by Anonymous | 16th Mar 2021 | Education, Stress and Burnout
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” I was taught to say this at school if called a name – and I did, when I was. Even before I began to be a spectacles wearer – not a cool look in 1978 – I was singled out for being small, skinny and...
by Anonymous | 24th Nov 2020 | Culture
“That’s a bit harsh.” There it was again. A put down, albeit accompanied by a smile. A ‘get-back-in-your-box’ comment. I could add it to the collection, along with, “straight talking,” “feisty,” “scary,” “abrupt,” not to mention the emotional or bossy comments....
by Anonymous | 7th Apr 2020 | Culture
Niceties over, when the business talk began I was not prepared for the assault. I was being sacked. By telephone. With no prior notice or warning, no invitation to discuss my behaviour, no consultation at all. After 23 years. A...
by Anonymous | 3rd Mar 2020 | Stress and Burnout
The last straw. What was your last straw? What made you finally snap after years of tolerating abuse, manipulation and deceit? I knew I was being unfairly treated, managed, and used, but I told myself time and again that I could cope with it, that it wasn’t all bad,...
by Anonymous | 8th Mar 2019 | Stress and Burnout
In the darkness of a late January evening, the rest of my family upstairs preparing for their evening of television in bed, I laid my head on my desk and sobbed. Sobbed in despair. In fear that I was losing my mind. I sobbed because it seemed I had been mistaken that...
