By CHRISTINE PORATHJUNE 19, 2015
MEAN bosses could have killed my father. I vividly recall walking into a hospital room outside of Cleveland to see my strong, athletic dad lying with electrodes strapped to his bare chest. What put him there? I believe it was work-related stress. For years he endured two uncivil bosses.
Rudeness and bad behavior have all grown over the last decades, particularly at work. For nearly 20 years I’ve been studying, consulting and collaborating with organizations around the world to learn more about thecosts of this incivility. How we treat one another at work matters. Insensitive interactions have a way of whittling away at people’s health, performance and souls.
Robert M. Sapolsky, a Stanford professor and the author of “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers,” argues that when people experience intermittent stressors like incivility for too long or too often, their immune systems pay the price. We also may experience major health problems, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and ulcers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/sunday/is-your-boss-mean.html?_r=0
Paul? Albert? Gwenn? Roberta?
Are you recognizing yourselves here?
Look at THE LIST in the article
Won’t comment on the Three Amigos + 1, but I call BS on this article.
Workplaces are so PC paranoid these days that saying bosses are mean or uncivil is a joke – bosses are too afraid of being sued or fired that they deal with issues in a much more subtle manner and are anything but uncivil.
I agree that the classic horrible boss is rarely encountered these days. In my opinion, the modern corporate workplace no longer needs that kind of personality anymore when it comes to getting maximum production and high quality work from employees. It’s all very subtle now, and employees know this. Companies have become very adept in the art of managing employees out of their workplaces. It’s actually very rare for someone to get fired nowadays in the traditional sense. It’s all done by waves of downsizing (then re-sizing). Employees know that they are one phone call away from getting a call from HR, and then it’s a ride home with a box of your stuff and a stack of paperwork about things like Cobra.
Stay productive, my friends, stay productive. Go easy on the web surfing at work.