Tech Friends, Let's Get Rid of Workplace Bullies
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Tech Friends, Let's Get Rid of Workplace Bullies
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Re: Tech Friends, Let's Get Rid of Workplace Bullies
#2Excellent - Like the author, I was a victim of Bullying too at the same place - but, I retaliated when the bully was directed to me and the line was crossed - spoke up defended myself from the bully
In the workplace - lets have a conversation not a confrontation
Re: Tech Friends, Let's Get Rid of Workplace Bullies
#3Excellent - Like the author, I was a victim of Bullying too at the same place - but, I retaliated when the bully was directed to me and the line was crossed - spoke up defended myself from the bully In the workplace - lets have a conversation not a confrontation
Absolutely agree with you on starting conversation. Both you, me and a lot of our tech friends can use our skills as armors and shields. Unfortunately, many of our colleagues are a little more vulnerable especially since most startups often do not have a full-fledge and empowered HR department. I hope that we can start speaking up more and coming into defense of these colleagues sooner to prevent workplace bullying from taking shape in the organizations we're a part of. Thank you again for speaking up, my friend!
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#4There seems to be a real push towards homogeneity in teams, and I've seen it lead to bullying of people with different skills.
At one point I was working with a guy who had a prototype of a complex clustering algorithm. He did a great job prototyping it in MatLab, but the company decided to have him implement a distributed version of it in C, and they pushed him unreasonably hard. I tried to convince them to leave him alone, since I and others had the skillset to get that part done, but they kept after him, and eventually killed the project and fired both of us.
This was at Autonomy; we all had a "now I get it" moment when the fraud news came out.
Re: Tech Friends, Let's Get Rid of Workplace Bullies
#5There seems to be a real push towards homogeneity in teams, and I've seen it lead to bullying of people with different skills. At one point I was working with a guy who had a prototype of a complex clustering algorithm. He did a great job prototyping it in MatLab, but the company decided to have him implement a distributed version of it in C, and they pushed him unreasonably hard. I tried to convince them to leave hi…
Doing tech, especially tech startups for a while and some day you wake up thinking to yourself: if we pool all our skills together, we could build the world we ought to have by the end of next 'sprint'--But why are we all stuck building sand castles after sand castles? Yeah, when the hivemind takes over and everyone is afraid to speak up, that's when we can no longer innovate. It's great to find like-minded team mates, it's not so great when people are afraid to speak their minds due to fear of being an outcast.