from Veritas Consulting
Since leaving employment to run my own business, I have discovered the real benefits of being my own boss.
When in employment, I was confronted by three workplace bullies, in three separate organizations and job roles, all of which were my managers. At the time, it was very distressing; it shattered my confidence, and gave me a feeling of inadequacy. I felt I had to work twice as hard to achieve just a smidgeon of what was demanded because of the dysfunction in management.
In all three cases, jealousy and insecurity drove these managers to bully. I was deemed too popular, too considerate, too conscientious, and too competent; and over time, I had successfully built up some highly effective interpersonal and behavioral skills, so I was seen as a threat to these managers because my positive qualities inadvertently attracted unfavorable comparison with their own inadequacies.
Often or not Performance Appraisals were delayed or postponed; weekly team meetings began to dissipate; workloads increased; unreasonable demands were set; all sense of work control taken away; job roles altered and often replaced with menial tasks: and all executed with a complete lack of understanding or consultation. I felt unvalued, unsupported, undermined and miserable, in work-roles, I had once enjoyed and totally achieved in!
When people think about nursing home abuse, the picture of a vulnerable, abused elder comes to mind, but never an abused health care worker. However, the fact is that nursing homes account for 27% of workplace violence in the U.S. (Hall et. al); effectively, nursing homes have the highest incidence of workplace violence out of all workplaces in the U.S.
