It is very unfortunate how employers are taking advantage of today’s economy to harass and abuse employees. There are many forms of silent abuse in the workplace that people are suffering, e.g. employees that now are doing the job of 2 or even 3 people for the same pay, usually these employees tend to stay late or start early (not on the clock/no overtime) at work to finish their work load, many employers are using the term “thank God that we have jobs” when employees bring formal complaints, here is another example of how a boss will answer to a complaint “there is a line of people out there willing to do your job I can show you the 100’s applications we have”. Some other employers will put you on “salary” not paying you for over time and / or extra work, but yet if you were to miss a half day a full day or there is a holiday you will not get paid, lots of employers choose this option because they know is for their own benefit, employees finish their work schedule at the office but they will bring work home to not get yell.
Here are listed some silent work abuse.
· No recognition of an outstanding job.
· Cursing and ignoring.
· Dirty looks.
· Letting other employees interfere with job tasks.
· Allowing any type of harassment from coworkers.
· Derogatory comments.
· Making you do tasks or putting workloads they know you can’t handle to later bring you down.
· Making you think that you don’t have any more options “you are stock here”.
· Attributing your ideas to themselves or others.
· Not listening to realistic ideas or suggestions for a better job performance.
· Talk down to you in front of others or meetings.
· No matter how good or how hard you work, your work is never good enough.
· Basic needs are not met or you are blamed for expressing these needs.