated unfairly was shown to activate a region of the brain previously linked to negative emotions, such as moral disgust.
UCLA researchers combined brain imaging with an established psychological test of fairness called the "ultimatum game" to visualize the brain's reaction to fairness.
"The same parts of the brain that get activated in response to very basic rewards get activated in response to fairness," researcher and UCLA psychologist Golnaz Tabibnia, PhD, tells WebMD.
Fairness and the Brain
The game involves two players who have to agree on how to share a specific amount of money, with one player -- the proposer -- deciding on the amount each will get and the other player -- the responder -- determining if the offer is fair and will be accepted.
If the responder finds the offer too unfair to accept, neither player gets anything.
In the UCLA experiment, the game was fixed to present the responder with a range of very fair and unfair offers. The idea was to see how the brain responded to different fairness scenarios.
When the responder received a fair offer of $5 out of $10, the imaging showed the areas of the brain most closely tied to happiness to be highly activated.
When the responders were offered the same amount of money but in a less fair scenario -- $5 out of $23, for example -- the region of the brain closely linked to negative emotion was usually activated, Tabibnia says.
The study appears in the April issue of the journal Psychological Science.
The findings confirm and expand on earlier research showing that fairness is often more important to people than monetary reward.
"When an offer is pretty unfair -- say 20% of the total -- about half the time responders will reject it," Tabibnia says.
The study also shows fairness processing to be "relatively automatic and intuitive," the researchers note.
Not all of the study participants rejected the unfair offers, and when this happened the monetary gain did not usually activate the regions of the brain linked to happiness and reward.
The imaging did show increased activity in the part of the brain associated with emotion control when unfair offers were accepted, which appeared to have tempered the activity of the disgust response, Tabibnia says.
"When people accepted these offers, essentially swallowing their pride, we could see a down regulating of the indignity response in the brain," she says.
'Seeing' the Mind-Brain Connection
The study joins a growing body of research employing functional brain imaging to show the connection between the brain and the mind, says Joy Hirsch, PhD, who directs the Program for Imaging and Cognitive Sciences at New York's Columbia University.
"Science is about seeing, and that is what this lets us do," she says. "We are now able to show not just the structure of the brain, but the structure of the brain in action -- its reaction to emotions like happiness, sadness, and even fairness."
The ability to visualize in real time the brain's response to social interactions should advance the understanding of how the mind works, she says.
"We had never thought of things like ethics or fairness as being tied to neurons, but they are," Hirsch says.
By Salynn Boyles
Reviewed by Louise Chang
©2005-2008 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved.
Treated Unfairly? Here's Why You're Sore
Brain Imaging Studies Show Fair Treatment Activates Portion of Brain Linked to Happiness
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April 21, 2008
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Too Many Choices Exhaust The Brain Active Life, Better Peace of Mind Public Confessions of Private Affairs Brain Learns Compassion via Meditation Unselfish Spending Boosts Happiness
Answers.com
(WebMD) There's no escaping the fact that life isn't always fair, but that usually doesn't make unfair treatment any easier to accept. Now new brain imaging studies may help explain why.
The research shows that being on the receiving end of fair treatment is inherently rewarding, activating the portion of the brain associated with happiness.
Being treated unfairly was shown to activate a region of the brain previously linked to negative emotions, such as moral disgust.
UCLA researchers combined brain imaging with an established psychological test of fairness called the "ultimatum game" to visualize the brain's reaction to fairness.
"The same parts of the brain that get activated in response to very basic rewards get activated in response to fairness," researcher and UCLA psychologist Golnaz Tabibnia, PhD, tells WebMD.
Fairness and the Brain
The game involves two players who have to agree on how to share a specific amount of money, with one player -- the proposer -- deciding on the amount each will get and the other player -- the responder -- determining if the offer is fair and will be accepted.
If the responder finds the offer too unfair to accept, neither player gets anything.
In the UCLA experiment, the game was fixed to present the responder with a range of very fair and unfair offers. The idea was to see how the brain responded to different fairness scenarios.
When the responder received a fair offer of $5 out of $10, the imaging showed the areas of the brain most closely tied to happiness to be highly activated.
When the responders were offered the same amount of money but in a less fair scenario -- $5 out of $23, for example -- the region of the brain closely linked to negative emotion was usually activated, Tabibnia says.
The study appears in the April issue of the journal Psychological Science.
The findings confirm and expand on earlier research showing that fairness is often more important to people than monetary reward.
"When an offer is pretty unfair -- say 20% of the total -- about half the time responders will reject it," Tabibnia says.
The study also shows fairness processing to be "relatively automatic and intuitive," the researchers note.
Not all of the study participants rejected the unfair offers, and when this happened the monetary gain did not usually activate the regions of the brain linked to happiness and reward.
The imaging did show increased activity in the part of the brain associated with emotion control when unfair offers were accepted, which appeared to have tempered the activity of the disgust response, Tabibnia says.
"When people accepted these offers, essentially swallowing their pride, we could see a down regulating of the indignity response in the brain," she says.
'Seeing' the Mind-Brain Connection
The study joins a growing body of research employing functional brain imaging to show the connection between the brain and the mind, says Joy Hirsch, PhD, who directs the Program for Imaging and Cognitive Sciences at New York's Columbia University.
"Science is about seeing, and that is what this lets us do," she says. "We are now able to show not just the structure of the brain, but the structure of the brain in action -- its reaction to emotions like happiness, sadness, and even fairness."
The ability to visualize in real time the brain's response to social interactions should advance the understanding of how the mind works, she says.
"We had never thought of things like ethics or fairness as being tied to neurons, but they are," Hirsch says.
By Salynn Boyles
Reviewed by Louise Chang
©2005-2008 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved.
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I think any person who has been in the military could only ever answer Yes to that question....
I don't like to think of myself as a violent person, but if some schmuck swung a cane, and missed me by a few inches, that would not go over well.
A couple of years ago, I had a female supervisor who became very difficult. We ended up in our company's personnel dept and I made her look like the jerk she was. It was not difficult, I just let her do most of the talking. Sometimes if you give a person enough rope, they will hang themselves.
Oddly enough her and I have now become great friends.
A couple of years ago, I had a female supervisor who became very difficult. We ended up in our company's personnel dept and I made her look like the jerk she was. It was not difficult, I just let her do most of the talking. Sometimes if you give a person enough rope, they will hang themselves.
Oddly enough her and I have now become great friends.
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