Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.giapponese
Titolo: M.I,5-Perse cution - harassment  at w ork

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Once I stopped watching television and listening to the radio at the end. of
1990, "they" had. to find other ways of committing abuses. So they took what
must be for them a tried and tested route; they get at you. by subversion of
those around you. Since they wouldn't be able to do that with my family. or
friends, that meant getting at people. in the workplace to be their
mouthpieces and do. their dirty work for them.
They supplied my employers in Oxford with details from. what was going on in
my private life, and what I. and other people had said at my home and
accommodation in Oxford. So people at work repeated verbatim. words which
had been said in my home, and repeated what I'd. been doing recently. Often
the. most trivial things, the ones from your domestic life, are the ones
which hurt most.. One manager in particular at Oxford continuously abused me
for ten months with verbal sexual abuse, swearing, and threats to. terminate
my employment. After ten months I was forced to seek psychiatric help. and
start. taking medication, and was away from work for two months. I spoke
later with a solicitor about what had happened at that. company; he advised
it was only possible to take action if you. had left the company as a result
of harassment, and such an action would. have to be started very soon after
leaving.
Over a year later the same manager picked. on another new worker, with even
more serious results; that employee tried to commit suicide with. an
overdose as a result of the ill-treatment, and was forced. to leave his job.
But he didn't take action against the company,. either. Abuse at work is
comparable to that elsewhere in that tangible evidence is. difficult to
produce, and. the abusers will always have their denials ready when
challenged. And even. if a court accepts what you say happened, it still
remains to prove that abuse causes the type of breakdown. I had at the end
of 1992. In a recent. case before a British court, a former member of the
Army. brought a case against others who had maltreated him ten years
previously. Although the court accepted that abuse had occurred,. it did not
agree that depressive illness. necessarily followed, and denied justice to
the. plaintiff.
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have me
honour a man clothed in brocade and followed by seven or eight lackeys! Why!
He will have me thrashed, if I do not salute him. This custom is a farce. It
is the same with a horse in fine trappings in comparison with another!
Montaigne is a fool not to see what difference there is, to wonder at our
finding any, and to ask the reason. "Indeed," says he, "how comes it,"
etc....
316. Sound opinions of the people.--To be spruce is not altogether foolish,
for it proves that a great number of people work for one. It shows by one's
hair, that one has a valet, a perfumer, etc., by one's band, thread,
lace,... etc. Now it is not merely superficial nor merely outward show to
have many arms at command. The more arms one has, the more powerful one is.
To be spruce is to show one's power.
317. Deference means, "Put yourself to inconvenience." This is apparently
silly, but is quite right. For it is to say, "I would indeed put myself to
inconvenience if you required it, since indeed I do so when it is of no
service to you." Deference further serves to distinguish the great. Now if
deference was displayed by sitting in an arm-chair, we should show deference
to everybody, and so no distinction would be made; but, being put to
inconvenience, we distinguish very well.
318. He has four lackeys