hi there i'm ronnie and um i don't know
if
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is the website and i especially would
like to
share something that i learned
from my wonderful student and many
wonderful students that i have
about something that i think is a very
serious issue concerning
people today um cyril thank you for
telling me all this information
um it's amazing so if you want to tell
me wonderful information
take lessons with me and let's get into
this so
um my student told me something about
something called mobbing
and you know i was thinking i'm mobbing
what's that what's that what's mobbing
is it mopping is it what's mobbing so um
eventually um we got to the
fact that mobbing is like bullying in
the workplace so
um a lot of people we say burn
out at work or they have a nervous
breakdown but
burning out is from doing too much work
but having a nervous breakdown is
something completely different that
needs to be addressed
and this happens a lot in workplaces
it happens in school and the bullying
continues to the workplace
and it's called mobbing this makes
people
stressed out belong beyond belief it
causes them
a lot of mental issues and makes them
basically unable to work and
it's something that people shouldn't do
people are different and that should be
accepted what it isn't
so mobbing is workplace bullying
psychological harassment of employees
it can be from people who are in a
higher position
so maybe your manager or your boss
is always insulting you telling you're
stupid you can't do your job
hey guess what this is illegal
they can't do that to you and you should
seek some legal counseling
anybody know a good lawyer but it's a
very serious thing
and we have to understand that it's
different
from sexual harassment
it's different from racial okay so it
has nothing to do with your race or your
gender
you could be the same race different
race you could be the same gender
different gender
it has to do with just people and power
so
we want to look at why people do this um
maybe they're jealous maybe you're
different maybe you have something
that is a disability and people we say
make fun of you
but it goes way beyond that because it
causes some very bad
effects so exactly
what is mobbing how do you know if
someone's actually doing this to you
well
they're verbal comments oh you're stupid
you can't do this uh
whoa what's going on um actions or
gestures so maybe people roll their eyes
at you
or maybe you come into the lunchroom
and nobody talks to you and you have to
eat your lunch alone in the corner
like in high school um or maybe
people are all talking oh what are you
doing the weekend oh let's get together
for a party
but one person isn't included
this is called ostracization so people
ostracize you from the group it means
they don't include you or they
exclude you they can insult you verbally
ah you're stupid oh the boss didn't give
you this job because you can't do it
because of your ability so
it's only at work and it's usually a
group of people if it's one person
yeah you can no it's terrible but it's a
group of people
that kind of gang up on you and do this
um
what happens to you you can get
some serious psychological health issues
they've been known to cause mobbing has
been known to cause anxiety
clinical depression and ptsd
ptsd is post-traumatic stress disorder
this is what
soldiers get when they come out of
combat
and this happens in a workplace which
could be seen as war
so this is a very very serious thing
that has been in the courts recently
um there was a woman who sold
a big corporation called walmart um
because her boss was constantly
insulting her
and she won a court case against him she
didn't win as much money as she wanted
it was 1.4 million
she got 400 000 wal-mart i think you can
cough up a bit much more money
it also has psychosomatic ailments that
are involved in it
psychosomatic means physical illnesses
um
caused by stress or internal conflict so
maybe you shake
and you can't stop shaking you just
shake because you're just so fried and
you just
you can't stop the physical illnesses
and it's really noticeable and then
people would make fun of you more and it
would
snowball which means get bigger
so what does all this say for companies
um
companies now for example in some
provinces of ontario canada and some
countries
actually have clear set rules and
policies against mobbing
and if they don't they can get into a
lot of trouble
um legal persecution that means
you can take your company to court okay
like the lady to walmart
based on discrimination in the workplace
so
if this is happening your workplace you
have to tell people
and you have to get involved and you
have to get help
because it is now a legal matter and
it's not a healthy environment why
people do this
again at the beginning i said about
jealousy it could be that you're
actually a very good worker
and the boss favors you it could be
that you're different from the other
people
and they make fun of you but regardless
of the reason if this is happening to
you
please put an end to this and get some
advice
and get well all right
let's all do this together bye