From: fvmeim on
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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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From: Robert Morpheal on
On Jan 2, 5:37 am, fvm...(a)yahoo.com wrote:
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> -= harassment. at work -=
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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.
>
> 2682



Amusing paranoia, but it isn't poetry.

Had to say that. The words were put into my head and I had to say
that.

Cheers.

R. M.