Category Archives: Mobbing

Mobbing: attacked a cashier in a supermarket

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caissiere44 years, Peruvian, with two children, kidney problems and a part-time contract of 30 hours per week for just over 1000 euro per month. This is the framework of a cashier in a supermarket that mistreated and humiliated, has resisted even if sick, the constant harassments. Then, when she was attacked physically, hasn’t done it again and has decided to react and exposing it to the police.

Sometimes she feels bad, but she don’t allowed to go to the toilet. One day she urinated on her because it hadn’t been given the possibility to her to go to the toilet. Finished work, “humiliated and crying”, she went to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a hemorrhagic cystitis: 15 days of disease prognosis.

But a few days ago an episode even more serious: an aggression in the dressing room of the store by a person not yet identified. After 16:30 the cashier goes downstairs to change her clothings and a stranger covers her eyes with a band, lock her hands, puts a cloth in her mouth and bangs her head against the walls of the bathroom. Then, screaming at her “piss” and other hostile words press the flush. “When he put my head in the water”, the victim said, “I saw my children who greeted me for the last time and I recommended me to God”.

She faints and the director helps her, accompanying her to the hospital. The worker complained to the police: “I want to know who was beating me and why”. And above all, referring to her complaints of mobbing says to “want to fight now because no one is subjected to the same humiliation I suffered myself”.

Unfortunately, however, humiliation and harassment are on the agenda. It’s always difficult to collect evidence attesting these episodes. In many cases, employees have proved to be smart recording with microcameras  the episodes of mobbing. These images have often proved the key to resolve their unfortunate situation. In fact, in other cases, in the absence of evidences, the court hasn’t been able to give a favorable opinion to the complaints of the case. Pens, watches, buttons, ties can hide small cameras that allow you to catch humiliation and threats and solve cases that may, in the long run, cause stress, insomnia and mental disorders that shouldn’t be underestimated.

The woman boss creates frustrations

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 Who doesn’t remember the perfidious Miranda of the movie “The Devil Wears Prada”? Wicked, rich, unscrupulous. This seems to be the perfect picture of career women torn between career and family, and increasingly alone.

donnacapoHave a female responsible still carries disturbs. For men seems to be downright frustrating receive orders from a woman. The confirmation came from a recent Canadian study: the sex of the boss affects the lives of employees at work and beyond. According to the research of the Toronto University, the sex of the persons who manage the work has consequences for the physical and mental health of employees.

For each employee were examined psychological stress, physical symptoms, type of employment and a range of working conditions, such as the level of satisfaction behind the desk, the relationship with the authorities, pressures received and the quality of interpersonal relationships. The workers were subsequently divided into groups, managed by two different supervisor: one of the same sex and one of different sex. The result is that employees are worse with female boss. And not only in the office, they may sometimes suffer the consequences with regard to the mental and physical health.

Much better instead if to give orders was a man, or at most a pair of male and female managers. By examining the characteristics showed, the ideal leader would have a mix of feminine and masculine qualities. The fact is that in leading roles, political, corporate or public, women are still very few.

Beyond what may be the implications of the different cultures at working, we report the story of “Sabrina” (fancy name) who had to submit to her responsable for about nine months for lack of evidence. The unfortunate worked in a large U.S. telephony enterprise for about three years when the company was absorbed by foreign entrepreneurs. The first impact with the new business decisions was rather good: more rigorous, valid contractual frameworks, air of novelty. The problems began after a very short time: Sabrina, from 18 months in charge of marketing, was replaced by a newcomer without many explanations. She was moved into telemarketing area without special responsibilities. The demotion was followed by a long series of criticisms and pressure on her performance that resulted in loud discussions with the departement head. Everyday scenes but couldn’t find legal basis for lack of evidence. So the girl took courage and recorded with a powerful voice recorder the continuing harassment; after that she leds the recordings to her lawyer. Now Sabrina has a new job, but the company where she worked had to pay to her moral damages.

Family and conjugal mobbing

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The use of the term mobbing has been recently extended to the domestic field. This occurs in the moment in which aggressive attitudes and vexatious are implemented within the family unit. Classic example of conjugal mobbing can be represented by a spouse who uses threats, physical and psychological violence against the other one, in order to get something: force him to behavior that goes against his will, such as leaving the matrimonial home, agree to the separation, exclude him from important decisions, etc..

It’s a persecutory strategy made of small gestures, hostility, closure of communication, continuous criticisms, absolute indifference in order to belittle the other. Like the mobbing at work, these oppressive, systematic and repeated attitudes, threaten the dignity, the self-esteem, but also the physical and mental integrity of the victim.

Beyond the conjugal mobbing, always within of a family unit, we can distinguish the family mobbing, the set of mobbing actions against a family member, a parent, a son or other close relative. Denigrations, threats, de-legitimization of the family and social role, indifference…are some of the characteristics in these cases of mobbing.
The behaviors are realized in a series of real harassments (especially psychological) that lead the victim to belittle their own personality, to cancel the self-esteem occupying a position of total submission.

To define, for the legal point of view, the existence of a case of harassments, it’s necessary that these actions are repeated over time and they are verifiable. In fact, often involve the use of micro bugs or micro cameras that, hidden in the most attended places, help the victim to demonstrate the reality of the facts.
Rarely, these behaviors become physical abuse but in any case, the victim often falls into a state comparable to that of the victims of violence, reluctant to report to the police for fear or shame.

When mobbing and stalking are dangerously intertwined, the story of “Anne”

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mobbing3_grIt isn’t enough identify and punish crimes, it’s also important try to prevent them. Numerous crimes happen in the workplace and becoming, most of the times, mobbing. It isn’t often able to distinguish stalking from mobbing. When you fear for your safety you are in front of the stalking, that born from a serious psychopathological disorder, non-acceptance: a rejection of others’ success…In the case of mobbing, however, this practice can lead to persecutor behaviors to remove someone from the workplace, these actions are dictated by reasons of interpersonal and organizational character and in this case, the victim may suffer from post-traumatic disorders and depression, but not in fear of his life.

Surely fears for her life, Anne, fancy name for anonymity, forty year old, that in just a few months was forced to leave the job as a victim of persecution acts by her colleague, with whom she had made a sevices company. Divorced and mother of two teenage children, Anne talks about her bad story from when the work went well when she suffered a demotion and an abrupt reduction in salary, which has deeply influenced her life, bringing her to ask money borrow to the family and friends to support her children and pay the mortgage of 600 Euros per month.

She speaks about how she was forced to do things that were outside from her tasks, and how, after her refusal to undergo these abuses, she has found closed the office with the door lock changed. She was almost fired. Readmitted to the work by the judge, she was then sent to do manual labor, which are outside of her functions, until the day in which the police had to intervene to put down a dispute in which Anna is over to the hospital with a prognosis of 15 days, attacked by her colleagues. Then came the illness, depression, until to a total loss of work, and, although the court has imposed on the counterparty to pay her wages, she never received any money, starting a series of endless legal actions. “Justice – she says – doesn’t follow the timing of the payment of bills, although it gives me reason”.

This is just one of many cases that happen every day, and as you can see, not only about the relationship between men and women, but also among people of the same gender, which often run into this problem for jealousies and envies. In many cases, employees have proved shrewdness filming with microcameras the episodes of mobbing.

These pictures are often the key to resolving their unfortunate situation. In fact, in other cases, in the absence of evidences, the court has not been able to give a favorable opinion to the complaints of the case.

Pens, watches, buttons, ties can hide small cameras in order to record harassment and threats and solve cases that may, in the long run, cause stress, insomnia and mental disorders that shouldn’t be underestimated.