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 | 9th Jul 2019 | Stress and Burnout
In a recent twitter exchange two professors discussed ways of dealing with negative workplace attitudes. Professor Alison Leary said: “I…have learned to walk away….from disrespect… tokenism… aggression… wasting energy and time.” Professor Trish Greenhalgh referred to...
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...