What are you reading now?
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The_Fool:
love2travel:
Fan4-45years:
love2travel:
The No Asshole Rule, Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn't ~ Robert I Sutton The definitive guide to working with and surviving bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabber said, egomaniacs, and all other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work...
It's a real thing. Good book?
Its the kind of book CEO's should read. It speaks to all the costs to corporations for not getting rid of Bullies immediately. Some Companies are a bit smarter than others.
Reading your description got me curious. Doing all the typical Search stuff online .. Wow - I worked with some of the people that were written about. Online asked a few questions and these people more than fit, I expected to see their names and a few of my old work places named. The other strange thing is that just today: I was talking with a co-worker and there was a common, similar people at their places. Some are hired by a company deliberately too. (Not by accident not a mistake, intentional). My previous company had a few Of those hired to be a people cutter ... Sometimes bullying in attempt to get you to want to quit - so they wouldn't have to get rid of any person directly. Some are just that rotten way as just who they are... This subject felt very familiar - it is not always just women who have to deal with this ... As a guy I would say this is all too real. As much as I do not want to revisit much of it - it looks interesting ... Perhaps I could Come to a better understanding. Write more about it if and when you can. Whether you like or dislike it too.
Thanks for asking The Bully at Work ~Gary Naime, So far this is the better book in dealing with workplace bullying. You can read the first chapter which explains the dynamics very clearly. It helps give the target of the bully, tools and validation as to what is happening to them. https://www.amazon.com/Bully-Work-What-Reclaim-Dignity/dp/1402224265/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511445954&sr=8-1&keywords=the+bully+at+work I recommend it for anyone who is experiencing this at work. The No Asshole book is a guide for getting management on board, to realize they need to weed out these bullies for many reasons, absenteeism, morale in the workplace, keeping from paying lawsuits, losing workers and retraining their replacements. All large costs to the company. My intention is to develop a way to help change laws, protecting workers from bullies to the same level of other protected categories and to start a blog, to network and help those who are currently dealing with bullying by cowards. Bullies are actually cowards. I ask everyone , if they see someone at work being bullied, please don't turn a blind eye. The person who is being bullied, needs a friendly face and a witness. There is power in numbers! The bully tries to divide and enlist other coworkers to join in the bullying. Their fears of also becoming bullied, can scare them into submission. What we need to do, is join ranks against the bully. If you saw someone being beat up by a bully, wouldn't you step up or call the police? Bullying in the workplace is the same thing, a person who is being beat up by hostile actions and treatments. Please step up and alert your HR team, volunteer to be a witness for your coworker. More than likely, the person being bullied is actually the hardest performing person in the place! Thanks!! As the BeaTles taught us! ? LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED ? AND IN THE END, THE LOVE YOU TAKE, IS EQUAL TO THE LOVE YOU MAKE ?
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love2travel:
I ask everyone , if they see someone at work being bullied, please don't turn a blind eye. The person who is being bullied, needs a friendly face and a witness. There is power in numbers! The bully tries to divide and enlist other coworkers to join in the bullying. Their fears of also becoming bullied, can scare them into submission. What we need to do, is join ranks against the bully. If you saw someone being beat up by a bully, wouldn't you step up or call the police? Bullying in the workplace is the same thing, a person who is being beat up by hostile actions and treatments. Please step up and alert your HR team, volunteer to be a witness for your coworker. More than likely, the person being bullied is actually the hardest performing person in the place! Thanks!!
I'm in the entertainment industry. Or at least, I used to be. There's a thin line between bullying and fierce competition. I suppose it's like an office job in a lot of ways. Those without any real talent stab backs on their way to the top.
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HaileyMcComet:
love2travel:
I ask everyone , if they see someone at work being bullied, please don't turn a blind eye. The person who is being bullied, needs a friendly face and a witness. There is power in numbers! The bully tries to divide and enlist other coworkers to join in the bullying. Their fears of also becoming bullied, can scare them into submission. What we need to do, is join ranks against the bully. If you saw someone being beat up by a bully, wouldn't you step up or call the police? Bullying in the workplace is the same thing, a person who is being beat up by hostile actions and treatments. Please step up and alert your HR team, volunteer to be a witness for your coworker. More than likely, the person being bullied is actually the hardest performing person in the place! Thanks!!
I'm in the entertainment industry. Or at least, I used to be. There's a thin line between bullying and fierce competition. I suppose it's like an office job in a lot of ways. Those without any real talent stab backs on their way to the top.
Seriously, people in the entertainment business target the most talented person and scream at them every day, telling in front of everyone, that they are useless and untalented? Do they make them do the most demeaning thing possible in front of everyone. Why I was just reading about a manager that made a worker at a fast food joint, wash the floor by lying on his stomach, while he did the washing of the floor. The poor kid when home and killed himself eventually. Just curious, how does that type bullying, translate in the entertainment business?
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Almost finished reading Family Album by Danielle Steel.
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TV Guide magazine!
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Mornings On Horseback by David McCullough
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Origin ~ Dan Brown
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love2travel wrote:
Origin ~ Dan Brown
I have read about 5 other Dan Brown books. (I have not read Origin yet).
If you like his writing, you could probably pick another book and likely enjoy it too.
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Today I finally did what I wanted to on a stay-cation day off ....
I am reading "The Key To Midnight" Dean Koontz.
(From the all the books you can get in a bag for $5. Library fund raiser).
Now that I wrote that here, I may go back to reading some more.
Cold day outside, stay-cation day, no plans, don't want to make any, no hurry, room with windows
and a view of outside and a comfortable chair ...
that sounds good even to myself
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The_Fool wrote:
love2travel wrote:
Origin ~ Dan Brown
I have read about 5 other Dan Brown books. (I have not read Origin yet).
If you like his writing, you could probably pick another book and likely enjoy it too.
He's one of my favorite authors! I really wish he would write faster... Lol
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I’m still working on the Outlander book Voyager. On page 532 of 1059!
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I'm on book eight of the Poldark series. Winston Graham's writing is delicious, addictive.
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Fan4-45years wrote:
I'm on book eight of the Poldark series. Winston Graham's writing is delicious, addictive.
I love Poldark! Have not read the books, but watched all of the series on PBS.
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Nancy R wrote:
Fan4-45years wrote:
I'm on book eight of the Poldark series. Winston Graham's writing is delicious, addictive.
I love Poldark! Have not read the books, but watched all of the series on PBS.
So have I. I'm waiting for the final season to buy the DVDs. The casting is perfect except for Elizabeth, but she's an excellent actress. In the book E. was drop-dead beautiful and blonde. A friend suggested I read the series. It is even better than she said. Graham's prose is superb and very poetic. Not a bad combination.
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I've decided to start the Outlander series next. Have first DVD set on hold at the library.
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The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
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Bastard Out Of Carolina (sounds cheerful, doesn't it) .
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I'm reading "The War Before the War" by Andrew DelBanco, about the Fugitive Slave Act and the lead-up to the Civil War. It's fascinating but pretty depressing. The U.S. sure has been an effed-up country for much of its existence.
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The latest Beatlefan magazine! Then I have tons of other stuff that will probably take me 5 years to get through (the many Outlander novels, and the John Lennon books by Jude Southerland Kessler, and a couple Stephen King novels, to name a few)
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Infinity In The Palm Of Your Hand ~ Marcus Chown
Atoms are 99.999999999% space
If all of the space were removed from all of the atoms in all of the people on earth, we would be like a sugar cube in a young girl's hand. She's got the Whole world in her hands, she's got the whole wide world in her hands