Lived Experience Forum

[Neb]

Haha......on bullying, Ye gods! Now nursing specialised in workplace bullying, if it was an Olympic event the profession would have taken first place for decades. There was one workplace who had a mandatory in service on workplace bullying, the upper management went to an in service on " how to bully better"! There would be innuendo, accusations where you could not identify one's accuser....it was like fighting fog. Middle management got escorted off the campus with security guards?! Education in service work was stolen from you. And then there was the collective bargaining stuff where as a worker who attended them, your name was collected and wh at a surprise.....within a year you were gone. Long service leave coming up, management endeavoured to rid the person by intimidation and nastiness. I had a number of chemical high intake as a direct result of these practices. I could write a book ,

[Cazzie]

We got a first hand look at how difficult they could make things. The Police Association hired a solicitor to make sure my husband got all his entitlements and was retired HOD. This solicitor also suggested a court challenge would be in order so we went with him. Sixteen psychiatrists and clinical psychologists later we got a settlement we could live with.
Because I too worked for the NSW government I had a work diary and was in the habit of documenting my life. Several of my husband's senior officers came to regret my habit of diarising all my interactions with authority. My notes were all made contemporaneously. Some were even witnessed, signed and dated by my boss. The pen really is mightier than the sword when wielded correctly.

[Loopy]

Sandy, I think it is time everybody followed your lead as self preservation as well as protection. Well done.

[Loopy]

Cazzy, " Cunning like a fox" love it. I had to do all my own dirty work the handed it to the best QC in Tasmania. After the case was won, settled out of court, the QC got a Government job so as to keep him under control. My association gave me a grant then sued for the return of the grant. It was run by a society like a "stone mason".

[Loopy]

Kristin, I thank you for your comments. Nothing gets my back up more than injustice, sick or not, I wanted my day in court and nothing, short of lack of breath, that was also suggested, was going to stop me they waved the white flag because I was going to lift the roof off the department. I won the case but lost the battle and a life, family and sanity. Was it worth it??? don't really know or care anymore. This great forum is a help to me and I hope that anybody in the same situation can be helped.

[kristin]

Well done Cazzie,

What a champion advocate and support you have been for your husband.

Kind regards,

Kristin

[kristin]

Hi Loopy,

I'm totally with you on the injustice - it enrages me like nothing elso - talk about triggers! I particularly hate it when people in positions of power and influence use the law to bully people out of their rights. But I hear what you are saying about the high price of justice.

We could have sued the private hospital, where my paternal grandmother died, for malpractice and negligence just for starters. I told the rest of the family it wouldn't bring her back and it would prolong the trauma for us. Did I do the right thing by us and her? I don't know.

Kind regards,

Kristin

BTW - change of pic?

[Loopy]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-06/former-police-officer-bill-rollinson-of-hobart/5792444 via @ABCNews.

Actual story on ABC. Not sure I am ok with it, but, it's done now.

[Loopy]

Crystal, there is not much I like about myself but I get astrange feeling after I have helped, in their words, someone that is looking for answers. After all these years being a sufferer of PTSD I figure I know the feelings, the highs and lows and the amount of general knowledge that Im have gleened from the net about the subject. I am an expert only about my situation but if it make someone else feel better by listening to my ramblings well and good. I do not attempt to advise but I tell them how I cope, if that is the work, with this incideous illness. There are so many wonderful ideas out thereregarding cures rthat is why so many Viet Vets are still suffering as well as those in other wars that have fallen victim to it. I met a vet from Afganistan in a psych hospital, he was Irish, which didn't help much, who was an absolute wreck. This guy had a wacky sense of humour which, in his words, helped cover up his true feelings. We would talk for hours about nothing, but that in itself was good therapy. He was a very genuine and caring man and we ended up as super pals.

[Loopy]

Hi all, for some reason I typed in PTSD into youtube and if you could read some of the bogan comments, not about the Police and PTSD but about the "so called" #@$$%^%$ coppers very few words of compassion, symathy. All I wish is that those who are disbelievers could spend a week in a patrol car and just experience some of the crap emergency workers face and that icludes, nurses, ambos and firies. No matter what without them we would all be in that s street. Whilst doing my job I was spat at, abused, missile thrown at me and ignored by the depsrtment whose position it was to protect their workers, here is the little "T" they still do not give a shit.

loopy