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Do You Know the 4 Key Steps to Taking Back Your Life from a Bully?

September 20, 2009 By 4 Comments
Learn to Take Back Your Life

Question: What are the four key steps to taking back your life from a bully? Answer: Listen to our interview with psychotherapist Dr. Ben Leichtling (pronounced Like-Ling).  Dr. Leichtling wrote a book about how to take back your life from a bully, and consults with companies on how to eliminate bullying from the workplace. Dr. Leichtling reveals in this interview his four key steps to breaking free of a bully.  He also gives invaluable advice on how to deal with the mental and physical trauma that bullies inflict.  This is one episode no one should miss. Podcast #11: Interview With Dr. Leichtling Dr. Leichtling was so generous with his time that we couldn't fit all of his helpful insights and ideas into the podcast, but it was simply too good "to leave on the cutting room … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Podcast, Retaliation Tagged With: abusive boss, Bully Boss, diabetes discrimination, employee rights, harassed at work, hostile work environment, Hostile Workplace, job harassment, retaliation at work
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Podcast #10: Bully Boss Creates Hostile Work Environment by Forbidding Bathroom Breaks!

August 12, 2009 By 3 Comments
No Bathroom Breaks

Don't Have iTunes on Your Computer? Free Download from Apple w/ easy install instructions. Main Segment In the Main Segment of Episode #10 we tackle the issue of "Bully Bosses Who Forbid Bathroom Breaks."  This craziness happens much more frequently than you may think.  Can you guess who the primary victims are? #1 Spanish radio station in Miami The radio show I mention during the show is 98.3.  My thanks to Frank, the Undercover Lawyer community member from Miami who got the book and called in to 98.3 to talk about it.  Thanks Frank! All Spanish UCL Site Now Launched: www.demandas-empleos.comNew Segment -- The Q & A: We also debut a new segment in Episode #10, the Q&A.  In you have a legal question about work that you think other listeners would be interested in, send … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Age Discrimination, Blog, Featured, Podcast, Signs You're Abused at Work, Videos Tagged With: abusive boss, diabetes, Discrimination, employee rights, harassment, hostile work environment, Hostile Work Place, Retaliation, sexual harassment
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When Your Bully Boss is Behind Closed Doors, Do You Want to Know What the Lawyers Are Telling Him?

July 21, 2009 By 8 Comments
Listening In on Your Bully Boss

In Episode #9 the Undercover Lawyer (Curt K.) reveals 10 things that bosses do to their employees that cause hostile work environment lawsuits. (Podcast Player below). Even defense lawyers get mad at bad bosses, because bad bosses cause lawsuits.  This is explosive information that big business pays top dollar for; Curt himself regularly charges companies $1,000+ for "How Not to Get Sued" seminars that cover this same material!  But now you get it for free, plus Curt's explanation of how employees can use this information for their advantage. In the Quick Tip Curt covers how the new Federal Bailout Program includes money that you get right now if you've lost your job.  It's the COBRA subsidy, which requires your employer to pay 65% of COBRA premiums, so that you pay only 35% of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Hostile Work Environment & Workplace Harassment, Podcast Tagged With: abusive boss, Bully Boss, employee rights, harassed at work, hostile work environment, Hostile Workplace, job harassment, retaliation at work
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Gradual Workplace Harassment Is Not Legal Harassment

July 2, 2009 By 6 Comments
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You complain to your manager or to H.R., and what do they tell you?  There's no evidence that you are putting up with an illegal hostile work environment.  But you are having trouble sleeping, you feel sick when you think about work, and even though you try not to you spend most of your time worrying about work, you think about little else. How can your boss or H.R. excuse this?  How can they possibly claim that nothing is going on? Acme Markets said that Gloria Nieves was just complaining about good old fashioned teasing among co-workers.  Some of it may have been insensitive, but Acme claimed that no one thing that happened to Gloria at the deli where she worked amounted to illegal harassment.  But Gloria knew differently.  She took Acme to court, where the court said even … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Discrimination, Featured, Hostile Work Environment & Workplace Harassment Tagged With: hostile work environment, job discrimination, job harassment, national origin discrimination, Workplace Harassment
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