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The Collective Cry

Experienced multiple miscarriages and an immediate family member becoming homeless – HR and Manager continued to push me to burnout.

The stories were quite different in the two different universities.What I realise now is that workplace psychological abuse is endemic

A manager serially bullied several colleagues, with severe consequences for several of them (burn-out, depression, sick leaves, one suicide attempt).

This story is in two parts. Workloads and Bullying. Workloads:Workloads have consistently been unrealistic within the Customer Relations & Advocacy

Experienced management who would ask for something and, when it was done, get mad because you didn’t deliver something else

Extreme bullying by one particular person in the organisation. I observed over 5 employees being bullied by this one person.

I was not given any onboarding and was criticised by my second week for not knowing all the processes and

Experienced upward bullying by a clique of workers and in trying to address this was advised to start addressing the

Passive aggressive – silos, ignorance of others needs, retaliation when seeking support, events happening on background to protect/disguise/hide information to

A male barrister has monitored, lied about and effectively stalked a woman barrister for about 2 years, even though she

Company knew the GC was a bully, I was warned about her by other staff. As soon as she started

Complete bullying and favourtism at play here where the average junior lawyers would get all the work because they “got

Principals who didn’t want to teach and senior associates who were condescending towards junior lawyers. They treated these juniors as

I was performance managed out by a toxic manager whose choice for moving me on was spelling errors. I was

My manager at the time of bullying was my bully. This manager was threatened by me and made it so

I was punched by a manager in the chest without provocation or warning. This manager found out I was gay

It was HORRIFIC and fully sanctioned by HR.

Was employed as Assistant Store Manager and performed the duties of the role, for two years I was paid as

This place is the reason I am keen on pursuing a career in employment law, specifically specialising in workplace bullying.

A short stay here but a time that made me fear for the rest of my future to come in

Staff were yelled at every day, harassed and bullied on a daily basis. The MD dictated what we were to

There was bullying in many forms in many teams. One law clerk found out they would be fired because of

A very senior partner would “mentor” juniors (from clerks to associates) by sitting them in his office and quizzing them

Shouted at by a toxic boss in corridors, in front of patients, placed in less-skilled roles and areas to demean