emivim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> -= harassment. at work -=
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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
what
> 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
or
> 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.
Often
> 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 ***ual abuse, swearing, and threats. to
terminate
> 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
advised
> it was only possible to. take action if you had left the company as a
result
> of. harassment, and such an action would have to be started very soon
after
> leaving.
>
> Over a year later the same manager picked on another new worker, with.
even
> 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
job.
> 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
not
> agree that depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied. justice
to
> the. plaintiff.
>
> 3304
>
Do you have to post this crap in some obscure newsgroup?
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