Is your boss a bully?

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Re: Diversity

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Yet another plea for diversity, but what we need is time and tolerance as a company. Time to do the experiment, tolerance to allow the experiment to take place and then robust critique. It’s the western tradition. I could buy diversity of culture in a company if diversity of thought equated to diversity of culture. Is history not taught any longer? The Persian, Greek, Roman, Renaissance and Enlightenment cultures moved the world forward due to the accretion of like minded thinkers prepared to critique the ideas of that culture not by saying, sorry people cant answer that question got to attract a whole new diverse culture. In short the critical problems once identified need to be broadened to the problem solving culture that already exists and solution finder rewarded
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And where are the empires of these forward thinkers today? Apparently their forward thinking was actually foolish thinking.
 






Re: Diversity

Anonymous said:
Yet another plea for diversity, but what we need is time and tolerance as a company. Time to do the experiment, tolerance to allow the experiment to take place and then robust critique. It’s the western tradition. I could buy diversity of culture in a company if diversity of thought equated to diversity of culture. Is history not taught any longer? The Persian, Greek, Roman, Renaissance and Enlightenment cultures moved the world forward due to the accretion of like minded thinkers prepared to critique the ideas of that culture not by saying, sorry people cant answer that question got to attract a whole new diverse culture. In short the critical problems once identified need to be broadened to the problem solving culture that already exists and solution finder rewarded
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The truth is that the diversity was Catholic vs. Protestant, and people were literally killing each other over silly doctrines, just as is done internally at Lilly all the time. These things cannot be discussed outside a 5 mile radius of the workplace, but you know they exist. Finis!
 


















Anonymous said:
Most schools have anti bully programs as they have learned lessons from school shooting and other violence that bullying yields violence and tragedy. Bullys are sent home from school. It seems like the corporate world would learn from the schools. Instead Lilly selects bully to be management and encourages supervisors to bully people and make their lives miserable to encourage people to leave.

Given the following definition, there are a lot of bullies at Lilly. They are the survivors at Lilly.

bul·ly1    
[bool-ee] Show IPA
noun, plural -lies, verb, -lied, -ly·ing, adjective, interjection
–noun
1.
a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
2.
Archaic . a man hired to do violence.
3.
Obsolete . a pimp; procurer.
4.
Obsolete . good friend; good fellow.
5.
Obsolete . sweetheart; darling.
–verb (used with object)
6.
to act the bully toward; intimidate; domineer.
–verb (used without object)
7.
to be loudly arrogant and overbearing.
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Dan Boehm
 


















Anonymous said:
Interesting! You would have to be the ultimate wuss to be intimidated by this little cockroach.
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no one has to be actually intimidated for him to still be a bully.

7. to be loudly arrogant and overbearing.

not sure why GBIP would keep him around. He's just managing a help desk. I guess no one else would want to do that.
 






























Tom since his time in the Philippines and in the Pacific Northwest before that, was a festering turd of a man who always put himself first;could not be trusted;and lacked the capacity to empathize with and relate to those who worked for him.
The fact that he is helping run Lilly into the ground is no surprise: they both deserve each other in their complete lack of morals an ethics. "Our people are our most valuable resource". Does that one sound familiar ? What a sham...
 






Re: Diversity

Anonymous said:
Yet another plea for diversity, but what we need is time and tolerance as a company. Time to do the experiment, tolerance to allow the experiment to take place and then robust critique. It’s the western tradition. I could buy diversity of culture in a company if diversity of thought equated to diversity of culture. Is history not taught any longer? The Persian, Greek, Roman, Renaissance and Enlightenment cultures moved the world forward due to the accretion of like minded thinkers prepared to critique the ideas of that culture not by saying, sorry people cant answer that question got to attract a whole new diverse culture. In short the critical problems once identified need to be broadened to the problem solving culture that already exists and solution finder rewarded
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Look up the name Vauhn Bryson sometime....
 












I love how people say comments are from a "disgruntled" employee: Usually it is more spot on and the truth then people care to recognize, and some people feel that it needs to be discredited.
Bullies are just that, regardless of the company or position. If the shoe fits......
 






Without whistleblowers, cigarettes would still be sold to minors and toddlers. Thanks to a Dr. Jeffrey Wigand who did not take no to a bully corporate world.

Without whistleblowers, GE nuclear power plants would be still operated prior to Three Miles Island safety rules - Thanks to "GE Three": Gregory C. Minor, Richard B. Hubbard, and Dale G. Bridenbaugh, who did not succumb to GE corporate bullying.

Without wishtleblowing, Enron would still be operating the Ponzi scheme. Thanks to Sherron Watkins, a woman, who did not take a fųck from Ken Lay and his corporate and governmental ponziers. She faced the bullies head on and we learnt about accounting practices at Enron.

Without Jamie Sheller, Lilly would still be old boys club marketing Zyprexa for off label use and violating every ethics in the Red Book. Sheller and "Lilly Six" did not take Lilly coprophagic corporate bullies to be pussied away.

These are some of the examples of people who were bullied and were not disgruntled in public eye, legal system, corporate ethics, or by law-loving people around the globe.
 












<Another story on bullying: DON'T BE A VICTIM TO A BULLY. ACT NOW. STOP THE BULLY

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-bullying-family-violence-20110422,0,6156974.story

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times

April 22, 2011, 12:11 p.m.
A new study underscores something researchers have known for some time with regard to bullying: that kids involved with it are more likely to display risk factors such as poor grades and drug and alcohol use.

They're also more likely to have witnessed or been directly involved in violence within their families, researchers reported -- a link that previously had been established only in smaller studies.

The bullying report was published Thursday in the Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. It was based on the Massachusetts Youth Health Survey, an anonymous survey of nearly 6,000 public middle and high school students conducted in January 2009.

In addition to a panel of questions about their grades, health, drug use and violence in their families and more, the Massachusetts students were asked two questions about bullying -- were they perpetrators of bullying and were they victims of bullying? Based on their answers, kids were divided into four groups: bullies (perpetrators only), bully-victims (those who inflicted and received abuse), victims and "neither" (kids who weren't involved with bullying at all.)

The survey found that 43.9% of middle school respondents were affected by bullying and 30.5% of high school respondents. The odds for most of the risk factors for bullying considered by the survey (such as drinking, or mental health problems) were "significantly elevated" for bullies, victims and bully-victims. Bully-victims in middle and high school were more than three times as likely to report seriously considering suicide, intentionally injuring themselves, being physically hurt by a family member and witnessing violence in their family. They were more likely to have been exposed to family violence than bullies, who in turn were more likely to have been exposed than victims, who in turn were more likely to have been exposed than kids who were neither bullies nor victims, the survey reported.

The authors urged states to continue their work on bullying prevention.

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Click here for the full report from the Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The Centers for Disease Control has its own anti-bullying initiative: STRYVE, or Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere.

President Obama hosted a bullying conference at the White House last month. Here's a Booster Shots report on that conference.
 






Some might say the PM itself is the "carte blanche" of bullying.

If only managers didn't have low testosterone, they could be manly and honest.

Do YOU have low testosterone?
 






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