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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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Curt’s Article About Hostile Work Environment Wins Award For Best New Hub!

July 6, 2009 By 5 Comments
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Curt now has EIGHT powerful articles on Hubpages, each one contains information you should not be with out in dealing with a bad boss or hostile work environment. One article was nominated for "Hub Nugget", meaning Best New Article -- and it won!  Thanks to everyone who took time to vote for the article, "Hostile Work Environment -- Why HR Doesn't Care About You". Here's a link to the article if you haven't seen it, with links to the other 7 articles (or "Hubs") after … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hostile Work Environment & Workplace Harassment, Signs You're Abused at Work Tagged With: Abused at work, abusive boss, Bully Boss, harassed at work, hostile work environment, Hostile Work Place, Workplace Harassment
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The Abusive Boss Who Got Sued For “Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress”

June 16, 2009 By 13 Comments

Have you felt emotional distress at work because of the abusive way your boss treats you? Many of the people who contact me for help in dealing with a bully boss feel this way, and they want to sue their boss in court for all the workplace abuse he or she has inflicted. When someone like this tells me they want to sue, the first thing they say is that their boss caused “a hostile work environment.” (If you still think you can sue for a hostile work environment, you need to sign up for my 7 Free Work Law Secrets Email Course). The second thing people want to sue for is “intentional infliction of emotional distress.” This also rarely works, and I don't advise pursuing it, but... ...but a women named Gina Strong in Washington State recently has some success suing her boss for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bad Boss, Featured, Hostile Work Environment & Workplace Harassment, Legal Strategies Tagged With: Add new tag, Bully Boss, hostile work environment, negligent infliction of emotional distress
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You Are Not Alone in Dealing with an Abusive Boss

March 17, 2009 By 4 Comments
Not Alone

One of the things I've tried to emphasize and acheive with UndercoverLawyer.com is convincing people that they are not alone in their pain.  Thousands, if not millions, of people across our country suffer each day at work as they labor under an abusive and hostile boss.  Many people blame themselves.  Other victims of bullying management simply hunker down alone, unaware of how many other people share their plight. The wide spread nature of discrimination at work snuck into a couple of headlines this week in two high profile media outlets, bringing much needed publicity to the issue of hostile work environments with particular emphasis on age discrimination. The first article appeared in the Wall Street Journal's "Personal Journal" section, titled "More Workers Cite Age Bias After … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Age Discrimination, Featured Tagged With: Age Discrimination, Bully Boss, hostile work environment
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The Abusive Boss Who Lost in Court

February 2, 2009 By 5 Comments

Download PDF Transcript Abusive bullying boss ruining your work? You need to hear about Joe. Joe is a hospital perfusionist (the person who operates the heart-lung machine during an open heart surgery).  Well Joe's boss, a surgeon, yelled at Joe, cussed at Joe, shook his fist and threatened Joe's job. Joe got sick.  Literally sick.  As in having to go to his doctor and get anxiety medication, dreading every single work day morning type of sick. Joe didn't just turn the tables on his boss, Joe freakin' flipped the tables over.  Here's how: The Bully-Boss Surgeon Joe Doescher's "boss" was a cardiovascular surgeon named Dr. Daniel Raess. Dr. Raess behavior included yelling, screaming, and swearing at Joe with "clenched fists, piercing eyes, beet-red face, [and] popping … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bad Boss, Featured, Hostile Work Environment & Workplace Harassment, Podcast Tagged With: Bully Boss, hostile work environment, job harassment, Podcast
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10 Steps of Walking the Plank Toward Termination: STEP 4 Your Boss Switches From Harassing You In-Person to Harassing You In Writing

October 23, 2008 By 1 Comment

When your boss goes to Human Resources and asks "Can I fire this employee right now?", do you know what the H.R. Rep always answers?  H.R. says, "What documentation do you have that shows your employee is not doing their job?" You know what happens next?  Your boss looks down at his or her own feet, and their face starts turning red.  Then they look back up at the H.R. Person and say something like "Goddamnit, don't we have at-will employment in this state?!  It used to be if someone didn't do their job they got fired!  Plain and simple.  How come all you ever say is 'no'?  Why don't you ever help us get things done around here, instead of just putting up road blocks all the time?!" The H.R. Rep responds to this tirade with something like, "I take it you have done no … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bad Boss, Featured, Legal Strategies Tagged With: Bully Boss, fired, hostile work environment, Layoffs, termination
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Does Your Boss or Co-Worker Create Problems To Solve and Take Credit For the Solution?

September 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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Many of the people who contact me for help with a stressful workplace are dealing with a new supervisor who is causing chaos in the employee's formerly peaceful workplace.  Why does a new supervisor feel the need to upset everything and everyone? To look good. That's right, to look good by fixing a big mess.  And don't think the supervisor will take responsibility for causing the big mess.  The employees who "can't accept new ideas" will get the blame. New supervisors are under a lot pressure to look good fast; they need to demonstrate that they deserved to be hired or promoted; they desperately want to show their own boss that he/she "made the right decision" in choosing who got the open management spot. A Wall Street Journal article touches on this scenario (the WSJ piece … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bad Boss, Featured Tagged With: Bad Boss, Bully Boss, Bully Co-worker, hostile work environment, job harassment, new supervisor
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Age Discrimination or Disciplinary Policy Exception: Why Does the Text Message Generation Get More Chances?

July 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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Does your company state that it will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, color, nationality, disability or gender?  Does your company also have a written progressive disciplinary policy? Do your supervisors always follow each step of the progressive discipline policy?  A new court ruling says that if they don't, you could successfully sue and win significant money damages pursuant to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). The Real Case of Cynthia and Leann: Cynthia Kildoo and Leann Richter worked as retail sales associates (RSA's) at a Cellular One store. Both were over 40. The company set specific sales quotas for its RSAs.  For those who failed to meet their quotas, like Cynthia and Leann, Cellular One instructed its store managers to follow its written … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Age Discrimination, Legal Strategies Tagged With: Age Discrimination, Bad Boss, Bully Boss, Hostile Work Environment & Workplace Harassment
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10 Signs You Are Bullied and Abused at Work

May 14, 2008 By 7 Comments
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Are You Bullied At Your Workplace? Did you know that experts estimate more than one in three U.S. workers have been mistreated severely enough at work that their health has been damaged? That’s 54 million people! This is according to a 2007 Zogby International survey. Many employees privately complain that their company won’t stop bullying bosses or retrain them to treat employees with respect. It may be easier to ignore the problem of abusive supervisors, but in the end the company will lose money from its passive approach to this workplace problem. Companies that do not address the problem of workplace bullies do pay a price. Such companies suffer higher employee turnover, higher absenteeism, and more frequent workers compensation claims. Furthermore, a severe bully boss will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Signs You're Abused at Work Tagged With: Bully Boss, Hostile Work Place, Signs You're Abused
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