Thread by @ProfDFrancis

Great question from Pranev Sharma

Personally I have led a charmed life and never been bullied at work.

But as a TPD this is something I am determined to uncover and eradicate.

When I was a junior doctor, we always assumed that if anyone complained about anything "the old bastards will shaft you forever".

But now we once-registrars have become consultants, we realise we are the same people and

(a) Old gits don't actually shaft anyone - they can't be bothered and indeed have no levers for it: nobody cares what some old git says about someone, when making appointments.

(b) There are a vast number of young gits like me who were never maltreated and are horrified that anyone would have to suffer like that, and will be eager to fix the situation. We have absolutely NOTHING to gain by siding with bullies.

Why try to be friends with an evil person? It doesn't lead anywhere good.

And there are lots more consultants now than there used to be long ago. So there aren't "pivotal" people that make or break careers.

Much more important is that one's fellow Registrars don't think you are a knob.

Registrars talk to each other about registrars far more than consultants do, and are much free'er with their commentary.

Stay on the good side of your peers!

And report any old gits.

As TPDs what we can do is establish from more than one SpR that there is a problem, and then report it to the offender that "Almost all SpRs say that...", even if it is in fact 100%. That way every SpR can shrug and act blank.

Um, if any consultants reading this have been on the receiving and of an "Almost all SpRs say you are an old git," letter from me, please be reassured that in _your_ case it really _was_ ALMOST all.

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