What are these losers rants doing in the recreational newsgroups?
They're not even amusing. Just sad.
efefvm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> Once I stopped. watching television and listening to the radio at the
end of
> 1990, "they" had to find other. ways of committing abuses. So they took
what
> must be for them a tried. and tested route; they get at you by
subversion of
> those around you. Since they wouldn't be able. to do that with my family
or
> friends, that meant getting at people in the workplace to be. their
> mouthpieces and do their. dirty work for them.
>
> They supplied my employers in Oxford. with details from what was going
on in
> my private life, and what I. and other people had said at my home and
> accommodation in Oxford. So people at work repeated verbatim. words
which
> had been said in. my home, and repeated what I'd been doing recently.
Often
> the most trivial things, the. ones from your domestic life, are the ones
> which hurt most. One manager in. particular at Oxford continuously
abused me
> for ten months. with verbal ***ual abuse, swearing, and threats to
terminate
> my employment. After ten months I was forced to seek psychiatric help.
and
> start taking medication, and was. away from work for two months. I spoke
> later with. a solicitor about what had happened at that company; he
advised
> it was only possible. to take action if you had left the company as a
result
> of harassment, and such. an action would have to be started very soon
after
> leaving.
>
> Over a year later the same manager picked. on another new worker, with
even
> more serious results; that employee tried to commit. suicide with an
> overdose. as a result of the ill-treatment, and was forced to leave his
job.
> But he didn't take. action against the company, either. Abuse at work is
> comparable to that elsewhere in. that tangible evidence is difficult to
> produce, and the abusers will always have their denials ready. when
> challenged. And even. if a court accepts what you say happened, it still
> remains to prove that abuse causes. the type of breakdown I had at the
end
> of 1992. In a recent case before a British. court, a former member of
the
> Army brought a case against others who had maltreated him. ten years
> previously. Although the court accepted. that abuse had occurred, it did
not
> agree that. depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied justice
to
> the. plaintiff.
>
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