This happens, quite a lot, more so than we’re, aware of! Translated…
“Ring, Ring, Ring!”, came the rushed phone rings, that’s, waken me up from my dreams, it was, two o’clock, in the DEAD of winter in February, and at this time of night, the call must be, from my coworker working the graveyard shift, who couldn’t, solve the problem online, calling for help.
“A doctor is so awful in the E.R., and I can’t hang up, we need this resolved right now!”, my coworker started shouting from the other end, “I’d had him have the patient to sign up for the next appointment as they paid the bills, but he just, refused to do it!”, I’d opened up the three way calls, solved the problems, and told the physician, that I shall deal with it as my first priority in the morning when I’m at work, but the doctor screamed, “I don’t care, you need to come in, and fix this situation, right now, or, I’ll have the patient file a complaint. And, when I’m on duty, there had, best not be ANY emergency patients coming in from your department!”, then, he’d, hung up abruptly.
In that time when online wasn’t on yet, there was, no way I can, connect to the systems of the hospital from home, and so, I can, rush to the hospital to handle it. And, with this sort of a hysterical doctor, what else was I, supposed to do, it’s just, that the memories of the night had, imprinted, deeply inside of my mind.
There would be, the mediations that the information department hosted, with the various departments, to try to resolve the issues, there was, a head of department who just go promoted from a manager position, I’d heard of how hard she is on her subordinates, and, I’d, seen it happen, in the meetings, she’d, pressed hard, to have everything to HER liking. And yet, all of us, are from separate departments, we’d not her subordinates, and we’d, designed the programs for everybody’s uses, the other departments are fighting, to get on our good sides, who DARED, speak down to us like her?
And, as I’d, prodded with the coworkers in her department, turned out, she was, awful to her subordinates, she’d, insulted them many times, but, for the sake of money, everybody, kept everything, piped down, it’s a wonder, every meeting, out comes, the guns, AND the knives!
and, this kind too…
In Vasquez’s “The Sound of Things Falling”, it had, “memories, sometimes, it served as a way we feel pity for those who are in pain”. Actually, despite who it’s happening to, workplace bullying are always, painful to recall. The bullies’ instinctive, ordinary, matter-of-fact actions, gazes, a rude act, a word of insult, it’d, caused that pain to get suppressed too deep inside the victims’ minds, and, after years of holding it in, there would be, the tragedies that may happen, like the stabbings of the operating room in Chenggong University Hospital, the board of trustees are, all under investigations, things like these, they don’t, happen overnight!
As for our department? There were those, who don’t have the skills, and those who are up on that high pedestal, because they were there longer, and, as it’d not related to our department, it’s NOT our business.
The movie, “North Country” with Charlize Theron, about female miners who’d become harassed long-term by the male coworkers, and she couldn’t, get her superiors to pay enough attention, and, she’d, gotten shunned by her fellow female coworkers, and, was taken to court. The bullying in the workplace, are like the narration of “Peter Pan”: this story happened a long time ago, and it will, happen again, in the future.
and also, this…
And in this case, the bullied felt helpless, because, there’s nothing that they can do, to change the situations, as they’re, at the bottom of the food chain at work, and, it doesn’t, just happen in the medical front, it’s, happening, everywhere, as we speak, there will always and forever BE, workplace bullying, because there are always going to be those who feel “hey, I’m better than all of you” or “I worked here longer”………