How businesses lose when they keep a bully on payroll
- Employees lose trust in employers who protect abusers. When they lose trust, their morale and productivity go down.
- Productivity also decreases when great employees focus on fear of more abuse.
- Employees lose money from absenteeism and turnover (not the kind that results from employers no longer needing certain skills), which costs organization big bucks in training.
- Since great employees leave their organizations when abused, companies lose employees who would have helped build a better company.
When costs go up for organizations, taxpayers lose, too. Health care costs get externalized, costs that the employer would have been responsible for.
No one wins when managers abuse employees.
An administrator abuses a teacher to replace her with her friend
About two years ago, I lost my job as a teacher. I had a great observation my first year of teaching. I was on cloud nine. Life was great.
The second year of teaching, we got a new administrator whose goal apparently was to make my life a living hell. She would show up in my room randomly, criticize every move I made as an educator, and constantly compare me with other educators in the building and use their names while telling me how I needed to be more like them. I went so far as to enroll myself back in a local university and take a class to prove to my administrator that I did in fact know my material and what I was doing.
After months of harassment from her, I was informed that I would not be coming back as a teacher. Everything I’d worked for was gone: so many years in school, nights studying, exams, MTELs — gone.
I was told by my union to just apply in a low income area because they hire anyone. I found that my last resort could be to face my former district in...