August 31, 2009

HR's Employee Betrayal Secrets

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Anonymous said...

Create your own film...

Films can help to move forward people's understanding. This short film illustrates the hypocrisy of HR - I recognise it well from my experiences of dealing with HR in my university...

I so well remember my first approach to HR when they feigned understanding as I described how at times I was physically sick and unable to come into work... I felt sick when I thought about the actions of my colleagues towards me..

In the Guardian yesterday there was an article about a film made of a girl who was txting while she was driving and so crashed her car killing 4 people. The film - like this one here- had been put up on Youtube

This clip from the txting film has apparently had an enormous impact across the world and the Guardian reports one survey in the US which found that 80% of people who watched the film were less likely to text while driving than before.

Research last year - reported on this blog - estimated that workplace bullying costs employers almost 14 billion pounds and results in a loss of 33.5 million days off work.

Just figures... but those figures include the death of Carl Baybut a lecturer from Southampton Solent University...

One of Carl's colleagues writes on this blog - and there are links to the article about Carl in the Times Higher and the subsequent discussion about the incident on THE blog.

Carl hanged himself.

The coroner suggested that this action was linked to the humiliation that Carl experienced through the actions of his colleagues. These actions were - I understand- linked to workplace bullying.

If films can have such an impact - why not create your own film in your head - of Carl's last walk - carrying the rope with which he was to hang himself.

Imagine Carl fastening the rope around his neck...

Imagine his final moments...

What were his thoughts?

Did he think of his family?

Did he think of those colleagues who tormented him?

Did he think of his job that he loved?

Picture his colleagues...

Imagine their actions which contributed to his death...

Imagine the denial...

Picture Carl hanging - his body still - at peace at last...

At times I have been very close to taking my life because the pain is just about unbearable...

As you start your work in university this academic year - think of Carl - think of me- think of all those millions of people who are being bullied...

...and say NO to workplace bullying.

Take action now

Save lives.

Aphra Behn