Discrimination in the workplace - to complain or not?

Thanks @utopia - I even told them my thoughts on how support for me in the workplace could be achieved but I was just ignored. I think straight away I was put in the too hard basket and exclusion and isolation was the best way to deal with me. Unfortunately for all concerned now it ends in a court case. Putting issues like this in the public eye does get it out in the open and hopefully it helps others who find themselves in these situations. Too often we just get forced out of our jobs or made to suffer in silence.

....and the story continues. I'm now no longer at work. My doctor has put me on sick leave as the situation has become so toxic and I know the signs when I am at risk of self harm (or worse). I've been completely isolated and excluded, I'm left in an office all day by myself with nothing to do, all my tasks have been allocated to others but nothing has been said to me and I have been excommunicated by my colleagues and superiors. I met with my lawyers to try to get some progression but they're running into brick walls as well trying to deal with these people. They must think if they ignore it then it will just go away or I'll just resign or self-terminate and problem solved. I can't believe how purely evil these people are to engage in this psychological abuse of someone they are aware is mentally ill and has been suicidal. Keeping in mind this is a private healthcare provider who love spruiking their caring culture on the outside while tormenting staff on the inside. They would get some very real damage to their reputation if this was to become public knowledge and yet they can still be so arrogant to think they can treat people like this. Thanks for reading.

Someone please wish me luck... got a meeting tomorrow and I am so stressed I am shaking. I fully expect their lawyers to smash me tomorrow. I know they have engaged one of these large multi-national legal firms probably at great expense and there is no doubt that the plan is to break me. I honestly can't understand how they have thrown all their support behind the bullying manager. Do they not realise that a year from now it will be the same manager, same situation just a different person being victimised? Why can't they do the right thing?

My anxiety has been off the scale... I have had next to no sleep for so long and I am so run down. Please I just want some closure but I am so driven by a sense of justice and I have taken it this far I can't give up now. This is what has kept me going all these months when I know I have done nothing to deserve this treatment and victimisation. Thanks to everyone who has given me advice, it means so much to know there are people who listen and care.

Hi Dugga. You have done so well to get this far - you've already won. Just remember to breathe ....

If it helps at all, I took my employer to court last week and won a large settlement without expecting to, so times are a-changing - take heart! I went in with the attitude that I just wanted to have my say, and have someone listen to me. It worked.

Best of luck, and remember that whatever the outcome, you are a hero ....

Good luck @Former-Member 🤞🙏

great effort for standing up for yourself and others regardless of the outcome. Hopefully after tomorrow you'll be the one who can sleep at night! Look after yourself above all else and be proud. 💜🤗

Hi @Former-Member, good luck today with the meeting. Let us know how it goes. Please take as much sick-leave as you need for now... it sounds like you are really suffering. I admire your strength and your desire for justice.

I hope they offer you a huge pay-out, just so as you can be rid of these people, once and for all. They are no good!

I think you will find that with the vast majority of jobs that your loyalty to the company counts for nothing in the end. The fact that they are in health-care makes no difference... these people are often ruthless and money-hungry. Health-care is a multi-billion dollar business. The people at the top of these companies are not caring/sharing individuals working for the greater good of man-kind... they are businessmen.

I have worked in hospitals most of my adult life, both public and private hospitals, and across the board I found that those in management were only interested in the triple bottom line. (Some of them got off on power trips, as well.) None of them were compassionate people and they generally had no respect for their staff.

I suppose I might have a skewed view, but there you have it. It is very interesting that not one of your fellow employees came forward to support you when you were alone and working in isolation after being stone-walled. Shows something, doesn't it?

Please just listen to your lawyer and let them speak for you, when-ever possible. If you can get out of these type of meetings with a note from your doctor, then please do! Just take care of yourself first and foremost.