On Jan 2, 2:38=A0am, eime...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> -=3D. harassment at work -=3D
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> Once I stopped watching television and listening to the. radio at the
end =
of
> 1990, "they" had to find. other ways of committing abuses. So they took
wh=
at
> must be for them. a tried and tested route; they get at you by
subversion =
of
> those around you. Since they wouldn't be. able to do that with my family
o=
r
> friends, that meant getting at people in the. workplace to be their
> mouthpieces and do their dirty. work for them.
>
> They supplied my employers in Oxford with. details from what was going
on =
in
> my private life, and what I and. other people had said at my home and
> accommodation in Oxford. So people at work repeated. verbatim words
which
> had been said in my home, and. repeated what I'd been doing recently.
Ofte=
n
> the most trivial things,. the ones from your domestic life, are the ones
> which hurt most. One manager in particular at. Oxford continuously
abused =
me
> for ten months with verbal sexual abuse, swearing, and threats. to
termina=
te
> my employment. After. ten months I was forced to seek psychiatric help
and=
> start taking medication, and was away from work for two months. I. spoke
> later with a solicitor about. what had happened at that company; he
advise=
d
> it was only possible to take action if. you had left the company as a
resu=
lt
> of harassment,. and such an action would have to be started very soon
afte=
r
> leaving.
>
> Over a year later the same manager. picked on another new worker, with
eve=
n
> more serious results; that employee tried to. commit suicide with an
> overdose as a result of the ill-treatment, and. was forced to leave his
jo=
b.
> But he didn't take action against the. company, either. Abuse at work is
> comparable to that elsewhere. in that tangible evidence is difficult to
> produce,. and the abusers will always have their denials ready when
> challenged. And even if a court. accepts what you say happened, it still
> remains to prove that abuse causes the type of. breakdown I had at the
end=
> of 1992.. In a recent case before a British court, a former member of
the
> Army brought a case against others who had maltreated him ten. years
> previously. Although. the court accepted that abuse had occurred, it did
n=
ot
> agree. that depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied justice
to=
> the. plaintiff.
>
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