Here is a thread containing 10 Clues the Eliminative Lust of Mobbing is Present.
I invite you to comment with evidence from the past 4 years you feel applies.
(Report any abuse).
(Administrative Mobbing at the University of Toronto, Westhues, 2004)
I invite you to comment with evidence from the past 4 years you feel applies.
(Report any abuse).
(Administrative Mobbing at the University of Toronto, Westhues, 2004)
1. The target is a popular
A high-achieving person and solid performer. Popularity of the television show Survivor illustrates this – when a possible winner would be voted off the island because their skills and prowess made them ‘a threat’.
A high-achieving person and solid performer. Popularity of the television show Survivor illustrates this – when a possible winner would be voted off the island because their skills and prowess made them ‘a threat’.
2. Lack of due process
Sophisticated eliminators make a show of appearing scrupulously fair, but vigilant outsiders can usually see through it.
Sophisticated eliminators make a show of appearing scrupulously fair, but vigilant outsiders can usually see through it.
3. Odd timing
Taking someone by surprise is a tactic of war, not respectful coexistence. Things unexpected, unannounced reduce the odds of the target mounting a successful defense.
Taking someone by surprise is a tactic of war, not respectful coexistence. Things unexpected, unannounced reduce the odds of the target mounting a successful defense.
4. Resistance to external review
Impassioned excluders want nothing more than that the higher authority and outside agencies stay out of the matter. “We can handle this ourselves.”
Impassioned excluders want nothing more than that the higher authority and outside agencies stay out of the matter. “We can handle this ourselves.”
5. Secrecy
Eliminators prefer to keep their proceedings confidential, cloaked. Against this, Justice Louis Brandeis offered the sage advice that sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Eliminators prefer to keep their proceedings confidential, cloaked. Against this, Justice Louis Brandeis offered the sage advice that sunlight is the best disinfectant.
6. Unanimity
The loss of diverse opinion is a compelling indication the eliminative fury has been unleashed. When all agree on the need to put someone down, when they all demand it.
The loss of diverse opinion is a compelling indication the eliminative fury has been unleashed. When all agree on the need to put someone down, when they all demand it.
7. Fuzzy charges
Real or imagined sins are added up to necessitate the target’s ouster.
Real or imagined sins are added up to necessitate the target’s ouster.
8. Prior marginalization
Evidence of the target being marginalized, ostracized, and treated with contempt before the offenses cited as grounds for formal expulsion and humiliation.
Evidence of the target being marginalized, ostracized, and treated with contempt before the offenses cited as grounds for formal expulsion and humiliation.
9. Impassioned rhetoric
The more fervent and overwrought the language used against the target, the less likely is the basis for exclusion anything but a collective will to destroy. Preposterous, paranoid, crazy, or even a ‘difficult person’ are all used to great effect.
The more fervent and overwrought the language used against the target, the less likely is the basis for exclusion anything but a collective will to destroy. Preposterous, paranoid, crazy, or even a ‘difficult person’ are all used to great effect.
10. Back-biting
Malicious gossip and whispering campaigns behind a person’s back are common attributes of elimination processes. The usual foundation of formal sanctions is the circulation of rumors and stories to discredit the target. “Did you hear what she did last week?”
Malicious gossip and whispering campaigns behind a person’s back are common attributes of elimination processes. The usual foundation of formal sanctions is the circulation of rumors and stories to discredit the target. “Did you hear what she did last week?”
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