subject: What You Should Do About Your Hostile Workplace Environment [print this page] What You Should Do About Your Hostile Workplace Environment
Yesterday you left work as upset as ever. You skipped work all together today. You are so mad at your boss. How dare he talk to you as if you were his secretary? You worked hard for your Master's Degree. What makes the guys any better than you? Nothing! That's right. Absolutely nothing! You may not be calm enough to realize it yet but you have fallen victim to a hostile environment workplace. We all deal with the values we grew up with in different ways. Sometimes a person becomes a manager who hasn't realized just how ingrained in their behavior the values they grew up with are. Not all of those values are appropriate in today's work environment.
Sexual harassment still raises its ugly head regularly. It manifests itself in many different ways. You can get along with everyone you work with perfectly and suddenly a situation arises that turns your company into a hostile environment workplace. Luckily, in an isolated case like this, the situation can be worked out. Once you realize the manager is so ignorant of his behavior, he has no idea why you aren't at work, you can calm down and figure out how to let him know what he did and that it ruins the workplace atmosphere for you.
There are about 1000 books currently in print dealing with workplace harassment. One of them is bound to have some tips as to how to approach this issue. It is a lot easier than the stories you hear from Susan. Her boss screams at everyone. Talk about a hostile environment workplace. No one likes working in her department. You are calming down. You search the world wide web for the best way to deal with your problem.
In the process you stumble across a website that states, "If you learn what's in "Work Laws Exposed" your boss knows that he or she won't be able to single you out for harassment anymore. Your boss knows that he or she won't be able to control you with yelling, or nit-picking or threats anymore. "
This sounds like the right solution for both of you. She could transform her hostile environment workplace into the kind of workplace you normally find yourself in. "Work Laws Exposed" can be found at Undercover Lawyer.
The site offers to teach you three strategies to protect yourself from being fired by a boss who has turned your job into a hostile environment workplace, how to keep your job without having to work with your abusive boss, a legal method to use to defeat unwarranted discipline and many other methods to help protect your job. Laura from Ohio writes, "all I can say is I read the entire book, and did step by step what chapter 3 outlined. The reactions were as you stated." If you want to learn more about employment law and your rights as an employee, this may be the right book for you.
