MOBBING NO

How to respond to boorish attacks from your boss and work colleagues

16.11.2016

Daria Nevskaya, the author of the idea and creator of the first Russian-language website mobbingu.net, fully dedicated to the problems of harassment and bullying in the workplace, adolescence and cyber space, talks about how to counter emotional violence in the workplace and how to respond to her offenders.


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- We talked to you last time about signs of mobbing, and among them, this “dirty dozen”, as Robert Sutton called them, were signs related to a status slap in the face. That is, with such an unpleasant, harsh word or remark addressed to you that discredits you as a person, as a professional, as a rule, this situation is played out in such a way by your boss or your colleague that you often cannot answer it. That is, it looks like it, by the way, they tell you that there are too many of you or that you did the wrong thing, when in fact you were required to do something completely different, and they don't even let you make excuses, but switch to another topic and talk...

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