Why you can't get used to violence

16.9.2016

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, adolescents and cyber space, talks about why it is so important to get away from aggression and emotional abuse in time. Video by Vadim Syshchikov.

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- I am approached by people who have been working at their workplace for sixteen or twenty years and describe a situation that can clearly be defined as a mobbing situation. That is, they are used, insulted, humiliated, and at the same time they continue to perform their professional duties - I will not say “bad”, “good” right now - they continue, they are not fired, but they are subordinated, they are broken, they are made into people who get used to the victim's condition, or are victimized, and victimized people are very easy to manage - they do not resist any supervisory decision...

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